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Health and Medical Information
Here are some tips in finding health and medical information,
when you visit your local library. There are also some
websites listed, that are worth trying out.
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Search the Library Catalogue
Diseases
Do a word search using the name of the disease or condition.
Most books on diseases can be found at the following call numbers:
612 - 619. Anatomy and how the body works
Look on the Library shelves under 610 - 612.
Biology
Look on the Library shelves in the 570s.
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Check the reference collection
Most of these are located at Bega Library, but
check branch library's reference collection at the same call
numbers. We hold Mosby's Medical, Nursing and
Allied Health Dictionary (R610.3) Blacks's
Medical Dictionary (R610.03) Gale Encyclopaedia
of Alternative Medicine (R615.503) Atlas of Human
anatomy (R611.0222) Gray's Anatomy (R611)
Dictionary of Medical Acronyms and Abbreviations 9R610.148)
Textbook of Diabetes (R16.462) Mental Health Desk
Reference (R616.8914) Cancer Dictionary
(R616.994003) Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and
Laboratory Tests (R616.0756) Australian Red Cross
First Aid (R616.0252) A Primer on Drug Action
(R616.78) Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide (R615)
Aust. NZ Nursing Drug Handbook (R616.10994)
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Websites
Gale Health and Wellness Resource Centre :
includes access to some full text information, such as articles and
excerpts from dictionaries and encyclopaedias. Accessible from
Member Services from Search the Catalogue. Once in Member
Services, click on Databases. PubMed
(National Library of Medicine, US). Advanced Medline
searching. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
Internet Grateful Med (National Library of
medicine, USA) - Free online version of Medline.
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov
NOAH : New York Online Access to Health
http://www.noah-health.org
Provides access to high quality consumer health information.
Full text Drug information @ Your Local Library
http://www.druginfo.sl.nsw.gov.au
A joint initiative of the State Library of NSW and the NSW
Premiers Department as part of the Community Drug Information
Strategy. Operates as a gateway to other websites on illicit
drugs.
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The Bega Library also holds a
small reference book and pamphlet collection on drugs as
part of the above initiative. Located opposite the
photocopier.
Please ask for assistance. |
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Magazines
The Bega Library subscribes to Choice Magazi9ne,
which often includes articles on health related matters. An
index is published each year.
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Fill out a Reference Referral form
Your request for information will be sent to the
Library's Reference Librarian. All requests are treated with
confidentiality. Reference Request Form
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All information requests are treated
with confidentiality
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Library Staff do not provide any
opinions or advice
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If you cannot find what you are looking
for, please ask a Library Staff Member
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What
we ask of him is, that he should
find out for us more than
we can find out for ourselves ... attributed to Arthur Symons
(1865-1945),
British poet, critic.
Columbia World of Quotations, 1996. This page was last
Revised:
July 08, 2008 |
