Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences (LHL)

The UAB Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences (LHL), established in 1945, is the largest biomedical library in Alabama and one of the leading such libraries in the South. The Library offers a variety of services and information through its website located at: http://www.uab.edu/lister/. Access to electronic resources is available across campus and remotely to authorized users. The library catalog is available from the web site and can be searched to find print, electronic, and media holdings.

The Library provides a variety of reference and educational services plus extensive educational opportunities through one-on-one instruction at point of need or in scheduled workshops on using library resources or searching for information. To contact the library for assistance, see http://www.uab.edu/lister/qpask/.

Other library services include interlibrary loans, self-service photocopying, and photocopy delivery service. Within the Library are approximately 60 public workstations plus a 30-seat electronic classroom. Networked laser printers are available throughout. For information about service prices, see http://www.uab.edu/lister/about/prices/prices.htm.

LHL provides interlibrary loan services through cooperative agreements with state, regional, national, and international libraries to access books and journals that it does not own. Requests are accepted through ILLiad (https://uablh.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/logon.html), a web based request management tool.

The Library is open for 94.5 hours per week. The hours of operation are as follows:

Monday - Thursday 7:00AM -- 11:00PM

Friday 7:00AM -- 7:00PM

Saturday 9:30AM -- 6:00PM

Sunday 12:00PM -- 10:00PM

In addition, it serves as a Resource Library in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine for the Southeastern/Atlantic region. The Library’s collections span seven centuries of knowledge from the nearly thirteen thousand old and rare books, including over 30 printed before 1501, to electronic textbooks and full-text journals. It holds books, bound journals, and other media that total approximately 323,000 volumes; access to 28,405 unique electronic journal subscriptions; and an increasing number of electronic resources (including 936 electronic e-books).

Its present structure, built in 1971, underwent a major expansion and renovation project in the spring of 1997. Approximately 52 full time staff members, including 18 faculty librarians, staff the Library. Available are eight group study rooms which also contain a computer to assist with group projects.

Lister Hill Library at UAB University Hospital (West Pavilion) is a branch library which maintains a non-circulating core collection of reference books and a collection of approximately 100 of the most frequently used clinical journals from the past five years. Users may search the online catalog and LHL databases or may place requests for mediated online searches. Photocopy machines are provided and photocopy requests are taken for materials housed in LHL. More information on this branch may be found at http://www.uab.edu/lister/wpweb.

UAB Historical Collections. The Reynolds Historical Library, Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences and the UAB Archives together comprise UAB Historical Collections. The Reynolds Historical Library represents a nationally respected collection of rare and important books, manuscripts, and artifacts in the medical sciences. Contained in this collection are 33 books printed before 1501 and a number of other valuable books, as well as original letters from George and Martha Washington, Louis Pasteur, Florence Nightingale, and others. The Reynolds Historical Library also includes the Arnold G. Diethelm Civil War Medicine Collection, one of the preeminent resources of its kind in the United States. The Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences was established to document the growth and development of education, research, and practice in the field of the health sciences in Alabama. The UAB Archives is the official repository for the records of the University and also collects manuscript materials that document the history of the health sciences. More information about the historical collections can be found at http://www.uab.edu/historical/.

The Kirklin Clinic Patient Resource Library. LHL faculty help to staff the Patient Resource Library, located on the 2^nd floor of The Kirklin Clinic. The mission of the Library is to “provide quick and easy access to medical information that is current, accurate and easy to understand.”

Approved by: T. Scott Plutchak, MLS, Director

Date: September 20, 2007

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