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Library Facilities

University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria


The Library of the Health Sciences of the University of Illinois at Peoria, located three blocks from OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, offers residents 56,000 volumes (monographs and bound journals) and 1,600 audiovisual titles and subscribes to over 750 journal titles. In addition, it offers on-line access to a variety of databases including Medline and Ovid, full-text core journals. The curriculum- and clinical-centered collection supports basic science research in neurology and clinical neurology research programs. There are 51 neurology subscriptions, 15 of which are current issues available on a one-week basis; and there is an interlibrary loan system. This library is a unit of the University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences, one of the largest medical libraries in the United States.

OSF Saint Francis Medical Center

The medical library at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center has over 6,500 monograph volumes, 12,000 bound journal volumes, 700 journal titles, and 1,800 audiovisual units, with an especially strong neurology collection. The Library and Resource Center also has CD-ROM access to various programs as well as Internet access. The Library participates in interlibrary borrowing and lending, with same-day service for urgent article requests.

The Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery maintain a library which subscribes to 25 of the English language journals in Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Neuroradiology and some basic science journals. There is also a large number of monographs and textbooks.

The Residency Program Director has numerous textbooks and journals which are available to the residents, and there is also a library in the Neurology outpatient clinic. Many computers are also available for resident use.