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Al-Nahrain
College of Medicine Library was founded in 1987 to
achieve the main objective; to obtain sources and organizing and processing
information and ensure easy accessibility through: Loan services for all
teaching staff members, medical personnel, graduate, and undergraduate students
of this college.Using of computer in the processes of search for scientific
resources through the global information databases Medline and the local
information rules (two bases of books + periodicals specialized with theccollectibles
of the library).
Providing scientific departments with lists of modern books that reach to the
library periodically.
Making the necessary contacts with the competent libraries, information
institutions, and organizations to benefit from their services and to exchange
information.
Participation in courses and seminars inside and outside Iraq in order to keep
pace with scientific developments in the field of library and information.
Central
Library Sections
Technical Services Division
This division of the
library Includes books section and, periodicals. Also, it provides the library
with organizing, cataloging, and classifying books, periodicals, reports,
theses and documents. It has a construction of manual cardsbibliography andautomatic bibliography within the well-known
system (Winisis) with the
provision of loan services and issuing bibliographic information leaflet about new books, for the library
contains(34,500) medical book
and(1450) medical periodical titles .
Department of Information
The Division includes automatic search
section depending on the medical base (Medline) including
extractsof published research since 1966. Also, it includes the sectionof laserdiscs
Library which contains300 discs of various medical topics of books, periodicals
and other documents. Department
of Free Education
This
department includes all textbooks distributed to the college teaching staff members,
graduate ,and undergraduate students withupdated old editionsannually.
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