Card catalogue records are being added to the machine readable catalogue at a rapid pace. The faculty and graduated reading rooms are accessible to non-CMU medical professionals with academic status equal to or higher than attending physician. These reading rooms offer open access to biomedical journals, authoritative international indexing services published within the last twenty years, and foreign books published within the last five. With the lelp of library staff users can have access to the journals and microfilms from the earlier years which are kept in closed stacks. Reference books in various languages are available in a separted room in this area.
Reference material is available only for in-library use.
Reading rooms for students contain current Chinese journals in the humanities and social sciences, newspapers, and Chinese medical reference books. Computerized, CD-ROM, or online literature searches may be requested at the Information Services may be requested at the Information Service Division, most searches are conducted for users by library staff. Guides to reference works are available for consultation at the Reference Desk. Library staff are trained to help users find detailed medical information in a wide range of biomedical fields. The ILL office provides access to materials unavailable at CMU but required by CMU students and faculty.