The library's major services include provision of print and electronic journal and book resources, mediated database searching, training in the use of relevant information retrieval tools, interlibrary loan service, and general reference service. The library maintains and provides access to an extensive print and electronic collection covering the life sciences and medicine. The 23,000-volume collection focuses on biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, and neoplasia. The library also subscribes to the printed version of Index Medicus , as well as to the CD-ROM version of Science Citation Index . Besides providing the above-mentioned materials and daily reference service, library staff perform database searching on demand in a wide variety of subject areas.
Staff are also facile searchers of the Internet in general.
Presentations to large groups are made to reinforce ways to access and utilize the library's Web page, online catalog, and site licensed Web-based resources. Library staff also maintain and support approximately 100 library users' Ovid accounts. Forms for making database search, interlibrary loan, or purchase recommendation requests are also available, so that investigators need not come to the library to place such orders. Library staff access a special email address repeatedly throughout the day to receive requests and act quickly to satisfy them. Rush service is available via fax, with articles usually arriving within 24 hours of the request.