It contains a museum, archives, and a library. The Albert B. Sabin Archives draw considerable attention. Scholars examine the papers of Dr. Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine while at the University of Cincinnati. The museum also includes evidence of polio's devastating past, including an iron lung donated by the Cincinnati March of Dimes. The museum is open to the public during regular library hours.
Visitors can obtain a free pass at the library security desk.
The library's special collections, while not available to the public, are on display periodically. The museum is open free to the public by appointment. Collections are accessible to the public with restrictions. The library's museum collection contains about 1,000 medical artifacts, including surgery and amputation cases and saddlebags that doctors used to store their instruments. Named after its first director, Joseph Ioor Waring, M.D., the library primarily chronicles the history of the health sciences in the state and the South, but much of the material is universal.