VIRTUAL TOUR

Welcome to the Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo

Welcome to the HSL virtual tour! Please enjoy the trip, and feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Follow the links through each level of our building to see and read about our physical facility, resources, and services, and visit the added links to learn about our history, hours and collections.

Welcome | Lower Level | 1st Floor | 2nd Floor | 3rd Floor
Background | History | Hours | Services | Collections

photo of Director Gary Byrd leading a group tour

 

HSL arranges on-site tours for students, faculty and staff, alumni, and other interested individuals. Contact Pamela M. Rose at 716-829-3900 x129 for more information.

 

 

 

 

photo of Abbott Hall circa 2003 Background

The oldest library in the University Libraries system with a rich history, the Health Sciences Library is located in Abbott Hall on the South Campus. For details of the locations of our collections, offices, computer and study areas, view the marvelous floor plans courtesy of Donna Serafin, Web Design and Support Specialist, UB Libraries.

The original building constructed in the 1930s housed the Lockwood Memorial Library until 1978 when the library and the name moved to new quarters on the North Campus.

 

 

photo of HSL entrance off Diefendorf Loop circa 2002

The current entrance is through the addition constructed in 1986 when the renamed Abbott Hall was renovated specifically for HSL.

 

 

 

Our primary clientele include the faculty, staff and students of five of UB's Schools: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Dental Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Public Health and Health Professions, but we also serve the entire UB constituency as well as the Western New York community.

HSL is also a Regional Resource Library through the National Library of Medicine network, and maintains partnerships with a variety of other local and regional organizations and programs.

Hours

The Library is open seven days a week during the semester. General hours are Monday-Thursday 8am-Midnight, Friday 8am-10pm, Saturday 9am-9pm, and Sunday 10am-Midnight. Hours for the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection and the Digital Media Resources Center are posted separately, as are our semester break and holiday hours.

Services

HSL offers a variety of services and access to resources both in the library, through the HSL Web site, and through the BISON online catalog. Our growing electronic resources collection offers thousands of e-journals, e-serials and databases linked from the web page. Affiliated users can also access the HUBNET information system.

HSL provides workshops which emphasize both traditional and electronic resources as well as the critical ability to evaluate information for problem solving and decision making. Contact Information Management Education (IME) for more information. Distance learning users can also obtain reference and document delivery services, and a distance learning classroom is located on the lower level.

Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery services are also available for local library resources through UB Document Express or, for items not owned by the University Libraries, through our ILLiad system. Contact the Informaton Delivery Service (IDS) for more information.

Support for wireless as well as 28 open-port connections are provided within HSL. Patrons visting the library must have the appropriate card loaded on their laptops in order to take advantage of the wireless connections. A PDA Sync Site is available within the Digital Media Resources Center for medical students to sync with the server in the Office of Medical Computing. Support for PDA users is also available through our Resources for Mobile HSL page.

Reference staff are available to assist patrons with library research Monday-Friday from 9 am-9 pm, Saturday from 11 am-5 pm, and Sunday from Noon-7 pm. Users can also get help via telephone at 829-3900 x102, or through askHSL.

Collections

Anyone in the world can visit our Library and use our collections and computer resources on-site.

HSL continues to maintain an impressive collection in addition to our vast electronic resources, with over 1500 current print journals over 121,000 print books.

Housed within the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection, users interested in historical materials can browse:

 
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/hsl/tour/index.html Created: 20 November 2003 Revised: 13 December 2005