OVERVIEW

The Health Sciences Library, perhaps the best in the country, is spread over 1.5 lakh sq. ft. over five levels, and can accommodate 1300 students at a time. It provides access to a range of databases on the campus network, e-resources, and OPAC-related access to its vast collection. It has a separate audio-visual room, computer lab, group study area and private study area.

It started as the Central Library in 1953 and later shifted to an independent building at Dr T.M.A Pai Research Centre in 1983. In view of the future academic requirements, the university created SEARCH, the Health Sciences Library with state-of-the-art facilities at manipal.edu building.

OBJECTIVES

• To acquire, manage, and disseminate health sciences information to students, faculty and research scholars of the constituent health sciences institutions at Manipal.
• To provide timely, accurate and current information to users for education, teaching and research.
• To provide information services and access to bibliographic and full text digital and printed resources to support the scholarly and informational needs of the health sciences institutions of Manipal Academy of Higher Education.
• To support and facilitate the research, learning, teaching and administrative activities of the university by organizing, maintaining and providing access to appropriate literature and information resources in such a way as to provide optimum benefit for library users.
• To provide an appropriate and comfortable environment and facilities for the use of library services and for individual and group study.

COLLECTION

The total collection of library resources as on 31 December 2013 is as follows.

For information on the e-resources available, you can download Library e_resources.

LIBRARY USERS

The Health Sciences Library is accessible to

• Kasturba Medical College, Manipal
• Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal
• Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal
• Manipal School of Nursing
• Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal
• Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal
• Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal
• KMC International Centre, Manipal
• School of Life Science, Manipal
• Dept of Statistics, KMC, Manipal
• Dept of Public Health, KMC, Manipal
• Dept of Virus Research, KMC, Manipal
• Dept of Library and Information Science, KMC, Manipal.

CONTACTS

Dr Shivananda Bhat 
Senior Librarian and In-charge
Health Sciences Library
Kasturba Medical College
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal – 576 104, INDIA
Telephone +91820 2922358
Fax +91820 2570061
e-mail: lib.kmc@manipal.edu