Welcome to the Medical Library & Peyton T. Anderson Learning Resources Center! 

The Medical Library offers a variety of print, electronic, and audiovisual items which support both the problem-based curriculum and faculty research and development. The collection includes books, audiovisuals, government documents, and print and electronic journals. The Peyton T. Anderson Learning Resources Center (LRC) provides a health sciences model gallery, computer lab with interactive software, meeting rooms and a multi-disciplinary wet lab. In addition to an extensive model collection, the LRC also houses x-rays, microscope slides and plastinated specimens. Library and LRC resources can be located using the MedCat online catalog at http://gainiii.mercer.edu.

Electronic Resources

Databases: The Library provides access to specialized electronic resources such as MD Consult, Cochrane Library, DynaMed, ISI Web of Science, ACP’s PIER, GALILEO, and RefWorks.

Journals: The Library makes several thousand journals available electronically which may be accessed via our A-to-Z e-Journal List. In MUSM buildings, no login is required. For off-campus access, MUSM faculty/staff should use their email username (e.g. smith_ab) and password. MUSM faculty who do not have Mercer email should use their GaIN username and password to login. When searching PubMed/MEDLINE for journal articles, be sure to use the MUSM PubMed link
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?dr=abstract&holding=musmlib
to enable you to access full-text MUSM journals directly from PubMed. Off campus, use
http://medlib-proxy.mercer.edu/login?url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?dr=abstract&holding=musmlib

Textbooks: Over 100 textbooks in various specialties (including many student primary references) are available online through GaIN at http://gain.mercer.edu (see below).

PDA and Mobile Resources

GaIN (Georgia Interactive Network for Medical Information)

The Medical Library serves as the hub for GaIN (Georgia Interactive Network for Medical Information), which provides information services and resources to hospitals and healthcare institutions across Georgia. Many of the Library’s electronic resources are accessed through GaIN at http://gain.mercer.edu , which requires an individualized username and password. To receive a username and password, complete the brief application form at http://gainweb.mercer.edu/GaINmembershipapp.pdf, or contact Rita Smith, Outreach and Education Coordinator, at 478-301-2827 or smith_rb@mercer.edu.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

Through interlibrary loan, faculty may request books or journal articles not found in the Library’s collection or submitting an online request at http://med.mercer.edu/libraries/ill-macon.htm. Fees for ILL ($3.00 per item) are charged to the appropriate department (with prior approval of the department) OR to the individual faculty member, depending on the policy of the department. Articles may be picked up in the Library or emailed to you. Please allow 3-10 business days for receipt of borrowed materials. Books may take longer, and must be picked up in the Library.

Printing

Photocopying/Document Delivery

Freshmen and sophomore medical students will be allotted $150.00 photocopy page credits per year, paid for by the school. This will be credited to the students' Mercer ID Bear Card photocopy accounts; unused credit will be voided on July 31 each year. In order to make additional copies (at $.10/page) after the allotted $150.00, students will need to add value to their Mercer ID Bear Card, and can do so via the regenerator located in the Medical Library.

Materials on Reserve

Purpose
Reserve items are materials listed as primary references in the Mercer University School of Medicine Study Guides, the clerkship reading lists, and items in heavy demand during a phase.

Location
Reserve Materials are located in the Library workroom. Please ask for them at the Reference Desk.

Availability
Standard checkout of reserve items is four hours. However, four hours before closing, reserve materials may be checked out for overnight use provided they are returned one hour after reopening. Clerkship Reserve 2 items may be checked out for the entire length of the clinical rotation.

Library Instruction

We offer one on one or group classes for faculty, staff, and students on a variety of topics, including PubMed/MEDLINE, Locating Fulltext E-journals and Textbooks, GALILEO, RefWorks and more. We are happy to make a “house call” to your office to provide individualized assistance. Contact Rita Smith, Outreach and Education Coordinator, for more information at 478-301-2827 or smith_rb@mercer.edu.

Recommending Items for Purchase

Would you like the Library to acquire a book, journal or other item? Use the Suggestion for Purchase Form to submit your requests to us.

Peyton T. Anderson Learning Resources Center

The Learning Resources Center (LRC) on the second floor is part of the Medical Library. The facility is used for resource sessions, classes, meetings, testing, computer and audiovisual equipment usage, and display/check out of models, x-rays, various medical software and other items. Due to the delicate and expensive nature of LRC resources, food and drink are permitted in the classrooms only. 

Computer Classroom/Lab

Included in the LRC facility is a computer lab containing 16 terminals, one instructor computer and access to a printer. The computer lab is used mainly for formal classes and for computer instruction on electronic resources, database searching, and the Internet. When the lab is not being used for formal instruction, it is open to all MUSM students. Reserved dates/hours will be posted on the lab door.

Room Reservations

MUSM faculty, staff & students may reserve rooms in the Medical Library & LRC for classes, meetings, and other functions. Room use is subject to availability.

To reserve a room in the Medical Library contact the circulation desk at reference.ill@gain.mercer.edu or 478-301-4056.

To reserve a room in the LRC, please call the LRC at 478-301-4149.

Rooms Available for Reservation in the Library

Conference Room (seats 10-12)

Rooms Available for Reservation in the LRC

· Computer Classroom (16 student PCs + instructor PC, LCD projector)

· LRC 201 (classroom, desktop computer, Internet access & multimedia presentation tools available)

· LRC 202 (classroom, desktop computer, Internet access & multimedia presentation tools available)

· Wet Lab

Recording Resource Sessions

LRC rooms 201 and 202 are equipped with a camera and a DVD recorder. All first and second year resource sessions held in these rooms are recorded. The resource session DVDs are cataloged and placed on four-hour checkout at the LRC desk.

The resource sessions remain in the LRC through the end of the current phase and then go to the BMP Coordinator to be archived.