Purpose

The Health Sciences Library serves as the primary information center for Allegheny General Hospital. It supports the overall mission of the hospital to provide quality patient care and to foster education, research and community services which support and complement the provision of quality patient care.

The Health Sciences Library provides access to all publicly available information through a combination of resources and services. The library's health information professionals use all appropriate methodologies and technologies to access pertinent information regardless of format or location, ensure the reliability of that information and deliver that information to library clients at local and remote locations. Library staff maintain extensive knowledge of internal and external information resources which are relevant to health care and biomedical research, including those not obtainable through standard sources, thereby guaranteeing access to all relevant information.

The library is available for use by the medical staff, employees, and students of Allegheny General Hospital, as well as Allegheny patients, patient families, and health care consumers.