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College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the University of Houston - College of Optometry. An additional thirteen supporting organizations are non-governing members of the Library. They include: Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, Harris Health System, Houston Community College System, Houston Department of Health and Human Services, LifeGift Organ Donation Center, Memorial Hermann Hospital System (including TIRR), Houston Methodist Hospital, Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Shriners Hospitals for Children, and Texas Children's Hospital.
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Library's service area extends to Houston, and Harris County, 18 counties in south Texas and a five-state region. Remote access via the Library's proxy server is available to authorized clientele logging in from locations worldwide. Under an agreement with the National Library of Medicine through their MedPrint program, the TMC Library has agreed to retain 37 journals as part of a national coordinated effort to preserve print materials. These journals equate to approximately 5,000 items to be stored in the Library's archives.
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institutions and hospitals in the TMC in
Houston, the careers of Houston physicians and biographical information on Texas physicians. In addition, the archive includes manuscript collections from American rheumatologists, the life sciences departments at the Johnson Space Center, historical manuscripts such as the McGovern Collection on the History of Medicine, the Menninger Collection of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis and the
27:, TX. The TMC Library is the only major medical and scientific library serving the entire 1,345 sq. acre Texas Medical Center (TMC) campus and its non-profit institutions. It offers librarian services, and provides biomedical information for education and research activities to take place, and study space for students for these schools to help maintain their accreditation.
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Library's most staunch supporters, annually supplying funds for the purchase of rare books. In 1977, the Library formed a new department in new quarters to collect historical materials and to enhance the rare book collections. In 1982, Dr. McGovern donated his personal collection of
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Libraries around the country go digital, the TMC Library is relocating the large majority of its print materials to a repository co-sponsored by the University of Texas System and the Texas A&M System. This repository will act as the storage facility for the universities around the state of
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The TMC Library is a separate entity from the TMC, Corp. (TMC). Unique to medical and research libraries across the country, the
Library is a private, stand-alone and not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization independent from any university or research institution. No other library in the Association of
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The permanent building for this new library came shortly after in the early 1950s, through the efforts of a group of forward thinkers from HCMS and BCM, interested in the growth of the TMC and in a strong library to support medical education. These individuals secured funds from major
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Governed by a board of directors composed of community volunteers, the board has an outstanding representation of medical, academic, and business professionals. The
Friends meet every other month throughout the academic year, September through May. Individuals, medical associations and societies,
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Library officially became known as the Houston Academy of Medicine – Texas Medical Center Library. The new library went through several name changes over the past decades, and in late 1970 received its current official name, the Houston Academy of Medicine – Texas Medical Center
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National Network of Libraries of Medicine – South Central Region (NN/LM SCR). Through a competitive bid process, the TMC Library has secured the contract from the National Library of Medicine, under the
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was dedicated with approximately 27,000 square feet of space over three floors. The building bears Mr. Jones' name and is the only building to do so in the TMC. The cornerstone of the 1954 building reads: “Jesse H. Jones Library Building of the Houston Academy of Medicine for the Texas Medical
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The Library now holds approximately 332,000 print books and bound journals, delivers access to over 8,000 electronic journals, 11,000 electronic books, 240 free and proprietary databases, and 391 website portals. In FY 2012, over 3,100 gigabytes of data were electronically accessed by client
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The Library allows the educational institutions of the TMC to meet the accreditation standards necessary to remain in operation, including Baylor College of Medicine and UTHealth Science Center. The Library is required for accreditation by the accrediting bodies which oversee the educational
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The McGovern Center for Historical Collections (McGovern Center) within The TMC Library has notable historical collections on the foundations of the medical specialties, Texas medicine, rheumatology and North American public health. The archival collections focus on the development of the
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In 2004 a considerable investment in technology ensued, and wireless routers were added that managed to cover 45% of the building – in spite of 3 foot concrete floors. Today, the library has wireless connection throughout the building, including the outside surrounding plazas.
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The Library's annual budget for basic operations is derived from assessments from its eight governing and thirteen supporting institutions. Resources are accessible at the Library to non-member institutions and to the general public as well.
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decided to combine their collections into a single library to better serve the physicians of Harris County and the educational and research programs of BCM. This newly formed library would be under the jurisdiction of the
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