place

National Medical Library

Libraries in DelhiMedical education in IndiaMedical librariesNational librariesUse Indian English from October 2018

National Medical Library is a medical library established on 1 April 1966 by the Government of India. It is located in Ansari Nagar, New Delhi. It aims to provide library and information services to the health science professionals in India. It functions under the administrative control of the Directorate General of Health Services. It has 3.6 lakh volumes of books, reports, bound volume of journals and other literature. It subscribes around 2000 periodicals annually. The library has good collection of 19th century literature. Books are classified according to the Dewey Decimal Classification. It became the Indian focal point of HELLIS Network under World Health Organization in 1982. It has been organizing training programmes for medical/health science librarians since 1980. It has organized 17 Orientation Courses in Health Science Librarianship and trained over 150 librarians in India. It has also conducted training courses on specific topics like MEDLARS Searching, Computer Applications, Library management Software, Indexing and Abstracting etc. in different regions. National Workshop was held in 1997 to evaluate these courses. Any qualified medical person, student or faculty can take membership of the library and utilize the services of this vast amount of information in the library. One can also obtain a photocopy of any articles by post by paying nominal fee.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article National Medical Library (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors).

National Medical Library
Mahatma Gandhi Marg, New Delhi

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Website Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: National Medical LibraryContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 28.5682 ° E 77.2155 °
placeShow on map

Address

National Medical Library

Mahatma Gandhi Marg
110029 New Delhi
Delhi, India
mapOpen on Google Maps

Website
nml.nic.in

linkVisit website

Share experience

Nearby Places