SpotlightMay 2008
Drexel University Health Sciences Libraries
The Library that serves DUCOM is located on the Queen Lane Campus—five miles from downtown Philadelphia.
Although we have over 500,000 physical visits to the libraries each year, our students live and work all over the world. The library’s website is their primary portal to services and materials. Our policy of sharing all licensed electronic resources with the University Library and many resources with our Law Library allows the Health Sciences Libraries to offer our users over 500 databases, 80,000 e-books and 21,000 journals, a great advantage in today’s interdisciplinary academic environment.
Recent improvements to the physical plant included converting stack space into collaborative study rooms and a classroom as well as the installation of caf furniture in a lounge area. We hope you’ll visit our recently updated website for more information about our programs and services.
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Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM) was created by the 1982 merger of Hahnemann Medical College and Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. These institutions were two of the earliest medical colleges in the United States -- established in 1848 and 1850 respectively -- and Woman’s was the very first medical school for women in the nation. With two locations in Philadelphia, the combined Health Sciences Libraries serve over 7000 students, faculty, staff and residents both on our campuses and remotely.
The Hahnemann Library, in Center City Philadelphia, has collections geared to the needs of Drexel’s School of Public Health and College of Nursing and Health Professions.
Drexel has often been in the vanguard in implementing technology: we were the first major university to operate a fully wireless campus and the Libraries among the first to migrate to a completely electronic journal collection beginning in 1998. In that spirit, our Libraries have a presence in the virtual world of Second Life at: