Library

PMRC CENTRAL LIBRARY

The PMRC has established its Central Library and Information Centre at the Head Office in 1993. For collection development the library specifically focuses on local health literature, which is vertebral column for essential national health research. PMRC Library is providing information services and useful assistance to PMRC Research Centres, postgraduate (FCPS, MS, MD, MPhil & PhD) students, clinicians, academicians, and researchers of health care institutions, ministries, national and international organizations to meet their research needs. Plans for its expansion and linkages are being developed at the national and international level to make it an efficient "Health Information Resource Centre" to support decision making in health research development.

Objectives

To procure, process and disseminate the health information / literature to the health community, researchers, individuals and families to help them to make decisions about health and health care
To develop information tools like: indexes, bibliographies, abstracts, directories and current awareness services
To expand the complimentary exchange programme of health sciences literature on global level
To develop interlibrary co-operation and resource sharing with other libraries.

Library Resources and Information Services

Dimension:
Air-conditioned reading room (800 Sq. feet); open access system; length of shelves 500 feet; seating arrangement-30; reading tables and carrels.

Collection-4800:

Web based resources, books / monographs, technical/annual reports, PMRC publications / documents, health surveys, government / non-government, international agencies publications, health science periodicals, journal articles, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, directories, subject indexes, bibliographies, publishers catalogues, CD-ROM databases, slides, cassettes, etc.

Equipment:

Computers, Printers, Scanner, CD-Writer, Fax, Photocopier

Online & Offline Access:

Internet access; CD-ROM databases: MEDLINE; POPLINE; SERLINE (SERials-on-LINE); WHO Reproductive Health Library 2vol; Environmental Health M/MC Databases (Johns Hopkins Population Information Program Media / Materials Clearinghouse: provides a "virtual visit")

Health Literature Services:

Provision to guidance of health literature, bibliographic citations and document delivery service.

Library Software:

LAMP (Library Automation & Management Programme) Software developed by the Pakistan Library Association.Using for catalogue records, indexing of journal articles, literature search, accessioning and circulation.

Human Resource:

Librarian (Technical)
Cataloguer (Technical)
Lady Health Visitor (Supporting Staff)
Library Clerk (Supporting Staff)
Library Attendant (Supporting Staff)

Contact Person:

Fayyaz Ahmad Pirzado

Librarian

Pakistan Medical Research Council Shahrah-e-Jamhuriat,

Off Constitution Avenue Sector G-5/2

Islamabad, 44000 Pakistan

email: fapirzado@yahoo.com

Tel: (92-51) 9224325, 9216793; Fax: 9224327, 9216774