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The mission of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Libraries of the Health Sciences, whether located at the Lubbock, Amarillo, El Paso or Odessa campuses, is to meet the curricular, research and patient-care information needs of TTUHSC students, faculty and staff and by extension, to meet the biomedical information needs of the community and resident citizenry of the 108-county area of West Texas. This library system has collections in excess of 290,000 bound volumes, electronic subscriptions of over 35,000 e-books and 15,000 e-journals. With only two non-TTUHSC hospital libraries in place in all of West Texas, the TTUHSC library system is virtually the sole source for quality biomedical information throughout the afore-mentioned 108-county area. The collective TTUHSC library system serves as a Resource Library for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and has received the distinctive recognition of Association of Research Libraries status, an honor held since 1998. All four libraries of the system are open seven days per week. The library system’s electronic resources are available to TTUHSC students, faculty and staff on a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week basis on campus or at a distance. While each of the four libraries offers users its own set of instructional workshops on the use of biomedical electronic tools and databases, the TTUHSC Libraries of the Health Sciences are actually one library in four locations.