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Preston Smith Library of the Health Sciences
Lubbock



3601 4th Street Stop 7781
Lubbock, TX 79430-7781

Phone: 806-743-2200
Fax: 806-743-2218

Hours:
Monday - Thursday   7:30 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Friday 7:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.

 

WELCOME TO THE PRESTON SMITH LIBRARY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES

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The Lubbock campus is home to the Preston Smith Library of the Health Sciences, flagship biomedical library of the four-campus, four-library array of the Health Sciences Center, with the other three libraries of the multi-campus system located in Amarillo, Odessa, and El Paso. The TTUHSC Libraries of the Health Sciences collectively form one of the Resource Libraries of the National Library of Medicine/South Central Region. While it exists primarily to meet the biomedical and health care information needs of the TTUHSC students, faculty, and staff, the library also serves the wider non-affiliated biomedical community of West Texas, as well as the citizenry of Texas with a wide variety of information services.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center supports the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, and Pharmacy, as well as the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at its Lubbock campus. In all, the four campus libraries provide information support to over 3,000 employees, 1719 students, and 503 residents, as well as to a large number of unaffiliated health care personnel scattered throughout West Texas.

The new library was dedicated and formally named the Preston Smith Library of the Health Sciences in ceremonies held on August 13, 1998. Preston Smith, former Governor of Texas and an alumnus of Texas Tech University, was present for these ceremonies.

The facility contains twenty-eight group study rooms, a sixty-four-station Internet-connected computer lab in the Learning Resource Center, a Rare Books Room with adjacent Conference Room, three Photocopy Rooms, a Microfilm Room, and a Student Mentoring Program Room. The library has public seating for over three hundred users, as well as eighteen tables and twenty-eight open carrels. Use of the Group Study Rooms is open to TTUHSC students on a first-come, first-served basis. Each of the Group Study Rooms, the open carrel areas, Rare Books Room, Conference Room, as well as the leisure seating areas are outfitted with dynamic Internet 10-Base-T connectors to permit walk-in laptop utilization by library users. Public restrooms are provided on all floors of the facility, as well as six wall-mounted public paging phones.

Furnishings and decorations for the Rare Books Room were provided through a $10,000 donation from the Lubbock-Crosby-Garza County Medical Association. As the moving project neared completion the Preston Smith Library of the Health Sciences received a generous gift in the form of a valuable collection of Southwestern art. The Martha and Clifford L. Montgomery Collection consists of woodcuts, watercolors, and oil paintings by such artists as Peter Hurd, John Liggett Meigs, and Gustave Baumann. The collection was given to the library with the understanding that all works would be hung so that they might be enjoyed by the public. Accordingly, the collection is on display in the Reference Area in the library. The naming of the library included the creation of a library acquisitions endowment fund in honor of Governor Smith and his late wife, Ima Smith.

We hope that you will find the libraries of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center convenient, well-equipped and ready to meet your information needs.

Richard C. Wood, M.L.S.
Executive Director of Libraries


PRESTON SMITH LIBRARY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES

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The Preston Smith Library of the Health Sciences serves the TTUHSC Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Allied Health and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. As the major resource of clinical information in West Texas, the library also serves health professionals throughout the area.

Checkout privileges are available for faculty, staff and students of TTUHSC, as well as for faculty and graduate students of Texas Tech University. On-site use of the collection is available to the general public.

For additional information concerning access to services, please contact Judy Orr, Senior Director, Public Services, 806-743-2208.

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR LIBRARY USE:

CIRCULATION POLICIES

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LIBRARY CARDS: CHECKOUTS: RENEWALS:
Two renewals are allowed by phone (743-2200) or in person. Exceptions are: ITEM RETURN AREAS: FINES: LOST OR DAMAGED MATERIALS:
Charges include: Loss of library privileges until paid. Damaged material must still be returned to the library, as it is state property. The same is true of materials reported as lost but later found.

CHANGE OF NAME AND/OR ADDRESS:

PHOTOCOPY

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COPY CARDS: COPY SERVICES:
Copy services offered by the circulation staff for materials in this library (Document Delivery) are available for a per page fee which may be charged to a department account or paid on an individual cash/check basis.

PURCHASES:
(Available at the Circulation counter). Cash or check is required.

STACKS

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SPECIAL REQUEST: Library staff will assist you if you have difficulty locating materials.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN

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Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is immediately to the left of the entrance gate on the 2nd floor.

ILL HOURS: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
ILL Telephone: 806-743-2210

Service is available to all TTUHSC library card holders requiring books, photocopies of journal articles, or audiovisuals not available at the Lubbock library. Request forms are available for patrons to complete and sign in the ILL office or at the Circulation counter during evenings and weekends.

NOTE:
Requests made after 4:00 p.m. are normally processed the following work day, except in the case of a clinical emergency.

RESPONSE TIME WHEN HELD IN ANOTHER TTUHSC LIBRARY (Intralibrary Loan): RESPONSE TIME WHEN NOT HELD IN ANY TTUHSC LIBRARY (Interlibrary Loan): CLINICAL EMERGENCY/PATIENT CARE REQUESTS: NOTIFICATION, PICK UP, & PAYMENT: Contact the TTUHSC Interlibrary Loan Department for document delivery and interlibrary loan fees:
Phone: 743-2210; or E-mail: david.cox@ttuhsc.edu

LOANSOME DOC: For information concerning Loansome Doc agreements, contact Barbara Ballew (743-2209).

GROUP STUDY ROOMS

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The Library has 28 rooms for group study on a "first come, first served" basis. Rooms are not reserved.

Group study rooms are available for TTUHSC student use. Individuals may be required to relinquish the room to a group. Each of these rooms is equipped with a dry board, dry markers, and an eraser. Internet hookup is available in each room.


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