Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library

Committed to supporting the academic and research activities of the faculty, staff & students at the Columbia University Medical Center campus, the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library (HSL) is one of the largest academic health sciences libraries in the country. Its collection includes over 500,000 volumes, 4,400 current periodical subscriptions, and extensive holdings of media, electronic resources, rare books and archival materials.

HSL serves Columbia University’s colleges of Medicine and Dental Medicine and the schools of Nursing and Public Health; New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH); and other health care, instructional and research programs in the Columbia University Medical Center. HSL is one of 25 libraries comprising the Columbia University libraries system, which holds more than 8 million volumes and over 65,000 current serials.

The Library offers a variety of study spaces for both group and individual study. Wireless network access is available throughout the Library.

Expert medical librarians support the Columbia community’s research needs with one-on-one reference consultations and both formal and informal classes covering library resources. For more information about the library’s offerings and services, call 212-305-3605; send an email to hs-library@columbia.edu or visit the library’s homepage: http://library.cpmc.columbia.edu/hsl/

Other library services include: Photocopy center, interlibrary loan, print and electronic reserves, fax sending and receiving, private study rooms, and transfer of materials between HSL and Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus.

The library is located in the Hammer Health Sciences Center on the Columbia University Medical Center campus. The Medical Center Library is a unit of the Office of Education and Scholarly Resources.