About the Library
hours and location | access | staff contacts | recommend a title | technology in the library | our collection | mission | for librarians
Hours | Location
1400 Jackson Street, Goodman Bldg room K104, Denver CO, 80206-2671
Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
Telephone: (303) 398-1482
Fax: (303) 270-2149
E-Mail: library@njc.org
For a tour, call or e-mail to make an appointment.
Access
Employees have 24/7 access to the library with an ID badge. To check out books and journals here and books at UCHSC stop by the library and fill out a Patron Data Sheet. You can also get a code on Ovid/MEDLINE so that you can save searches and receive SDI service.
Staff | Contact us
Rosalind F. Dudden, M.L.S., AHIP, FMLA, Health Sciences Librarian - 303.398.1483
Barb Griss, M.L.S., Information Specialist/Reference Librarian, Mon-Wed - 303.398.1342
Shandra Protzko, M.S., Information Specialist/Reference Librarian - 303.398.1343
Carol Miller, B.S., Library Technician II, Technical Services - 303.398.1484
Sean Crow, Library Technician I, Interlibrary Loan - 303.398.1482
LaVonne Griffie, Library Technician I, Circulation, Afternoons - 303.398.1482
Recommend Books and Journals
The library accepts recommendations for books all year. Purchase decisions on journals are made in the summer with the order placed in September for the next year. E-mail or fax (303.270.2149) suggestions, or drop by the library. New Book Acquisitions to the library print collection are posted quarterly.
Technology in the Library
- Internet Access in the Library
The library computer center has two Macintoshes and three PCs. These are available to staff for medical research. Two PCs are provided in the Helen L. Rider Health Information Center for patient use, families and visitors for e-mail and medical research. See posted instructions for restrictions on use.
- Mobile Computing Services
The Tucker Library provides Internet access for portables through a wireless interface or Internet cable.
- Photocopying
The library has a Sharp Digital copy machine and scanner. Make copies or scan print materials to PDF and TIFF for OCR conversion. The copy machine is reserved for library copying only.
- Paging Telephone - located in the copy room.
Our Collection
- Access to the book collection is available in an online catalog in the library and via the Internet or dial-up. Called Impulse, the online catalog is a combined database with UCHSC and eight other Denver medical libraries. URL: http://library.uchsc.edu.
- The Library has 3500 books, 260 print journal subscriptions, and 10,000 bound back journal volumes from 1947 and 1966 in core subjects. Other journals are held for 20 years. As of January, 2001, the library has arranged institutional full text electronic access to over 150 of our core titles on the web. In addition to these single journals, contracts have been signed for access to journals through IDEAL, ScienceDirect, Cell Press, Science, and Nature. The Library also participates in EBSCO Online.
- Check Impulse for book and journal holdings information. Complete listing of online and print titles can be searched using the E-Journal Finder. Learn about print and electronic journals and resources to find citations and cite articles.
- The Library maintains an excellent print and online collection in the subject areas of interest to National Jewish. Other medical areas are covered with a few core texts. For access to over 35 Electronic Textbooks, use MD Consult.
- New Book Acquisitions to the library print collection are posted quarterly. This list includes consumer health titles.
- The clinical reference shelf, located near the library entrance, has one medical text on every major medical subject field.
- The Index Medicus and its antecedents are held back to 1880.
- The library has arranged and paid for access to MEDLINE and over 20 other databases. These and over 100 other databases are listed in Databases Available service.
- The Tucker Library also has a Consumer Health Information collection, the Helen L. Rider Health Information Center.
Vision and Mission Statement
Our Vision
That National Jewish decision-makers (clinicians, researchers, administrators, staff, and consumers) will have accurate and timely information, where and when they need it, and in the format they find most useful.
Our Mission
The Tucker Medical Library is an information-service department whose purpose is to provide information to support National Jewish research, educational, and clinical programs in their quest to be the best in the nation. This is achieved by:
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- Recognizing and appreciating our customers: staff members, patients and their families, other affiliates of the National Jewish, and the general public.
- Understanding the information needs of the National Jewish research, educational, and clinical programs.
- Maintaining an expert and comprehensive service for locating and obtaining worldwide biomedical information through the use of global computer networks and multiple library connections.
- Providing National Jewish staff with direct access to databases and computer information networks, and training and assistance in their use.
- Supplying an organized core collection of online and printed material in a physical and virtual environment that facilitates teaching and learning.
