The library is located on the western side of the main CPSP building. There are two huge reading halls with a total capacity of 300 individual readers for study. The library provides a centrally air-conditioned, fully carpeted, congenial and scholarly environment, conducive to research.

Library Services & Membership

Collection
Since its inception, valuable collection of medical books are being developed on regular basis and now collection consists of:

• Books: over 8,900
• Journals: 5,400 volumes on various subjects of medical & health sciences.
• Subscribed Journal: over 50.
• Dissertations: over 5,000 (submitted by trainees of FCPS Part - II).
• Audio Visual Material: over 2,045, consist of CDs, Slides, Video and Audio Tapes

Library Publications
• MEDLIP Medical Literature Indexing Services Pakistan (online available).
• Index of Dissertations (online available).
• Directory of Periodical holdings.

Bibliographical Services
The library provides bibliographical services for checking and correcting citation of Synopsis and Dissertations of FCPS candidates and suggests improvement.

Photocopy Services
A photocopying facility is provided in the library for coping the required material from various journals/books and other material.

Library Timing
To accommodate maximum number of researchers, CPSP keeps the library open from 8:30 A.M. to 12:00 midnight (without break) and on Sundays and public holidays from 9:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. under the supervision of competent and qualified staff.

Membership
Membership fee is a nominal monthly for all the doctors who are pursuing various courses or appearing in the examinations of CPSP. If seats are available, other medical graduates enrolled with PMDC are also welcome to become a member of CPSP Library.

Library Cooperation
Inter-Library Loan facility exists with the following libraries:

• Aga Khan University Health Sciences Library, Karachi.
• Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre Library, Karachi.
• Sharing WHO/EMR for Inter-Library Loan (ILL) services within the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

IRC (Internet Research Centre)
Recent technological development imparts new dimensions and enhanced new role for libraries and librarians. To meet the demand of the new technology, CPSP Library enhanced its activities to provide electronic resources of knowledge.

CPSP Library has established an Internet Research Center (IRC) to facilitate the researching students and all its users. IRC has state of-the-art technology at the disposal of the user for their research work. All workstations have a processing speed of 1.8GHz and with 128 MB RAM and 40GB Hard Disk. To enable the researchers to print relevant material or/and copy material to a CD or to their own USB Drive the IRC is equipped with a Laser Printer and a CD Writer. CPSP is recieving a 1 MB internet bandwidth which is used by the IRC users in their research work and allows high speed browsing and downloading of research topics.

The facility includes the provision of printing and copying of CDs of research material. This service is open to all Fellows, Members and Trainees of FCPS and MCPS/DCPS.

The IRC has been established in CPSP Head Office at Karachi and all other CPSP regional centers. Department of Information Technology of CPSP takes care of the backup and support services to this important resource of knowledge.

Opening Hours
The IRC is open six days a week. The official working hours of the IRC are from 8:00 am till 5:00 pm – Monday through Saturday.

Available Electronic Resources
Digital Library program of Higher Education Commission is also an important source which helps locate free full text articles through following publisher’s databases.

• Blackwell Synergy Publishing.
• EBSCOhost
• Royal Society of Chemistry.
• SpringerLink
• Oxford University Press
• Sharing WHO/EMR for Inter-Library Loan (ILL) services within the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

Medline Facilities
To keep pace with modern technological advances, the library has established a Computer Section with seven CD-ROM Databases. CD-ROM MEDLINE Disks (Compact Disk Read Only Memory Medical Literature On-Line) from 1966 to-date have been acquired with subscriptions for monthly updates. MEDLINE covers more than 4,600 medical journals published throughout the world in various languages. The information provided in MEDLIBE includes complete bibliographical details about the articles in English and other languages. This technology enables researchers to search and retrieve information in seconds and reprint the same. Full text databases Compact Library 1986-1993 and ExtraMed 1995-1998 also available in the library.

Electronic Document Delivery Services
CPSP library provides information in-house collection and also from the materials available at different institutions through e-mail too. CPSP library is part of Union Catalogue of EMRO Health Science Journals and shares its resources to other Eastern Mediterranean Regional libraries through Ariel software.

National Depository Library of WHO
The World Health Organization has officially designated the library of College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) as a depository library for WHO publications in Pakistan. A separate space has been allocated for this purpose and all the WHO publications are available for all visitors registered or un-registered. This library serves as reference source for those interested to consult WHO publications.

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