A Study on Information Resources Collection, Usages and Services in the Gujarat University affiliated Medical College Libraries, Gujarat

Medical Library plays a vital role for giving their services to the faculties, resident doctors, medical scientists, UG& PG students, researchers and health professionals. The main purpose of Medical library is to support medical education, including teaching and research with special focus on improved patient care. An intelligent and healthy brain requires evidence based accurate knowledge for healthy human being. So a well-equipped Medical library is an asset for promotion and advancement of health education and healthy brain. The collection storage and presentation of health information in most of developing and developed countries are made available through the established information centers, such as teaching institutions, departmental libraries of clinics and hospitals, research centers, medical associations libraries, and private foundation libraries and so on. Special Medical library is a library for setup of specialized collection information resources on a particular subject, and serve to their patrons and delivers particular services to the clients. More efficient service in Medical Libraries can be done use of ICT for maintain modern Medical information& resources. Libraries in a medical college is a depository of facts and information of investigations and the hub of information for knowledge sharing with medical professionals, researchers and students.