H.M. Fishbon Memorial Library

General Information

The Fishbon Memorial Library is open to all UCSF faculty and staff and to patients and other visitors seeking health and medical information.

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Policies

Access - UCSF Faculty, Students and Staff

The library accepts requests for reference support via telephone, email and fax. As a general rule, we will respond via fax only when the information is required for a patient emergency.

Access - Patients and Visitors

Patients and visitors are welcome during regular library hours; go to the HealthWorks website for details about finding health and medical information.

Borrowing privileges from the Fishbon Library are extended to the following only:

• Full & part-time permanent UCSF faculty and staff
• Students currently registered at UCSF
• Guest faculty/researchers if their faculty sponsor is willing to have the items borrowed in their name.

Loan periods:

• Loan period for all general library materials is 1 Month.
• Reference materials may be loaned at the discretion of the Librarian; generally, the period may be whatever meets the need of the patron – from a few hours up to one month.
• Journals may be loaned at the discretion of the Librarian for a few hours.
• History of Medicine materials are library use only.  No exceptions.

Photocopying and Printing

• Cost is 15 cents per copy for both the copy machine & the computers
• Payment is cash only unless you have a department or personal account with the Fishbon Library

 

UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion | 1600 Divisadero Street | San Francisco, CA 94115 | 415-567-6600