FAQs about Library Access
Who has access to Weill Cornell Medical Library?
All students, faculty and staff of the Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate
School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, all staff of the NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital, and staff of affiliated institutions have access to the Library. To find out if
your institution is affiliated, please call the Library Circulation Desk, (212) 746-6050.
The Library is not open to the general public or to patients of the NYPH or their
families.
Alumni of the Medical College [alumni@med.cornell.edu, (646) 962-6596] or of the Medical Center [centeralumni@med.cornell.edu, (212) 821-0948] must show an alumni card for access to the Library. Alumni of Cornell Ithaca must register at the Circulation Desk.
If I'm not affiliated with the Weill Cornell Medical
Library, where can I go to find medical information?
The public may use The New York Academy of
Medicine Library located on E 103rd St & Fifth Ave (212) 822-7321 open from 9-5
Monday through Friday. Other libraries with health and medical information resources
include the Mid-Manhattan Library of The New York Public Library
455 Fifth Ave at 40th St. (212) 340-0833 and the 96th St Branch at 112 E. 96th St. (212)
289-0908.
Do WCMC staff have access to the Rockefeller (RU) and
Memorial Sloan-Kettering (MSKCC) libraries?
Users with a valid ID from the Weill Cornell Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital have access to the libraries of both institutions. Please phone (212) 639-7439
for access information for the MSKCC Library and visit http://www.rockefeller.edu/library/about/access.php
for the RU Library. Please note that access to RU Library requires a current Weill
Cornell Library barcode on your ID.
What is the Diethelm Library and how can I get access
to its collection?
The Oskar Diethelm
Library is a special collection dealing with the history of psychiatry. It is part of
WCMC's Institute for the History of Psychiatry and includes approximately 50,000 titles
dealing with psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, mesmerism, spiritualism, phrenology,
witchcraft and related topics. Journal holdings include long back runs of psychiatric
journals as well as current journals dealing with the history of medicine, psychiatry and
psychology. Archival holdings include the papers of numerous organizations and
individuals. The Library is open only to qualified scholars in the history of psychiatry
and related fields. Contact Diane
Richardson, Special Collections Librarian, (212) 746-3728, to apply for permission to
use the Library. The reading room of the Oskar Diethelm Library is located at Room
F-1212, Baker Pavilion, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, 525
E. 68th St., New York, NY, 10021 and is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 6
pm.
Where is a copy machine and how do I get a copy card
and change?
The Photocopying at the
Library web page explains photocopying in the Weill Cornell Medical Library as well
as the Memorial Sloan Kettering, Rockefeller and Hospital for Special Surgery
libraries.
Last Updated: September 3, 2009
