Textbooks and recommended readings for Health Sciences courses are in the High Demand Collection.

Central Library 1 and 3-hour loans and 3-day loans are shelved in the High Demand Collection on level 2.

To see books for your course, select the Course code search in the Library’s catalogue and type in your course code, e.g. hlth 101.

Health and medical material is concentrated in the R - RS classifications.

Other relevant classifications include:-

• BF (Psychology)
• H (Social Sciences Research)
• HM - HT (Sociology)
• HQ (Family, Youth Studies, Gerontology, Sexuality)
• HV (Social Work)
• QP (Physiology)
• QM (Anatomy)
• QR (Microbiology)

Try these sources:-

Canterbury Medical Library via University of Otago

New Zealand National Union Catalogue

WorldCat

Google Books

• EBL books can be read online - this is the easiest method and is recommended by the Library.
• Reading online requires that you have Adobe Reader installed (may not be required on a Mac).
• When you choose to read a book online, you are first given 10 minutes to browse within it.
• After this time, or if you want to print or copy any section, you are prompted to create a loan.
• When you create a loan, the book continues to be available to you for 24 hours, and appears on your bookshelf which is available from the EBL homepage.
• The bookshelf continues to display books you have read, even after the 24 hour period has expired, and you can access them for another 24 hour period at any time.

Books are ordered on the shelves using the Library of Congress classification system.

Each print book on the shelves has a unique call number which can be found by using the Library’s catalogue.

Note that the Library has an increasing number of e-books. These do not have a call number and you will only find them by searching the catalogue.

Tip for finding books on your topic. Use a Keyword search to find a relevant book, then click on the Subjects in the catalogue record to find more books on the same topic.