Lane Library Today
Lane Medical Library is an operating unit within the Medical Student Education group led by Senior Associate Dean Charles Prober, MD.
Lane Library is comprised of four groups, all of which support Stanford Medical Center’s research, education, and patient care objectives.
The Lane Library is a state-of-the-art medical library operation. We are proud of our rich history dating back to 1882.
Resource Management
We acquire and license digital content and other library materials and organize and facilitate access to such resources.
We provide assistance with digital resource access, process suggestions for library purchases and gifts.
Access
Services
We support use of Lane's print and online collections and manage Lane's physical facilities.
We provide assistance with books and collections, course reserves, patron registration, DocXpress: document delivery service, public computing, printing and copying
Research & Instruction
We provides access to information resources and reference and consultation at the point of need.
We support a liaison program, specialty portals, special collections and archives. We teach workshops and provide research assistance.
Knowledge Integration
We develop and support search-and-discovery applications to simplify the workflow of clinicians, researchers, and biomedical trainees.
We support FindIt@Stanford, Lane Catalog and Voyager, library websites, metasearch, access to electronic journals and databases.
