Library

The Sheldon L. Sirota DO Memorial Library serves both the College of Pharmacy and the College of Osteopathic Medicine. Located on the 3rd floor at 230 W. 125th Street, the Library is open 24/7 for students wishing to study, use the computers, print or make photocopies. The library is staffed when classes are in session from 9 am to 8 pm Monday through Thursday. 

The majority of the library holdings for both programs are in electronic format. Nearly all of its titles are available electronically both on and off campus to faculty, students, and preceptors. The library provides on-line text access to over 60,000 journals, e-book holdings of over 120,000 and 94 databases are available, both bibliographic and full-access.

Physical copies of pharmacy-related books and journals are also located in the third-floor library at 3 Times Square and in the Touro College of Pharmacy's Drug Information Center. Pharmacy students may also use the 3 Times Square library during the operating hours of the campus.

The Library's Collection Development Policy states the level of desired collection for each area within the discipline of Osteopathic Medicine, Pharmacy and related sciences. Selection is based on the AACP and AACOM list of recommended resources, reviews in the medical and library literature, course requirements and faculty requests. How well the collection meets the needs of faculty and students is determined by monitoring the usage statistics of electronic resources, borrowing rates of print materials, and interlibrary loan requests.