Distinguished as the first library established by a medical school in the United States, the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) provides collections and services for faculty, staff, and students of the University of Maryland, Baltimore as well as for the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC).
The Library also serves as the Regional Medical Library for the Southeastern/Atlantic Region in the National Library of Medicine’s National Network of Libraries of Medicine. The Southeastern/Atlantic Region serves 10 southeastern states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
| Founded | 1813 | |
| Use | 9,959,513 | page views for website |
| 24,741 | reference questions answered | |
| 4,308 | class participants | |
| 72,928 | items circulated | |
| 15,001 | items loaned through interlibrary loan | |
| 311,330 | visitors to 601 W. Lombard Street | |
| 102.5 | hours open weekly | |
| Holdings | 25,498 | eJournals |
| 163 | print-only journal subscriptions | |
| 97 | databases | |
| 368,745 | print volumes | |
| Special Collections | Woodward Historical & Special Collections | |
| Kinnard Leisure Reading Collection | ||
| Technology | 50 | public access computers |
| 1,500 | data connections | |
| 3 | microcomputer classrooms | |
| Space | 190,000 | gross square feet |
| 118,000 | net assignable square feet | |
| 900 | seats | |
| 45 | group study rooms | |
| 130 | individual study carrels | |
| Staff | 30.10 | FTE professional librarians |
| 38.50 | FTE staff members |
These figures are based on data reported for the 2006-2007 Annual Statistics of Medical School Libraries in the United States and Canada, 30th Edition, Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Annual Statistics, 2008.
