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, WMorris116@A... wrote:

> I'll concur on that Rory - your school has one of the best

acupuncture school

> libraries in the country as far as professionalism, inter-library

loan

> contracts and English language materials.

 

Rory

 

What school library do you have access to? I am also curious

as to what other libraries are particularly good?

 

I have to plug the library of my alma mater, OCOM. The school

president is a Ph.D. anthropologist (thesis in tibetan musicology

-- she was also a former concert pianist). Anyway, she is a very

serious academic and the library has always been top priority.

The collection includes everything on east asian medicine in

english (including all books covering history, anthropology,

philosophy, etc.) While living in Oregon, I recall the school

always had new publications within a month of release. OCOM

also has current subscriptions to all CM journals and many

others, plus complete sets of back issues. They also have

growing collections of materials in east asian languages. The

library collection is all catalogued on computer and the school

has developed coding schemes for books on TEAM that is

based upon that used by the national library of medicine for

western med.

 

If one makes it to Portland and just loves the study of herbs in

general, the library at the National College of Naturopathic

Medicine contains the country's largest collection of older texts

on herbology (excepting perhaps the Lloyd library in Cinncinati).

The shelves contain hundreds of original editions of 19th century

eclectic, physiomedicalist, thomsonian and homeopathic

literature plus issues of journals from that era. Not to mention

books on greek, unani, jewish, ayurvedic and other forms of

herbology. also a very large collection of modern journals on

every aspect of herbology. The librarian has specialized in this

area for over 20 years and is a published author on the history of

naturopathy.