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The nursing collection primarily supports the current and anticipated curricula, scholarly reading and research needs of the School of Nursing community from the beginning student to the more sophisticated and diverse needs of graduate students and faculty.

It supports the four major departments of the School of Nursing, that is, Adult Health, Maternal-Child Health, Mental Health, and Community Health which are comprised of various areas of concentration. It also provides resources in bioethics and health information to the university as a whole and to appropriate economics, sociology, psychology, bioethics, and pre-medical classes.

There is comprehensive collecting of nursing materials in the English language, selected foreign language serial titles, and varying levels of bioethics and related health science materials. The collection provides historical materials in nursing as well as the most current resources in clinical practice. The collection consists of more than 58,000 books on nursing, medicine, health sciences and bioethics; 1300 nursing, health and medical serials including more than 800 periodicals; numerous related databases and more than 200 audiovisual titles.

In addition, the library owns several large microfiche sets covering such areas as nursing history and nursing dissertations. As a government depository library, the O'Neill Library selectively collects publications of the Government Printing Office, including eighty percent of the publications of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Essential resources to begin your research in Nursing are included in this Research Guide. Additional information and consultation are available from the Nursing Librarian, Wanda Anderson (617 552-4457; anderswb@bc.edu )