About Us

Welcome to Saint Thomas Health Libraries!

We provide current and authoritative medical, nursing, allied health, and healthcare management information in a variety of formats to Saint Thomas Health employees, clinical staff, and to the community from our three locations.  As our goal is to support clinical excellence in patient care asking us to search and retrieve the most relevant, evidence-base information allows you to spend more time doing what you do best…taking care of patients.

We are committed:

• To providing access to the most relevant and evidence-based information in support of the mission, goals, and clinical excellence of Saint Thomas Health Services and Ascension Health.
• To serve as a resource to patients, families, and all people in our communities and as advocates to the poor and underserved.
• To continuing improvement in quality through education and adaptation of technological advances.

Library facilities are available on the Baptist, Middle Tennessee Medical Center, and Saint Thomas campuses. We share electronic resources across the system but our print collections cater to the service lines most relevant at the campus level. Any of our resources are considered jointly owned so they can move from campus to campus upon request. To see if we own a particular item please visit  the Library Catalog link.

Each library provides basic services such as:

• Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan
• Mediated Literature Searching
• Computer access
• Reference
• Access to Consumer Health Information
• Information Skills Instruction

Each library also provides services unique to its campus. To view campus library services, please visit that library’s webpage by following its link on the left hand side of the page. All three libraries are committed to adhering to US Copyright Law. For more information on copyright click here.