About MF Library

Medicine Faculty Library (MFL) of Vilnius University stores about 60 thousand books and 25 thousand journals. Every year the Library stock is replenished with almost 2.5 thousand publications. Lithuanian medicine journals of about 30 titles and foreign medicine journals of about 40 titles are available in the MF Library. Visitors can also use encyclopaedias, atlases, dictionaries, Internet sources. In addition, new books are regularly exhibited in the Library. There are 32 workplaces in the Reading room of Medicine Faculty. MF Library provides academic society of the Medicine Faculty with educational and scientific literature, and presents information about new books and electronic resources.

Services

Only readers having reader’s card (student ID card or VU staff ID card) are served in the Library. Publications are lent out for one evening, a week or longer period (from 1 to 6 months) considering the available number and demand of publications. The last copy of a document, or encyclopaedias, atlases, dictionaries and periodical publications are not lent out. Publications are not delivered to those readers who fail to return the borrowed matter.

More information about services provided by Vilnius University Central Library and Medicine Faculty Library is available at Vilnius university Library

Resourses

Public Health Electronic Research Tools – PDF

Public Health, Epidemiology books Collection – PDF

Journals Collection – PDF

Other publications stored in the MF Library can be found in the VUL e- catalogue; select storage place (Location) “Medicinos fak. biblioteka”. If you wish to access the English version of the VUL e-catalogue, press . Ordering of publications in the MF Library on the Internet is not available. On the Internet you can order publications which are stored in Vilnius University Central Library only (more information).

MF Library website is regularly supplemented with collection of useful medicine references Delicious. The main tags of Delicious include M-Libraries (bibliotekos), M-databases (duomenų bazės), M-bookshops (knygynai), M-institutions (įstaigos), M-resources (ištekliai), M-periodical publications (periodika), etc.

Opening hours

Readers are served from Monday to Friday 8.30 – 17.00

The last working day of the current month is The clean-up day, and therefore readers are not served.

Note: service time may change during the period when textbooks are being issued.