HISTORY
The Central library was initially housed on the first floor of St. John’s Medical College building with a huge area provided for stocking books, back volumes of periodicals and current journals.

During the early period (1974) a branch the Library was housed at St. Martha’s Hospital, catering to the needs of the staff of St. John’s Medical College, Registrars, Students, and Interns. The library was taken by staff in-charge, a clerk and helper attached to St. John’s Medical College. The Library was kept open for a few hours and the borrowing facility was provided only to the members of SJMC. But the reference services were continued to the Staff of St. Martha’s Hospital, as well large number of students from various Medical Institutions and Medical Practitioners from in and around Bangalore. This library was shifted to St. John’s Medical College in the year 1981, when all the clinical departments were shifted to St. John’s Medical College Hospital leaving behind 75% of books, Journals, and furniture at St. Martha’s.

However, library was shifted to the new separated building on 24th February 1986 named as Zablocki Learning Centre, derived its name after Clement John Zablocki, who was our benefactor and a US Congress Member of Wisconsin in 1948.

PRESENT
The new building consists of 2 floors; reference books are stocked on the ground floor, while the lending section, current periodicals and back volumes of five years are stocked on the first floor. Both the floors have adequate reading area. Space has also been provided for Audio-visual Aids, Microfilms and Seminar room. The library is kept open 14 hours during weekdays, 12 hours on Saturdays and 4 hours on Sundays and Hospital working days and College Holidays.

On 8th March 2016, the Golden Jubilee block was inaugurated. In the first-floor personal book reading section has been provided for our UG and PG students. The section is kept open till 11 pm and during the examination time it kept open 24 hours. The back volumes of bound journals and Serial publications are stocked in Golden Jubilee Block Lecture theatre – 1 basement.

LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
Books      - 41959
Bound Volumes      - 28260
Thesis      - 2050
Offline E-Books       - 3634
Online E-Books from ClinicalKey (Elsevier)      - 1392
Online E-Journals from ClinicalKey (Elsevier)      - 855
Online E-Books from Jaypee Digital      - 2935
CD Version Books / Journals       - 667

SUBSCRIBED JOURNALS
International Print Journals      - 79
International Print + Online Journals      - 10
International Only Online Journals       - 19
National Print Journals     - 44

SERVICES
Our Library also changed as per the todays’ needs, the databases are made available in single platform, could see all the databases in single window. The readers can access all these databases in the institutional desktops as well as at home through remote access. We have, UpToDate, Web of Science, BMJ, and Turnitin an international Plagiarism software. The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science is providing two online databases i.e. Clinical key and Jaypee Digital under the Helinet consortium to all affiliated Colleges. These resources can be accessed through Library Remote Access (stjohns.knimbus.com) which is customized portal as per our requirements just like a physical library.

LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Sl. No	Publishers	Database Name	Website Link
1.		EasyLib	http://10.60.10.15:1234/easylib/

LIBRARY REMOTE ACCESS

Sl. No	Publishers	Database Name	Website Link
1.		Knimbus Remote Access	https://stjohns.knimbus.com/user#/home
2.		Library Remote App	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elib.knimbusapp

ST. JOHN’S SUBSCRIBED ONLINE MEDICAL DATABASES

Sl. No	Publishers	Database Name	Website Link
1.		UpToDate	https://www.uptodate.com/contents/search
2.		BMJ	https://www.bmj.com/
3.		Web of Science	http://apps.webofknowledge.com/WOS_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=WOS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&SID=C1hm3og5kAyac2fIfuA&preferencesSaved=
4.		Ithenticate: Plagiarism Software	https://www.ithenticate.com/

RGUHS HELINET CONSORTIUM

Sl. No	Publishers	Database Name	Website Link
1.		ClinicalKey	https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/
2.		Jaypee Digital	https://www.jaypeedigital.com/home

SERVICES RENDED BY THE LIBRARY

o Issuing Books and Journals
o Books / Journals Issuing and Returning SMS Facility
o Books / Journals Reservation Facility
o OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) Easylib Management Software
o Remote Access
o Outsiders: Reference and Xerox Facilities
o Internet / Meddler (Pub-med) Photocopies
o Reading Facility Out of Routine Library Hours
o System of Cataloguing - AACR - 2 (NLM)
o Air Conditioned

SPECIAL SERVICES OFFERED
o Inter Library Loan Facility was Provided to our Staff and Students with the help of Library Borrowers Cards from Outside Institutions

o Photocopies of Articles were Provided on Request from CMC, Vellore, Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay and National Medical Library, Delhi for our Research Staff and PG Students

o Photocopies were Supplied to Outsiders on Request

o Audio Visual Aids

LIBRARY TIMINGS
o Monday to Friday 8.00 a.m. - 10.30 p.m.
o Saturday 8.00 a.m. - 09.00 p.m.
o Sundays & Holidays 1.30 p.m. - 05.30 p.m.

FOR OUTSIDERS
o Monday to Friday 9.00 a.m. - 07.00 p.m.
o Saturday 9.00 a.m. - 04.30 p.m.

LIBRARY CLOSED ONLY ON HOSPITAL HOLIDAYS

CIRCULATION COUNTER

COMPUTER SECTION

REFERENCE SECTION

FIRST FLOOR LENDING
SECTION

GOLDEN JUBILEE BLOCK PERSONAL READING HALL