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 3 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 Monday to Saturday, 4 hours on Sundays and Hospital working days.

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. In addition, September 2022 we opened the Second personal book reading hall in the library building second floor, this section is kept open till 7.00am to 11.00pm (All 365 days) 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

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.		LIBSOFT	http://14.98.218.149/libsoft.aspx

PARAPHRASING TOOL

Sl. No	Service	Description
1.	Quillbot – Grammar Checker	Ensure accurate grammar, do spell check, verify punctuation, and rectify numerous grammatical problems. Additionally, there is a complimentary essay checker, grammar checker, and various other tools available to enhance academic success.
2.	Quillbot – Paraphraser	The multilingual paraphrasing tool helps you rewrite and improve the clarity of any sentence, paragraph, or article.
3	Quillbot – Flow	An all-in-one writing space that combines all of QuillBot’s tools in one location with built-in grammar checking, allowing you to paraphrase, summarize, research, create citations, and write your essay without having to shift between tools.
4	Quillbot – Summarizer	QuillBot Summarizer can seamlessly condense content with precision using features like paragraph mode, key points extraction, and the ability to create custom modes for a tailored summarization experience.
5	Quillbot – Translator	QuillBot Translator simplifies cross-language communication, ensuring accuracy and clarity in diverse contexts, making language barriers a thing of the past.
6	Scribbr – Citation Generator	Describe or evaluate your sources according to APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, etc., and let Scribbr’s Citation Generator find and fill in all the relevant information automatically.

Visit https://quillbot.com/, sign up using your official email ID and set up a password. 2) Click on the verification email you received to activate Premium.

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.	CLINICALKEY	Elsevier	https://www.clinicalkey.com
2.	CLARIVATE	Web of Science	https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/basic-search
3.	LWW	UpToDate	https://www.uptodate.com/contents/search
4.	BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL	BMJ	https://www.bmj.com/
5.	CBS E-BOOKS	CBS	https://eduport-global.com/
6.	ITHENTICATE:	Plagiarism Software	Through Librarian

DATABASE THROUGH RGUHS

Sl. No	Databases	Sources	Website Link
7.	ProQuest
8.	EBSCO
9.	Clinical Key student	Through RGUHS	rguhs.remotlog.com
10.	Access Medicine
11.	Thieme
12.	Complete 3D Anatomy

SERVICES RENDED BY THE LIBRARY

o Issuing Books and Journals
o Remote Access (Through Mlibrary mobile app)
o Books / Journals Issuing and Returning SMS Facility
o Books / Journals Reservation Facility
o OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) LIBSOFT Software
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
o Seminars & author workshop

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

9. LIBRARY TIMINGS

LIBRARY CLOSED ONLY ON HOSPITAL HOLIDAYS

FRONT OFFICE & CIRCULATION COUNTER

REFERENCE
SECTION

JOURNAL
SECTION

LENDING
SECTION

COMPUTER
LAB

II FLOOR PERSONAL BOOK READING HALL

GOLDEN JUBILEE BLOCK READING ROOM