North Carolina is divided into nine regions with an Area Health Education Center (AHEC) in each region. Each AHEC includes library and information services to support the clinical, educational, and research activities of regional health professionals and students. These regional AHEC libraries make up the NC AHEC Information & Library System. As a core service of the NC AHEC Program, the libraries have a mission to meet the state's health and health work force needs by providing community-based, customer-driven access to authoritative and current health information.
AHEC Libraries are staffed by masters-level trained librarians and information professionals who have specialized training in providing health sciences information to individual health professionals, hospitals and other institutions. The AHEC Libraries provide an array of services including access to electronic and print information resources; general and customized educational sessions; article and document delivery; and customized searches of the medical literature. The NC AHEC Library & Information System also offers a statewide portal of electronic information resources-the AHEC Digital Library.
In 2006-2007 AHEC Libraries circulated over 86,000 resources to North Carolina health professionals. Library staff made over 650 outreach visits to hospitals, clinics, and health agencies and delivered 2500 consultations. In addition, the AHEC Digital Library provided customized access to over $525,000 worth of resources to a membership of over 15,000 health professionals and students who had well over 202,000 documented user sessions.
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