Mary A. Hower Medical Library
The Akron Children’s Hospital Mary Hower Medical Library enhances patient care and supports the education, research and decision-making activities of hospital staff by providing high quality information services and resources.
Resources and Services
The library’s resources include an extensive collection of pediatric materials in electronic formats, including databases, journals, e-books, and more. We are a member of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, OhioLINK and NEOMED consortium libraries.
Services include:
- Online literature searches: See the forms below. Our librarians will search for articles that meet your search needs. We will e-mail abstracts of the articles we find, and you can request the full text of articles you would like to read.
- Reference services: We will identify and locate books and other resources to meet your needs and answer your questions.
- Orientation and instruction: Reach out to us to request training in the use of library resources.
- Interlibrary Loan and Full-text article retrieval: Email us or use the tools on our pages to make requests.
