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The Albion Street Centre library has over 15 years experience in collecting, organising and accessing information on HIV and has one of the most comprehensive collections of material in Australia. The library is the NSW State Reference Centre for HIV information and is also an UNAIDS Information Support Centre, specialising in the medical, psychological, nutritional and treatment aspects of HIV.

By collecting, organising and disseminating HIV information from around the world, and enabling access to this information through print and electronic formats the library supports the Centre’s aims of:

Providing optimal and comprehensive treatment, education and prevention services for persons affected by HIV
Being responsive to the needs of the general community and the changing focus of the epidemic

The library is one of five libraries in the NSW HIV Library Network (HALN), which provides access to a wider range of resources for both internal and external users, as well as minimising the duplication of information through effective resource sharing. The network’s achievements include:

Development of a thesaurus
Creation of a combined database. The HALN database was started in 1990, and it contains references to journal articles, conference papers, research reports and unpublished materials covering a wide range of subjects concerning HIV. This database is now published by RMIT as the HIVA Database and released quarterly on the AUSTHEALTH compilation CD ROM
Professional collaboration and networking. Members meet monthly and have a cooperative agreement for the exchange of information between member libraries

The Albion Street Centre library has many resources in print and electronic formats including:

Books
CD ROMs
Journals
Online databases, including:
- MEDLINE – the primary source of references to biomedical literature
- Cochrane Library – primary single source of reliable evidence about the effects of health care
- CINAHL - the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
- HealthSTAR – focuses on both clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. Looks at health services, technology, administration and research
- Micromedex – clinical decision support system, providing comprehensive drug, acute care and toxocological information
- MIMS online – Australia’s most comprehensive and authoritative pharmaceutical database
- Ovid Core Biomedical Collection – full-text access to 15 core biomedical journals
- Ovid Nursing Collection – full-text access to 15 core nursing journals.
Newspaper clippings
Internet access
Infection control videos
Audiocassettes.

The collections’ strengths lie in the following areas, and largely reflect the services offered by the Centre:

Medical – treatments and care
Psychological – counselling
Nutritional
Prevention – education

Users of the Library include:

Albion Street Centre staff
Albion Street Centre clients
South East Sydney and Illawarra Health Service staff
Other HIV organisations
Health care workers
Hospital libraries
Students
General public
Overseas agencies

Access to online databases is through the NSW Health Department's Clinical Information Access Project (CIAP).

N.B. Please telephone on (02) 9332 9600 to make an appointment to use the library or email Albion Street Centre Library. Library hours are 9am - 5pm Monday - Thursday, 9am - 4pm Friday.

Library services include:

Electronic database searching
Resource lending
Information retrieval
Inter-Library loans

Albion Street Centre
150 - 154 Albion Street Surry Hills NSW 2010 Australia
Telephone: +61 2 9332 9600 Fax: +61 2 9331 3490

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