About Levy Library: Mission and Vision

Commitment to Addressing Racism

The Levy Library is committed to critically examining and improving our practices and resources, educating ourselves in dialogue with others, and engaging in Mount Sinai efforts to address racism and ensure a more anti-racist, equitable and inclusive community.

Mission

The mission of the Gustave L. and Janet W. Levy Library is to provide inclusive and high-quality resources, services, instruction and learning environments that enable successful education, research and health care delivery for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the entire Mount Sinai Health System community.

Updated August 21, 2024

Vision

The Levy Library strives to meet Mount Sinai’s health and science information needs anytime, anywhere. We are recognized as an equitable and inclusive partner in the learning community and a knowledge center connecting students, faculty, and staff with resources and services to enable innovation and dissemination of Mount Sinai scholarly activity within and beyond our community.

Updated August 21, 2024

Ways We Support Mount Sinai

Education:

• Promote information literacy and facilitate the pursuit of lifelong learning across the continuum for all students, faculty, and staff.

• Partner with faculty to instruct students and residents in developing clinical questions and finding the best evidence.

• Work with faculty in the development and management of interactive, visual, and engaging courses and the preserving and indexing of curriculum content.

Research:

• License research databases, software tools and data management systems for the sciences, allied health, and clinical communities of the institution.

• Collaborate with the scientific community to create infrastructure and access tools for data manipulation, management, retention, retrieval and use.

• Partner with faculty to facilitate new forms of scholarly communication in the digital age.

• Collaborate with the IRB to promote librarian expertise in database searching to reduce institutional risk and exposure of conducting clinical research.

Clinical Practice:

• License resources and develop guides for the quick retrieval of information and documents used for clinical guidelines and everyday practice.

• Partner with the care teams to provide information support and expert searching for complex and unusual clinical cases.

• Collaborate with developers of institutional knowledge management systems such as the electronic medical record and clinical desktops to provide seamless linking to the medical literature.

• Assist in the identification and management of patient care tools and guidelines.