Finding Health Information at the Glendale Public Library and on the Internet

Circulating books - Suggested subjects

• You do not need to capitalize or punctuate when entering search words in the catalog.
• Enter HEALTH as a subject; see list of "See Also" references
• Alternative Health
• Self-Care, Health
• Physical fitness
• Exercise
• Reducing Diets
• Nutrition
• Weight loss
• Holistic medicine
• Name of disease or condition:

  Diabetes
  Heart-Diseases
  Hypertension - Popular Works

Reference books - Suggested online catalog subjects to search:

• Medicine - Dictionaries
• Medicine - Encyclopedias
• Medicine - Handbooks, manuals
• Internal Medicine

  Also search the reference shelves in the Dewey call numbers 610 through 618. Many health and medical reference books – such as anatomy books, prescription drug handbooks, medical encyclopedias, and medical dictionaries – are shelved behind the Reference Desk. Feel free to ask reference librarians to provide those books for you to use in the library.

Periodicals (magazines, journals, newspapers)

• Consumer Reports on Health
• Arthritis Today
• Health
• Harvard Mental Health Letter
• Johns Hopkins Medical Letter: Health After 50
• Men's Health
• Prevention

To find periodical articles, search in the Health and Wellness Resource Center

American Red Cross
Armenian Relief Society
Glendale "Healthlinks" - A page of links to useful Internet sites
Glendale YMCA
Glendale YWCA
Medline Plus - Health topics, drug information, medical encyclopedia, and more!
SeniorHealth - A website for older adults developed by the National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine
Healthfinder
California Medical Licensing Board
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
USNews.com - Health