Virtual Medical Library for Online Medical Education

Abstract

The Virtual Medical Library is an initiative under the Virtual Medical University - Medvarsity’s Mission. It has been assigned a critical role in supporting Medical Education and evidence based medical practice. The advents of Internet and associated technologies have become handy for collection development, and management of ever-increasing volume of information available by remote access. The library is actively involved in collection, collation and dissemination of the Internet sources by applying conventional library organization methods and use of modern Internet associated tools and techniques. The methodology is being described in this paper.