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WAMC Medical Library and Learning Resource Center: WAMC Medical Library

Welcome to the Womack Army Medical Center Medical Library

About Us

Mission Statement: The library will provide accurate and timely information to the Womack Army Medical Center team to support the MEDCEN mission of providing the highest quality health care, maximizing the medical deployability of the force, ensuring the readiness of Womack personnel and sustaining exceptional education and training programs.

Womack Army Medical Center Information Phone Number: 910-907-6000

WAMC Medical Library Phone Number: 910-907-7323

The medical library does not have information on hospital or patient records. Please call the general information line to be routed to the correct department.

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Services

  • Article Retrieval
  • Literature Searches
  • Proctoring
  • Manuscript Assistance
  • Technology Assistance
  • Continuing Education Assistance
  • Proctoring is available through the Department of Graduate Medical Education. Please contact them directly for assistance.

Library Instruction

The library staff is happy to provide personalized instruction using the online suite of tools available to WAMC staff and students.  You can come to us or we can come to you.  Group instruction is available as well as one on one sessions.  Stop by the library, call, or email to set up a training session. 

PubMed

PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.  The National Library of Medicine along with the National Institutes of Health maintain the PubMed database. 

PubMed is a great place to start your research.  Create a profile to save searches, view recent activity, manage your bibliography, and set search filters. 

Visit PubMed here.

Available Resources

Interlibrary Loan

Articles and books not available through the AMEDD Virtual Library or WAMC's collection can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.  Depending on availability and the fulfilling institution, articles take about 1-7 days to come in.  If available, book requests typically take two to four weeks. 

In order to request an interlibrary loan, please provide as much of the following information as possible:

  • Your name
  • Article title
  • Article authors
  • Journal name
  • Date of publication
  • Page numbers
  • Issue and volume number if available
  • PubMed ID if available
  • If the article is required for patient care, please specify

To place an Interlibrary Loan, contact us at 910-907-7323 or email.

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Location

Womack Army Medical Center

2817 Rock Merritt Avenue

Fort Liberty, NC 28310

6th Floor, Room C61013-1

Hours

Monday-Thursday: 0730-1600

Friday: 0730-1530

Phone

Library Office: 910-907-7323

Email is the quickest way to receive assistance.

Email

usarmy.liberty.medcom-wamc.mbx.dmed-medical-library@health.mil

US Army MWR Library Program

 

J.L. Throckmorton Library

Gen. John Lathrop Throckmorton, a veteran of World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Detroit riots, commanded both the 82nd Airborne Division and the XVIII Airborne Corps during his time at Fort Liberty. He later retired after over 35 years of service.

The Throckmorton Library was built in 1997. It replaced the earlier post library on Macomb Street, near where the 82nd Sustainment Brigade's post office now stands.

Throckmorton Library Mission Statement

To support readiness and the military mission:  Professional military and technical education and training; Personal and technical skill development of members of the military community; Quality of life at home, when deployed or assigned to remote locations; Voluntary education and lifelong learning; Transition and career assistance; Relocation assistance and leisure needs of the military community.

Disclaimer

The appearance of hyperlinks or videos does not constitute endorsement by the Army of non-U.S. Government sites or the information, products, or services contained therein. Although the Army may or may not use these sites as additional distribution channels for Department of Defense information, it does not exercise editorial control over all of the information that you may find at these locations. Such links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this website.