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What the Library Can Do for You

We offer essential support across all centres by:

  • Assisting healthcare providers find and evaluate information
  • Providing literature searches and expert search consultation for clinical queries and research initiatives
  • Setting up AutoAlerts (emailed notifications of newly published journal articles on a specific topic)
  • Offering one-on-one, group, or site-wide orientations and training
  • Providing timely access to relevant resources, including document delivery and Interlibrary Loan (ILL)  (see Borrowing)
  • Helping users keep current in their specialty areas
  • Assisting with education events and courses
  • Creating web content for patients and the public and helping them find valid information (see Pathfinders)

Let us help you!  Contact the library today.

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BCCA CRC

Our libraries are OPEN to the public.

Our Vancouver, Abbotsford, Victoria, and Kelowna libraries are open for you to explore and get needed cancer information help from library staff. Contact the library site of your choice for more information today!

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Information Request Form

Review and submit the online Information Request Form with your patients and connect them to relevant and credible information.
WHERE CAN I GET IT?
Find the online form on the BC Cancer Library page or under Services for Patients.

How to borrow

Information on borrowing can be found on our General Borrowing Policies.


 The BC Cancer library system consists of a central library at Vancouver Centre (VC), and branches in Abbotsford (AC), Kelowna (SAHCSI), Prince George (CN), Surrey (FVC), and Victoria (VIC). All centres have patient resource collections in our Cancer Information Centres (CIC), and all centres have a professional collection on site. Professional resources for CN are housed in the adjacent UHNBC Library.
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