The Nathalie Wolfe Pediatric Sciences Library
The Medical Library provides knowledge-based and consumer health information to the hospital’s physicians, administration and staff, and to the parents of the hospital's patients. If you need help finding medical information resources, let us help you. We have several computer stations available for physicians, staff and students.
The library is open every Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is located on the ground floor of Valley Children’s Hospital, room G280, across from Infectious Disease/Rheumatology. Our mailstop is GE-12 and our telephone number is 559-353-6178.
Scholarly Activities / Archives Project
The Medical Library compiles an archive of articles, books and book chapters contributed to or written by our medical and interprofessional staff. If you have any publications that have been published or are planning to publish any time in the future, please email your bibliography or the article citation to msensano@valleychildrens.org or send it to mail stop GE-12, ATTN: Michele. Please make sure to let us know that this is for the Archival Project.
Family Resource Center
The Family Resource Center (FRC) provides hospital patients, their families and staff with a variety of Consumer Health Information and child health and well-being materials. Families can also access the internet for consumer health information and to keep in touch with loved ones who cannot be here. Book check-out services are for employees only. Copies, print-outs, faxing and scanning are free of charge.
George's Book Club, Valley Children's Literacy Program
Valley Children’s Healthcare is uniquely positioned to make a difference in the literacy of every child who walks through our doors. It is the aim of George’s Book Club to put a new, age-appropriate book into the hands of every child who comes into our Hospital. Currently, we provide 1,500-2,000 new books a month to our patients.
Studies have shown that children from poor socio-economic environments can start kindergarten having heard 30 million fewer words than their more affluent peers. Putting books into the hands of families that cannot afford them can go a long way in increasing literacy rates and performance in school, highlighting the importance of making books a part of normal life for every child who visits Valley Children’s.
Our program has received generous book donations from organizations like Barnes & Noble, Reading Heart, Walmart, Ace Hardware and the Children’s Miracle Network Foundation. This kind of giving helps immensely as Valley Children’s stringent infection control guidelines only allows for new, unused books to be handed out for the safety and wellbeing of our patients.