Our library services for inpatients and their families started at Hamamatsu Red Cross Hospital in March, 1999. The services are offered by the librarian at the medical library in this hospital, once a week almost every Wednesday at the lecture room in our hospital. We provide human health information and lend books, compact disks, etc. We lend photographical books and art books, especially to the patients under the palliative care in order to make them feel comfortable and peaceful. One of our future plans is to expand these services to outpatients every weekday. For this purpose, we need to secure a room for this.
