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The Kelly Library Collection
General Information
The library is on the third floor of 150 California Street Newton, MA 02458. The library houses books, archives, videos, audiotapes, dvds and journals,
as well as study and reading space. Videos and dvds may be watched and listened to at our
AV station in the library. There are also computers available for access to the library
catalog,
e-journals and databases.
Journals, reserve and reference books
are not available for circulation but may be read or photocopied in the library. Photocopies
can be made for $0.10 per page in the library. Faculty, and students are welcome to use the
Kelly Library for quiet study during open hours. Cell phones may not be used and should
not be allowed to ring while in the library. Please protect the collection and leave the blinds drawn as natural lighting is destructive to our collection.
Library Hours
The library is open regular hours while school is in
session. Please contact the library during school breaks for library hours.
Regular Hours: Monday - Thursday, 9:00AM - 9:00PM
Saturday 1:00PM - 6:00PM
(Closed Friday and Sunday)
The Collection
The Kelly Library supports NESA's academic programs through a collection of books,
journals, and multi-media resources on Acupuncture and
Oriental Medicine. The growing collection focuses on traditional and modern
Acupuncture with origins in China, Japan, Korea, and other East Asian cultures. The collection
includes in-depth information on Chinese Herbal Medicine, as well as other aspects of Oriental
Medicine, culture, philosophy and history. In addition, the collection contains a number of
science and biomedical texts, along with materials about a variety of alternative and
complementary medicine modalities. Information regarding Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
licensing procedures and regulations, newsletters from professional organizations, and general
information relevant to the Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine profession is available in
the library as well. Past course syllabi are also housed in the collection and are available
for reading in the library.
As of March 2008 the library maintains subscriptions to some 73 print
journals newsletters. An additional 86 journals
newsletters which have either ceased publishing or for which we have no current
subscription are also available. In addition to its print collection, the
Kelly Library offers users journal articles in electronic formats (PDF and HTML) through the library's
website: access is available directly from journal publishers and through research databases.
NESA students, faculty and alum have access to over 2400 print and electronic journals through
the library's resources.
Subscription databases can be accessed through the internet using the barcode number
from your NESA ID card.
At the end of March 2008 there were over 5733 books, CDs and audio/visual cassettes, and
journal issues held in the print collection.
All journals received in the library are indexed at an
article level in one of the bibliographic
research databases
available through the library's website or in the library's own database, OMLit©;
as such there is a record for most articles held in the library's collection. Using the
library's OMLit© database and the research databases
users can locate journal articles in the collection. As of March 2008 there are now 34688 articles
cited in the Kellyarticles database; this number grows by 100-300 articles each month. There is
no other resource available that can provide this level of access to literature relevant to
Oriental Medicine.
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