Beneath a red awning tucked between Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar and a mere big brown bag's throw from Bloomingdale's in Palo Alto's Stanford Shopping Center is a small space filled with books and people eager to help those who step inside.
The walls are lined with literature, but this is no upscale boutique shop offering the latest popular titles. It is the Stanford Health Library, a vast collection of up-to-date resources and information that is free to the public and staffed with a team of almost 80 expert volunteers - including several retired doctors and nurses - offering research assistance.
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The library also maintains a Web site, with more than 10,000 links - including one that allows users to select information in 59 foreign languages alphabetically arranged from Albanian to Vietnamese.
The site provides "trustworthy information that's organized," said Dickenson, who has a master's degree in library science and has been with the library for eight years. "We always provide quality information and weed out the detritus. There's a lot of junk out there."
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The library also maintains a Web site, with more than 10,000 links - including one that allows users to select information in 59 foreign languages alphabetically arranged from Albanian to Vietnamese.
The site provides "trustworthy information that's organized," said [head librarian Nancy] Dickenson, who has a master's degree in library science and has been with the library for eight years. "We always provide quality information and weed out the detritus. There's a lot of junk out there."
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