The Library of the College of Medicine was established with the founding of the college in 1987 to achieve the general goal of supporting, developing, and serving the curriculum of the college by selecting and preserving library materials related to this curriculum, covering all specializations of the college, through acquiring, processing, and organizing sources and information to ensure easy access to them through:
1. Lending services: The library is concerned with providing services to all faculty members, medical staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students of the college and the university hospital, and others, as it contains a rich collection of medical knowledge materials by providing the necessary information that benefits them in research and study.
2. Using computers in searching for scientific sources through websites, international scientific databases, and local databases (books and periodicals databases).
3. Making necessary contacts with specialized libraries and information institutions to benefit from services and exchange information.
4. Participating in courses and seminars inside and outside the country to keep pace with scientific developments in the field of libraries and information.

Services:
The library provides its services to beneficiaries, including professors, students, and researchers, through administrative units represented in technical services, free education, and automated search:
Free Education Library:
It includes all curriculum books distributed to faculty members, postgraduate and undergraduate students, with annual updates of old editions.
Technical Services:
It undertakes to supply the library with books, periodicals, reports, theses, dissertations, and other documents, along with a special library for CDs, and organizes them through cataloging and classification, building a manual card catalog and an automated catalog through:
- Internal reading service.
- External lending service.
Automated Search:
Facilitating access to information and easing research and study methods by providing information, research sources, and knowledge needed by students and faculty members according to their specialization through searching databases and referring to the virtual scientific library website.
Next Steps:
1. Mechanization of library work and services:
Available databases:
- Books database.
- Periodicals database.
Planned databases:
- Database of Iraqi intellectual output represented by theses and doctoral dissertations issued by our college.
- Mechanization of lending operations for books and periodicals.
- Mechanization of free education operations.

2- Development of source collections of books, periodicals, and electronic sources.
3- Development of information services.
4- Development of technical procedures for cataloging and classification by relying on the automated index available on the website of the National Library of Medicine, whose classification system the library adopts.
5- Indexing and abstracting services for Iraqi medical intellectual output represented by the database of Iraqi theses and dissertations.
6- Development of library staff.