The Lillian F. Phillips Library

The Lillian F. Phillips Library at the Swedish Institute is a modern reference and lending library located on the sixth floor. The library offers an extensive selection of current books and periodicals, as well as audiotapes and videotapes. There is also a valuable collection of rare and historically significant books dating back to the 1890's, used when the school was founded in 1916.

Books are classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification System and can be located by searching the computer database. The current catalog has over 2,000 holdings listed.

Services

The library is open for reference and study during the following hours when classes are in session:

Monday through Friday 

8:00 AM to 8:30 PM

Saturday  

11:00 AM to 4:00 PM

The library is open to all students, staff, faculty and alumni who have valid school identification.

The computers have Internet access for students' use in doing research for assignments. There are also monitors with headphones for viewing videotapes.

In order to serve students who are visually impaired or blind, the library has been equipped with special computer software that can enlarge text, scan and read text, or read information aloud from the computer and Internet. There are also tactile textbooks and tactile anatomical charts.

In order to sign out a circulating book, students and faculty members need to show their identification to the librarian. Books generally circulate for 7 days, with a 7 day renewal option.

The Collection

The library offers an extensive collection of books, periodicals, audiotapes and videotapes that support the study of both Western and Eastern approaches to health care. The collection is very up-to-date, with texts, periodicals and other research materials carefully chosen by the Deans of each program, the Dean for Academic Affairs, and the Chairpersons of departments within the programs. Faculty, librarians and members of the administration also recommend books and other materials based on their own practices and research in a given field.

Among the library's holdings are works written or produced by our faculty and alumni.

Michael Alicia, LMT. The Stretching Process. Videotape that highlights stretching of the body as an integral part of massage therapy.

Susanrachel Condon, LMT. Advanced Pregnancy Massage Techniques. Videotape for professional therapists that features advanced myofascial and Swedish techniques for side-lying pregnancy massage.

Jill Thompson, M.Div., LMT., Introduction to Pathology for the Massage Practitioner. Published in 1985 by the Swedish Institute as a pathology textbook.

Jill Thompson, M.Div., LMT., Theology of Touch. Written in 1978 as a master's thesis on the spiritual nature of intentional touch and massage.

Jeffrey C. Yuen. Alchemical Qi Gong. Videotape produced by American University of Complimentary Medicine and LifeScope Productions, showing Jeffrey C. Yuen, Dean for Academic Affairs of the Acupuncture Program, performing a Qi Gong exercise.

Jeffrey C. Yuen. Materia Medica of Essential Oils Based on a Chinese Medical Perspective. Published in 2000 by Jeffrey C. Yuen. A listing of essential oils and their therapeutic properties, for use by acupuncturists.

Jeffrey C. Yuen. TCM Treatment of Western Diseases. Published in 1990 by the Swedish Institute.

Thomas Claire, LMT, Bodywork: What Type of Massage to Get and How to Make the Most of It (William Morrow and Company, 1995).

Carl Dubitsky, LMT, Bodywork Shiatsu (Healing Arts Press, 1997).

Anthony Guglielmo, LMT, A Walrus on My Table: Touching True Stories of Animal Healing (St. Martin's Press, 2000)

Elaine Stillerman, LMT, Encyclopedia of Bodywork, from Acupressure to Zone Therapy (Facts on File, 1996).

Elaine Stillerman, LMT, Mother Massage (Dell Publishing, 1992).

Alumni who have published a book or videotape, please call our librarian at 212.924.5900 ext. 134, or email us at library@swedishinstitute.edu, to let us know about it. We would be happy to list your work and, if it is still available, add it to our collection.

For more information

See the Library section in About the Institute. Contact the Library at library@swedishinstitute.edu or call 212.924.5900 ext. 134.

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