The mission of the William H. Welch Medical Library is "To provide the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and affiliates with information services that advance research, teaching, and patient care." The William H. Welch Medical Library collects current scholarly information, in print and electronic formats, which supports the research, clinical, administrative, and educational needs of its clients. The William H. Welch Medical Library collection covers health, the practice of medicine and related biomedical and allied health care disciplines, nursing, research literature, methodological literature, reviews or state-of-the-art reports, and in-depth, authoritative analyses of areas influencing biomedicine and health care. The Abraham M. Lilienfeld Library of the School of Hygiene and Public Health collects a wide variety of materials in the area of public health and its related disciplines. Welch's collections contain more than 400,000 bound volumes, 3,400 e-journals, over 500 e-books, over 250 databases and current subscriptions more than 1,300 print journals. The Adolf Meyer Library houses materials in the subject area of psychiatry, psychology, behavioral sciences, AIDS, anesthesiology, critical care medicine, neurology and neurosurgery. The Abraham M. Lilienfeld Memorial Library was dedicated in May 1990 in honor of Dr. Lilienfeld (1920-1984), a long term JHU faculty member and the father of modern epidemiology. The Abraham M. Lilienfeld Memorial Library collection is especially strong in epidemiology, the study of infectious diseases, health policy and management, the social aspects of health care, and HIV and the AIDS pandemic. The building at 1900 East Monument Street was named for Dr. William H. Welch, honoring his role in the creation of the library and in the establishment of the department of the History of Medicine. The Indiana limestone, Renaissance-style building was designed by Edward L. Tilton and has interiors enriched with seven varieties of marble, painted ceilings, 17th century Flemish tapestries and an ancient statue of Aesculapius, the Greek god of medicine. Two portraits of Dr. Welch may be found on the second floor, along with faculty portraits by John Singer Sargent, Cecilia Beaux, Thomas Corner and others. Col. Fielding H. Garrison, editor of the Index Catalogue, was recruited from the Surgeon General's Library as William H. Welch Medical Library’s first Librarian. Col. Garrison, in addition to being the editor of the Index Catalogue and the Index Medicus, wrote a major text in the history of medicine. He embodied two themes, history and innovation, which have characterized Welch's development ever since. Between 1948 and 1953, the Medical Indexing Project was established at Welch by Sanford V. Larkey, M.D., Director from 1935 to 1963. This project was the intellectual forebear of Science Citation Index, MeSH headings, and MEDLARS. Welch staff answers about 25,000 reference questions a year, about 1,000 of these are electronic. The library system delivers more than 52,000 articles annually to users' desktops. About 80,000 people visit Welch Library annually. The library collections were brought under computer management by Richard A. Polacsek, M.D., Librarian from 1969 until 1984. Welch was one of the earliest libraries to offer online searching of the literature to its patrons.