The development of medical education in Uganda is credited to the early Church Missionary Society and the work of one of its missionaries, Dr. Sir Albert Ruskin Cook (referred to as the Father of Modern Medicine in Uganda), who established Mengo Hospital in 1897. Later in 1924, Dr. Cook established the current Albert Cook Medical Library. When the Faculty of Medicine was established in 1946, this library started catering for medical education.

It was the first health library in Uganda and today it houses the archives of the Sir Albert Cook's original hand-written patient records, personal letters and photographs dating back to 1900. In 1965, the medical library was named after its founder, hence its official name ‘Sir Albert Cook Memorial Library’. It is a branch of Makerere University Library Services and Uganda's major biomedical/health sciences library. 

Opening Hours

Due to the Covid19 pandemic, the Library is currently open from 8.00 am - 5.00 pm Monday to Friday and remains closed on weekends and public holidays.

E-Resources

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Research4Life: https://www.research4life.org/

PubMed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

Makerere Undergraduate Dissertation Repository: http://dissertations.mak.ac.ug/

Makerere University Institutional Repository: http://makir.mak.ac.ug/

Our Services

• Borrowing
• Lending services
• Plagiarism Detection
• Photocopying
• Referencing
• Research Support
• Training
• Wi-fi access
• E-learning support
• Evidence synthesis

Useful Links

Online catalogue: http://www.makula.mak.ac.ug:8080/?theme=maklib1

Makerere University Library: https://mulib.mak.ac.ug/