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The Ninon Bourque Patient Resource Library

The Ninon Bourque Patient Resource library is dedicated to providing up-to-date, reliable cancer information to patients and their families. Financial assistance for the development of our collection was received from the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation.

The Library has over 1,500 books, video and audio cassettes, DVDs, CDs and CD-ROMs about cancer and related topics, such as nutrition, coping with cancer, relaxation techniques and more.

You can borrow items from the library for three weeks and renew for a further three weeks if the material has not been reserved.

There are also two computers which you can use to search for medical information on the internet. Library staff will help you to find information and can suggest reliable web sites and other resources for cancer information such as: Where to Start ....Sources of information on...

If you cannot visit us in person, please contact us by phone or email patientlibrary@ottawahospital.on.ca.

Note: You can search our library catalogue from this web site.