Libraries have traditionally been safeguarded the fulfillment of goals of continuing education in their respective fields. It is felt to accord enhanced priority to the health science librarians while the continuing education experts enhance their knowledge of the learning process and the various elements that make the scope of the continuing education effective. Really, the role of health sciences libraries is enormous particularly in the sphere of the lifelong learning and Continuing Education. The concept of Continuing Education has been conveniently been divided by Gruppen as formal CE that concentrates on conventional programs concerning specific topics and aimed at particular audiences; and the informal CE that emphasizes on the learning that involves the anxiety of practitioners anxious of resolving the problems in their routine practice. (Messerle, 1990).

             The role of health science libraries has been realized to be significant in both the categories of continuing education and alternatives are available for enhanced qualitative and quantitative involvement in both. The libraries have seen to be supporting the Continuing education in four demarcated spheres categorized as resources support, content support, educational support and information management based support. The role of libraries enhancing support of lifelong learning in such fields has been significantly realized. The resource support by the libraries in respect of formal Continuing Education also involves provision of video players, slide projectors and computer projection panel to assist the process of a lecture. As a parallel support service the libraries in hospitals and academic institutions identify courses, workshops, or audiovisual programs to cater to the needs of the practitioners using specialty journals, synopses of CE offerings, and locally generated reference tools. .

             In the field of content support the physicians rely on the libraries for provision of knowledge and guidance on specific problems at the time he is diagnosing a patient.