Happy 30th BirthdayMAHSLIN

Incorporated 1983

1970’s

November 1, 1977

Pinky Howard & Suzanne Noyes of the Brockton VA invite former members of the Mass. Hospital Library Group to meet and discuss forming a new organization.

88 librarians respond, 40 join the organization.

Bylaws are developed, officially naming the organization the Health Sciences Librarians of Massachusetts.

Pres Johanna Alexander

VP Marge Sullivan

Sec Sarah Person

Treas Nancy Duggan

MRI is invented

Roslyn Yalow receives the Nobel

Presidency is a two year term, and a five year commitment to the board

1977

1980s

• Funding for Union List of Serials• Membership drive • Further efforts to develop hospital

library standards• Pros & Cons of incorporating• Massachusetts Health Sciences

Library Network becomes the official name

Automating the library in the 1980s was certainly a process.  Florence was the proud recipient of the hospital’s first computer and had to attend a full week-long training class at Dartmouth College to learn how to use MEDLINE. 

1980s

A SERLINE-based Union List of Serials for Basic Health Sciences Libraries: A Detailed ProtocolBY CHRISTINE L. BELL, Director of Library Services, Newton-Wellesley Hospital

Much of the formal cooperation between basichealth sciences libraries in Massachusetts wasthrough the state's strong consortia network. Toimprove and foster this cooperation, the initialMaHSLiN union list had as its foundation thejournal holdings of Massachusetts's sixestablished health-related consortia.

Kudos to Chris Bell! ULS is a bestseller!

160 copies sold in first year, and the MaHSLiN treasury is finally flush

1982

Membership expands to 122 libraries, of which 47% are hospitals

The spring issue of MaHSLiN Network News asks “Are we losing ground?” citing revisions by HCFA no longer mandating hospital libraries

Annual meeting

focused on the RML reconfiguration, with a program featuring the staff of the N.Y. Academy of Medicine

Incorporation papers filed May 15, 1983

1983

Annual meeting held jointly with the Mass. Medical Society in Hyannis with a record number of attendees

(315)

Before DOCLINE there is MEDLINK, Mass. Medical Information Link, email based ILL

NLM reports 623 MEDLARS Centers, and plans are underway for a

“train the trainers” program

Third edition of ULS, with funding from MMS

1984

Downsizing

Library closings

Mergers

Hiring freezes

Medical Library Center of N.Y. enhances ILL by including dates in holding statements

MaHSLiN Union List of SerialsTerry SimeoneMassachusetts Health Sciences Library Network, 1988Edition 5536 pages

1988

1990’s

Mass. Medical Society equipment grant

MAHSLIN Hall of Fame introduced

MAHSLIN Web Page

Hospital mergers

Something from the latest romance novel to hit the bookstores? How about the 1999 annual meeting held at the Sheraton Lexington Inn this past April! This year's conference committee, ably chaired by Anita Loscalzo, Vice-President/President-Elect, planned for just about every contingency and thought of almost every detail, except the power outage that

occurred at 3:30am the morning of the meeting.

MAHSLIN RESOURCESHARING/STATISTICS REPORTFOR 1999 INTERLIBRARY LOANS

 MAHSLIN consortia members borrowed 37,165 articles in 1999 and lent 29,890.Of the items borrowed, there was a 12% increase in electronically filled requests; of those lent, there was a 15% increase in electronically filled loans.

Barbara Pastan, Chair, Resource Sharing

MAHSLIN NETWORK NEWS

volume 16, number 3, July 1996

A Quarterly Publication of the Massachusetts Health Sciences Library Network

*******************************************************NEW EDITION OF MAHSLIN UNION LIST AVAILABLE

The 1996 edition of the MAHSLIN Union List of Serials is now available for purchase. The price for MAHSLIN members is $20 for the first copy, $40 for each additional copy. Non-members' price is $40 per copy.

MaHSLiN

1990s

Grant from Massachusetts Medical Society Will Upgrade Hospital Library ComputersInformation Today; Mar1992, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p14

A grant of $50,000 from MMS will be distributed among twelve hospital medical libraries. MMS awarded the grant check to MaHSLiN which is administering to provide computer workstations for physician use and training, and upgrade existing equipment, and purchase software such as BRS Colleague and Grateful Med.

Every December the Mahslin Executive Board meets with consortia chairs and resource library directors for an opportunity to share information and exchange ideas. Thus, Board members get a better idea of what's going on "out there" and invited guests have a chance to gather information about what's going on in Mahslin that they can, in turn, pass along to their colleagues. This year the meeting was held on December 16, 1999 immediately following the regular Board meeting.

MAHSLIN NETWORK NEWSvolume 16, number 2, April 1996

A small group of MAHSLIN members is now at work on a Home Page for MAHSLIN in a format that will mirror Web pages of other, similar organizations. The Executive Board of MAHSLIN has approved that the initial contents of the Home Page will include a description of MAHSLIN, its mission statement, a list of Executive Board Members and Committee Chairs with their e-mail addresses, membership, annual meeting, continuing education, and Union List purchase information.

1998

Hall of

Fame

1990s

MMS awards $50,000 for first year to foster computer literacy and information literacy among physicians

Lynne Silvers with Robin Rand

Grateful Med outreach project

Regional Medical Library contract awarded to Univ. CT. Health Center

1991

Members encouraged to join MaHSLiN-L

MaHSLiN’s first homepage features the Network News

MAHSLIN NETWORK NEWS

volume 16, number 3, July 1996

A Quarterly Publication of the Massachusetts Health Sciences Library Network

*******************************************************NEW EDITION OF MAHSLIN UNION LIST AVAILABLE

The 1996 edition of the MAHSLIN Union List of Serials is now available for purchase. The price for MAHSLIN members is $20 for the first copy, $40 for each additional copy. Non-members' price is $40 per copy.

“Evaluating New Electronic Technologies for Patient & Consumer Health Education in the Continuum of Care”

Annual Meeting, Auburn, MA

1996

Inaugural year of Mahslin Hall of Fame Awards

Nancy

Frazier

Jay Daly

Mass. Medical Society

Univ Mass Med School ILL

Nancy Fazzone

1998

2003

It is with great sadness that we recordthe passing of one of the founders of MAHSLIN, Paul Vaiginas, in January of this year. Paul started his medical library career at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in 1970, moving on to the Deaconess Hospital in 1978. When Deaconess Hospital merged with Beth Israel in 1996, Paul helped to ease the consolidation of the two libraries and their perspective staffs with great humor and humanity. He retired from the BI Deaconess Medical Center in 2003.

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2000s

2007 2011

MAHSLIN Network NewsSummer 2006—Volume 26, Number 3

Resource Sharing among MAHSLIN members now means more than just borrowing and lending ILL articles. After many years of “talking about it,” 23 of our members joined together for a group purchase of STAT!Ref titles.

Submitted by Jeanie Vander Pyl

2010

2000s

Annual meeting held at Tower Hill Botanic Gardens

One of the featured speakers was Cara (Helfner) Marcus, “Got Data? Finding sources for Mass. Health Statistics

2000

President Anne Fladger presents the Hall of Fame award to Cherie Haitz

Margo Coletti presents the award to Sydney Fingold

2003

The education committee (Alison Clapp & Nathan Norris) organized 6 programs, from webinars to MLA satellite conferences!

Annual meeting “Time is Now” returns to the Mass. Medical Society

2005

First Paul Vaiginnis Professional Award presented to Alison Clapp and Nathan Norris for their outstanding leadership in providing continuing education opportunities to our membership

Paul pictured with Anita Loscalzo

Nathan Norris leads the effort for a re-design of the MAHSLIN logo

2007

Jay Daly

Technology Grant

“The MAHSLIN Board is like Hotel California –

you can check out, but you can never leave.”

This fund was established to honor the memory of Jay Daly and to continue his vision

2010

Be the Change you Want to See

Elaine Alligood,

Program Chair

Florence Mercer and Liz Fitzpayne are entered into the Hall of Fame

2010

First MAHSLIN Action Day!

Mark Goldstein

Received the

Paul Vaiginis

Award

2011

Tweet!

2012

2013

102 hours in pursuit of Marathon suspects

Boston Globe

For five indelible days, the unthinkable became routine in Boston. And no one felt that more than the agents mounting the largest manhunt in regional history.

2013

An Appreciation of our Members

• In preparing this brief history, it became apparent that many of the people who were active in the early days of the organization continued to contribute their time and talents for many years. While not at all an inclusive list, some of the notables are Alison Clapp, Chris Bell, Florence Mercer, Anita Loscalzo, Sydney Fingold, Jay Daly, Denise Corless, Debbie Almquist, Teri Niland, Jeannie vander Pyl, Gale Cogan, Cara Marcus, Elaine Alligood, Margo Coletti, and the list goes on. And in the last decade, new leaders have stepped up – Brandy King, Sally Gore, Nathan Norris, Jane Ichord, Dan McCloskey, and so many others who will define the direction of knowledge management in years to come – Melinda Marchand, MAHSLIN Archives Chair