2. Happy 30th Birthday MAHSLIN Incorporated 1983

3. 1970s 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.

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. A SERLINE-based Union List of Serials for Basic Health Sciences Libraries: A Detailed Protocol BY CHRISTINE L. BELL, Director of Library Services, Newton-Wellesley Hospital Much of the formal cooperation between basic health sciences libraries in Massachusetts was through the state's strong consortia network. To improve and foster this cooperation, the initial MaHSLiN union list had as its foundation the journal holdings of Massachusetts's six established 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Downsizing Library closings Mergers Hiring freezes Medical Library Center of N.Y. enhances ILL by including dates in holding statements MaHSLiN Union List of Serials Terry Simeone Massachusetts Health Sciences Library Network, 1988 Edition 5 536 pages 1988

11. 1990s Mass. Medical Society equipment grant MAHSLIN Hall of Fame introduced MAHSLIN Web Page Hospital mergers

12. 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 RESOURCE SHARING/STATISTICS REPORT FOR 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

13. Grant from Massachusetts Medical Society Will Upgrade Hospital Library Computers Information 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 NEWS volume 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

14. 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

15. Members encouraged to join MaHSLiN-L MaHSLiNs 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

16. Inaugural year of Mahslin Hall of Fame Awards Nancy Frazier Jay Daly Mass. Medical Society Univ Mass Med School ILL Nancy Fazzone 1998

17. 2003 It is with great sadness that we record the 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. Domain ID:D98520719-LROR Domain Name:MAHSLIN.ORG Created On:22-Jul 2003 17:47:25 UTC 2000s

18. 20072011 MAHSLIN Network News Summer 2006Volume 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

19. 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

20. President Anne Fladger presents the Hall of Fame award to Cherie Haitz Margo Coletti presents the award to Sydney Fingold 2003

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Be the Change you Want to See Elaine Alligood, Program Chair Florence Mercer and Liz Fitzpayne are entered into the Hall of Fame 2010

25. First MAHSLIN Action Day! Mark Goldstein Received the Paul Vaiginis Award 2011

26. Tweet! 2012

27. 2013

28. 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

29. 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