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Our Mission:
HSLNKC supports professional medical librarians and healthcare professionals to improve health education and health welfare in the greater metropolitan Kansas City area. Medical librarians provide information to hospitals, universities, corporations, researchers, communities, and anywhere, "Where information touches life!"
HSLNKC is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization that provides and promotes:
- Support of professional education of health sciences librarians and those who work in health sciences libraries
- Support of cooperative networking activities of area library workers and their associates
- Determination of existing informational resources and provision of the means for sharing, strengthening, and utilizing them
- Promotion of the medical librarian profession and the Network
- Development of additional avenues of cooperation
Our mission is advocacy and support for health sciences libraries, and consistent with that please see the notification form designed by the Medical Library Association (MLA) to rapidly collect information on major changes within individual medical libraries in the United States.
Click here to fill out and submit the form if you are aware of any changes within medical libraries.
Our History:
Twenty five institutions signed the charter for the Kansas City Library Network (KCLN), the parent organization of the Health Science Library Network of Kansas City (HSLNKC), on August 13, 1976, and the first annual meeting was held January 28, 1977. HSLNKC was incorporated in the State of Missouri in 1999 with the joining of the Kansas City Library Network (KCLN) institutional network and the "Greater Group," the Health Sciences Library Group of Greater Kansas City (HSLGGKC). In 2008, HSLNKC has twenty-four institutional members and twenty-four individual members who voluntarily lead and support the organization's endeavors. You can read more about our history in Kansas City Library Network, Inc., an article published in February 1987 Show-Me Libraries, co-authored by Ann Marie Corry and D.A. Thomas. Click to get the article.
Join Us! Membership Information:
Membership is open to health sciences librarians, health sciences library workers in the greater Kansas City area, anyone who has an interest in health sciences libraries, and people who work in associated professions. There are three membership categories: Individual, Associate, and Institutional (4 levels).
Meetings:
HSLNKC holds four annual quarterly meetings in January, April, July and October. January is dedicated to the annual awards presentation, and the other meetings are network business with an education program after the meeting. |
