HSLANJ had its beginnings as the New Jersey Hospital Library Association (NJHLA). The organizational meeting took place on March 15, 1972. Bylaws were written and adopted.

The first NJHLA Board was:

• Elizabeth McMullen, President
• Jane McCarthy, President-Elect
• Marie Thompson, Secretary
• Calvin Zamarelli, Treasurer
• Sister Paschal, Director
• Bernice Donini, Director
• Victoria Gonzalez, Director

• *Encourage utilization of health information
• *Develop usefulness and efficacy of hospital and nursing school libraries
• *Promote research in information science
• *Provide members with channels of communication
• *Help members in professional development and advancement

1972

• Organization...
• Membership recruitment
• Active participation in Regional Medical Library Program...including National Library of Medicine (NLM) grant applications
• Nursing resources coordination encouraged. Union List for Nursing Resources

• Standards for Hospital Libraries of NJ published
• Survey of Hospital Libraries (1975) preparatory to grant application to NLM for the Association. Resource grant to help Hospital Libraries conform to the new standards.
• Support of association for state interlibrary loan code
• Support for New Jersey State Dept. of Health rate review law.
• Support for concept of photocopying for personal use re the Copyright law.

• Affiliation with the New Jersey Hospital Association
• NJHSLA becomes the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey (HSLANJ)
• Membership expands to recruit other health sciences libraries in addition to hospital libraries.
• Programs at meetings given by library school faculty.

• HSLANJ participates in the Mid-Atlantic Health Congress, as health sciences librarians give professional programs.

• Consumer Education Committee sends List of Medical Books to public libraries
• Interlibrary Loan/Networking Committee established
• Legislative Committee writes to Musto Commission requesting HSLANJ participate in development of new state network
• Finance Committee established
• HRET liaison committee selects titles and donates $1,000 for administrative journals to be made available to HSLANJ members

• Finance Committee established
• Obtained appointment of Liaison from NJ State Library to HSLANJ
• Support for NJ Committee for Better Libraries
• New Health Sciences Network organized
• Bylaws revision. Standing Committees added

• Archives Committee activated
• Long Range Planning Committee established

• Special Interest Group for Nursing
• Nursing Libraries Resources Section

• HSLANJ becomes Allied Member of the New Jersey Hospital Association
• Exhibit of HSLANJ info at New Jersey Library Association Annual Meeting
• Interlibrary Loan Network solidified, AV program developed to explain
• Consortia more involved in HSLANJ elections, structure
• HSLANJ/HRET Survey
• 1st HSLANJ sponsored Medical Library Association CE course

• Continued expansion of Network
• Participation at North Atlantic Hospital Library Association to describe network and to expand it to Basic Health Science Libraries outside New Jersey
• HSLANJ meetings put on cost recovery basis
• Initiated one day Retreat for Board Members
• Special Interest Groups: Online Users

• BHSL (Basic Health Sciences Library) network began with 133 members
• Tax exempt status granted by IRS
• First HSLANJ achievement award given to Jack Conway, librarian at Jersey City Medical Center
• 7.2 MLA CE Contact Hours offered

• HSLANJ members participate in the formation of the six NJ Regional Library Cooperatives
• HSLANJ purchases a computer for committee work
• Member's journal holdings information from UCMP is input into the NJ Union List of Serials for resource sharing purposes
• 15^th Anniversary celebration held at Scanticon in March
• 6.6 MLA CE Contact Hours offered

• New Jersey Medical society asks HSLANJ for input on standards for health sciences libraries to be used in the accreditation process for continuing medical education activities in hospitals
• HSLANJ responded to the NJ State Library Final Report to Develop a Library Automation Blueprint for New Jersey
• 9.6 MLA CE Contact Hours offered

• Survey tool to measure the value of library services developed by Long Range Planning Committee. This tool subsequently included in an MLA DocKit
• NY-NJ MLA Chapter and HSLANJ hold a joint Fall meeting in Princeton. 8 CEUs offered at this meeting
• Free interlibrary loans shared between BHSL members save over $600,000 in ILL charges
• 3 MLA CE Contact Hours offered in addition to those at Fall meeting

• Institutional membership defined and required for participation in the NJHSN, which also allows access to the growing BHSL network
• NJLA/HSLANJ Aids Task Force founded
• Certificates of Recognition given to active members of the association
• 9 MLA CE Contact Hours offered

• 20^th Anniversary Celebration is held in March, HSLANJ past presidents are honored
• White House Conference on Library and Information Services is held in July, HSLANJ members Kathy Moeller, Joan Fierberg, and Michelle Volesko attend
• BHSL members number 320. 226,415 free loans are made, saving $1.8 million.
• 7 MLA CE Contact Hours offered

• HSLANJ purchases laptop computer, membership database is created
• HSLANJ banner purchased
• AIDS Task Force distributes a pamphlet collection on AIDS topics to members and public libraries with funding provided by HSLANJ
• 12.75 MLA CE Contact Hours offered

• Carla Tobias and the newly formed Hospitality Committee produce HSLANJ Membership Manual
• Awards Committee is created. First Health Sciences Librarian and Hospital Administrator awards given
• AIDS Task Force produces pamphlet AIDS Answers, and gives programs in all RLC regions
• 3 NJ Link training sessions sponsored
• HSLANJ archives reorganized
• 9.75 MLA CE Contact Hours offered
• Librarian of the year: Philip Rosenstein (given posthumously)

• HSLANJ develops 5 year strategic plan with the help of a facilitator from the Support Center of New Jersey
• HSLANJ benefits from $53,000 retrospective conversion grant offered by the New Jersey State Library. 27 member libraries take part, and 25,087 records are converted to machine readable format
• 9 MLA CE Contact Hours offered
• Librarian of the year: Michelle Volesko

• Strategic plan is implemented. Committee structure is reorganized, several new permanent committes added
• 475 BHSL members provide 493,218 free loans
• HSLANJ Listserv begins
• 10 MLA CE Contact Hours offered
• Librarian of the year: Patricia Regenberg

• HSLANJ celebrates 25^th anniversary at the Shadowbrook Inn
• Information Technology committee offers QuickDoc meeting
• HSLANJ Web site debuts thanks to Barbara Reich and Kathy Moeller.
• 13.1 MLA CE Contact Hours offered
• Librarian of the year: Mary Scanlon

• Aids Task Force updates poster and AIDS Answers
• HSLANJ gets a toll free number - (888) 4 HSLANJ
• Governor Whitman proclaims March 23rd to March 30th New Jersey Health Sciences Library Week
• HSLANJ distributes full color poster designed by Louise Yorke to all member libraries - Health Science Librarians Put the Pieces Together
• Librarian of the year: Duressa Pujat