| 1754 | The Redwood Library, founded by Abraham Redwood has a collection of medical books which "...were amply sufficient to give the medical student competent information of all that was then known in the English language on Anatomy, Surgery, Chemistry, Botany..." |
| 1811 | Establishment of Brown University Medical School (1811-1927) and of the Brown University Medical Association. The Association was for the benefit of professors, students and other physicians. The Association conducted a library and at its initial meeting on November 9, 1811, authorized the purchase of books. This library was maintained until March 28, 1825 when the Association ceased to exist. |
| 1812 | Establishment of the Rhode Island Medical Society. |
| 1823 | From the circular Medical Lectures in Brown University, "A Medical Library is attached to the school to which the students will allow access." |
| 1824 | Dr. Caleb Fiske donated 72 volumes of valuable books to the Rhode Island Medical Society, accompanied by a letter: "Gentlemen, believing it to be an object of considerable interest to establish a medical library for the use of the Society, and as no successful effort hath hitherto been made to effect so desirable a purpose..." His gift received few additions and the collection was not updated. |
| 1824 | The Library of Brown University has received "from two young gentlemen alumni, a respectable donation of French books which are valuable works on Natural History, on Anatomy and Surgery." |
| 1847 | Establishment of Butler Hospital, which develops a medical and psychiatric library. |
| 1848 | Providence Medical Association starts subscriptions to various journals. |
| 1862 | War Department General Hospital in Portsmouth Grove has a library. Also known as Lovell General Hospital. |
| 1868 | The opening of Rhode Island Hospital. Space was provided for a library which includes collections donated by: Dr. Ezekiel Fowler from Woonsocket (400 volumes), Dr. J. Davis Jones, and Dr. Usher Parson. Dr. William P. Bullock is the first librarian. |
| 1868 | Rhode Island Medical Society presented all books, journals, instruments, and apparatus to Rhode Island Hospital, provided the members of the Society shall be permitted to have free use of them when desired, subject to the rules of the hospital. |
| 1874 | Rhode Island Hospital Librarian Dr. Charles L. Leonard reports library has 2,000 volumes. |
| 1880 | Dr. George Dallas Hersey, is appointed Librarian of the Rhode Island Medical Society (RIMS) and asks Rhode Island Hospital to return all the journals the Society gave them in 1868. The collection is moved to the Franklin Society rooms on North Main Street in Providence. |
| 1884 | Providence Lying-Inn Hospital opens. |
| 1900 | Books and journals of the Rhode Island Medical Society (RIMS) were moved to Providence Public Library (PPL), because the Franklin Society had no space. But after a few years, PPL notified RIMS that since the collection has grown to such proportions, PPL no longer had space. |
| 1901-1902 | Dr. Hersey (RIMS) is the Treasurer of the Medical Library Association. |
| 1912 | Opening of the Rhode Island Medical Society Library building. The collection is moved out of the PPL into the new building. Miss Grace E. Dickerman came to RIMS from PPL. The library is open to everyone in RI for study and reference use. |
| 1927 | The James Henry Davenport Collection -- books by and about doctors is given to the Rhode Island Medical Societ. |
| 1930 | Helen Moffitt DeJong begins work at RIMS (until 1975). |
| 1951 | 25 health sciences librarians, who saw the advantages that could come from increased cooperation between them, began meeting for a social hour. |
| 1953 | The establishment of the Association of Rhode Island Health Sciences Libraries (ARIHSL). The group started working together on mutual problems and produced the first edition of the Union List of Medical Journals (May 27, 1953). |
| 1957 | Anne Maxvillee was on an organizing committee for the New England Regional Group. |
| 1958-1959 | Anne Maxville, Rhode Island Medical Society, is chair of the New England Regional Group. |
| 1962-1963 | Doris Johnson, Rhode Island Hospital, was chair of the New England Regional Group. |
| 1968 | The Rhode Island Medical Society received the collection of old medical books that belonged to Dr. Madelaine Ray Brown (1898-1968). Born in Providence, she received MA from Brown University, MD from Johns Hopkins (1927), speciality was neurology. She was the first woman house officer at Boston City Hospital. |
| 1971-1972 | Josephine Carson, Brown University, was chair of the New England Regional Groups of MLA. |
| 1974 | Set up of the Medline Service Center, Sciences Library, Brown University. Requests for a search could be made through a medical librarian, or directly to Mrs. Carson, the |
| Biomedical Librarian in the Sciences Library. The cost per search was $10.00 | |
| 1975 | ARIHSL adopted its name Association of Rhode Island Health Sciences Librarians and its first slate of officers were elected. |
| 1976 | Brown University re-opens its medical school -- Program in Liberal Medical Education. Library began to acquire medical books and journals. |
| 1979-1980 | Ann Knight Randall, Brown University, is chair of the North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries. |
| 1980 | Cooperative Interlibrary Loan plan with the Maine Health Sciences Libraries (HSLIC). 3 copies of their union list are deposited in RI at: University of Rhode Island, Roger Williams College, and RIMS. Librarians in Rhode Island can call one of these libraries to check on availability of titles. |
| 1980 | October 22-25 -- NAHSL held in Rhode Island |
| 1980-1981 | Patricia Thibodeau is President of ARIHSL |
| 1981 | Began awarding an ARIHSL scrimshaw pin to members who are retiring. First was to Mary Murray. |
| 1981 | In Health Sci/RI list who has what union lists and members can call to ask for holding information. |
| 1981 | Jo-Anne Aspri began working at Kent as work-study student. |
| 1981 | New England Regional Medical Library Services (NERMS) conducted a regional ILL cost study |
| 1981 | ARIHSL Serials Committee is set up. |
| 1981-1982 | Deidre Donahue is President of ARISHSL |
| 1982 | RIMS changed its ILL policy -- telephone requests will no longer be accepted. ARIHSL members would have to pay for ILL requests from RIMS collection. In 1979/80, RIMS accounted for 11% of ILL requests in the state. |
| Newsletters had information about activities in RILA, and in the New England Regional Council on Library Resources for Nursing. | |
| Membership consists of 57 members (4 retired) | |
| The Association dealt with introducing legislation on use of Community Access Cable Television (HR 82-7847) | |
| Members were involved in the Hospital Library Section of NELA. | |
| Legislative network (by phone) established to allow fast communication among ARIHSL members | |
| ARIHSL accepted an offer from NERMLS to update ARIHSL Union List in NLM-compatable machine -- readable form (SERLINE) by a computer firm. Set-up the ARIHSL Union List Committee: Roseanne Gamache, Frank Kellerman, Chris LaFauci, Peg Lambeth, Hadassah Stein, and Ruth Szabo | |
| ILL Committee's "Proposed Guidelines for ILL of materials in the ARIHSL Union List" were accepted | |
| At an ARIHSL meeting a talk was given explaining reasons for proposed affiliation between WIH and RIH. | |
| Department of State Library Services begins serving as central address for receipt of ARIHSL mail. | |
| New York Academy of Medicine selected as Regional Library for Northeast region. | |
| ARIHSL's On-Line User Group holds first meeting. | |
| 1982-1983 | Christine LaFauci is ARIHSL President |
| 1983 | University of Connecticut Health Center Library becomes the Resource Library for RI/CONN sub-region of Region I. |
| Bradley Hospital's Levy Library and East Providence Public Library team up to provide information about child behavior, development problems, and social work. | |
| Approved expenditure of $400 to re-formate ARIHSL Union List tape to make it compatible with that of NLM. Motion was tabled to January 1984 meeting. | |
| Began discussing visibility of institutional membership fee. | |
| Most newsletters had information on serial holdings changes and union lists | |
| 1983-1984 | Wendell Pols was ARIHSL President |
| 1984 | "Medical Information for the Layperson" -- ARIHSL members presented a program at INFOEX -- a conference sponsored by Department of State Library Services for reference libraries from public libraries |
| Mr. Joszef Szabo updated the logo, and he was named an honorary member for his generous contribution to the organization. | |
| 44 copies of the union lists were sold to members of ARIHSL and 9 to non members. | |
| 1984 | Christine A. Chapman, Health Sciences Information, waswas chair of the North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries. |
| 1984-1985 | Lynn Lloyd is ARIHSL President |
| 1985 | Erika Schmidt receives scrimshaw necklace and a book on gardening upon retiring after 23 years of services at Butler Hospital's Isaac Ray Medical Library. |
| 1985 | No librarians from RIH involved in ARIHSL. Annual dues in 1988 were $10.00. Union List -- 12th edition 1988 for $20.00 |
| 1985 | Brown Participated in initial test phase for Docline. |
| Major issues: - Early 1980's hospitals receiving Medicare will not have to have a medical library - 1985 UCMP to take place of SER hold microfiche last -- many objected to this, as would cost them $250 a year. - NLM is concerned about serving the 10 underserved health professionals - May 15, 1985 revised By-Laws approved |
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| Sometimes meet at lunch time | |
| 1985 | Most all ARIHSL Libraries submitted their holdings to UCMP. |
| 1985 | The position of Medical Library Coordinator is established at Brown University. |
| 1985-1986 | Janet Crager is ARIHSL President |
| Average salary for hospital librarian is $26,760. | |
| 1986 | Low attendance at meetings, decide to try 5 meetings a year, instead of 8. One lunch, one 3:30, 3 evening meetings (dinner, business meeting, speaker/or educational program) |
| 1986 | Raynna B. Genetti become first Medical Library Coordinator, Brown University. |
| 1986 | Ruth Szabo retires from St. Joseph Hospital. |
| 1986 | Rhode Island Medical Society Library comes to Brown University. |
| 1986-1987 | Grace Varghese is President |
| 1987 | Library Committee of RIMS meets to discuss the future of the RIMS Library, as usage is down, and the last 4 librarians stayed only for short tenure. |
| An RIMSL/ARIHSL Liaison Committee was set up, mainly to insure that the collection remains in RI. | |
| 1987 | From the minutes: "Docline wants to evaluate responses on usage. Eventually they would like to rid of the coupon system and have NLM keep track of the expenditures." |
| 1987 | RIMS collection will be given to Brown University, with free access to RIMS members. State journal collection will be available to ARIHSL at no charge for ILL's, for at least 3 years. [Brown continues to provide at no charge 6/18/2003] |
| 1988 | ARIHSL has table at RILA Annual Conference to sell copies of Union List for $10.00. It was good publicity for ARIHSL -- but didn't sell any Union Lists. |
| ARIHSL joins BHSL as a consortium. | |
| Jo-Anne Aspri is special libraries representive to ILL RHILINET Committee. | |
| 1988 | ARIHSL members participate in the Rhode Island Library Study under sponsorship of RILA and DSLS -- to evaluate library network programs and services. |
| 1987 | Looking into having a Marcive monograph holdings list (Jo- Anne Aspri and Linda Walton). Nine libraries were interested. |
| 1988-1989 | Linda Walton is President |
| 1988 | Carolyn Waller Bradley retires from Bradley Hospital |
| 1989 | ARIHSL develops the Interlibrary Loan Code and Interlibrary Loan Guidelines, committee chaired by Jo-Anne Aspri. It was accepted at July 20, 1988 meeting. |
| ARIHSL Newsletter no longer publishes journal holdings updates -- all updated should be through UCMP. | |
| Set up a Membership Committee -- to keep list of current members updated, collect dues. | |
| Linda Walton is special libraries representative to RI Library Study Implementation Committee. First time an ARIHSL member is on a state advisory committee for libraries. | |
| 1989 | ARIHSL celebrates its 35th anniversary with special cake and candles at November 30th meeting with new ARIHSL banner. |
| 1988-1989 | Tosca Carpenter is President |
| Average salary for hospital librarian in MA and RI is $31,574. | |
| 1990 | Because of Docline -- not necessary to update Union List every year. Decide to publish the ARIHSL Union List every other year, beginning in August 1989. |
| 1990 | Mary Zammarelli is a member of the RHILINET ILL Taskforce. |
| 1991 | 12 hospital libraries join the RHILINET Interlibrary Loan System. |
| The ARIHSL Monograph Union List on microfiche was distributed. 8 libraries participated and 5,000 unique title are listed. | |
| 1989-1990 | Raynna Bowlby, Brown University, was chair of the North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries. NAHSL conference was held in Providence. |
| 1989-1990 | Jo-Anne Aspri is ARIHSL President |
| 1990 | NAHSL is held in RI at the Omni-Biltmore, Providence, Chair is Raynna Bowlby |
| There are 45 members in ARIHSL, including 9 retired members. | |
| Tosca Carpenter compiled the ARIHSL Policy and Procedure Manual. | |
| Re-creation of the New England Region as part of the Medical Library Network, to become effective as of May 1991. | |
| 13th edition of ARIHSL Union List is published. | |
| Dr. Lindberg's letter to hospital administrators about Grateful Med. Jo-Anne Aspri sent letter as ARIHSL President to Dr. Lindberg. | |
| Committee created to consider creating institutional membership in ARIHSL. | |
| 1990-1991 | Mary Zammarelli as President |
| 1991 | Discussion about drop of attendance at ARIHSL meetings, at January 16th meeting. It was decided not to have noon time meetings, but either morning or evening meetings. Earlier announcement of up-coming meetngs. |
| University of Connecticut wins the RML contract for Region 8. | |
| ARIHSL members present a review of medical resources for public librarians at RILA conference, June 7. | |
| A motion was approved that $200.00 be given to any of the following members: President, President-Elect, Past President, or member of Executive Board to attend MLA conference. | |
| 1991-1992 | Barbara Davis is President |
| 1990 | Brown becomes a Resource Library for RI within the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. |
| Members work on submitting a Technology Update Grant from NLM. Principal Investigator -- Barbara Davis but was tabled because of changes at NLM. | |
| Work begins on ARIHSL's 14th edition of the Union List. | |
| ARIHSL is represented on the Regional Advisory Committee by Mary Ann Slocomb. | |
| Quahog -- Compact disc of monographs holdings of RI public libraries and 10 hospital libraries is provided. | |
| 1992-1993 | Ruthann Gildea is President |
| 1991 | Grant proposal open to all ARIHSL members for funding for equipment and software, was submitted to Champlin Foundation on September 1993. Proposal rejected. |
| Approved new membership category -- Institutional Membership, and with this change the new name for ARIHSL is Association of Rhode Island Health Sciences Libraries. By-Laws were changed to reflect this. | |
| ARIHSL changed name to Association of RI Health Sciences Libraries to high light the investment of resource on part of the institutions and benefits that occur to them through work of ARIHSL. | |
| ARIHSL libraries join LORI -- Library of Rhode Island | |
| 15th Edition of the ARIHSL Union List was published. Price $30.00 members, $40.00 non-members. It costs $1,700 to produce. Decided to update "yellow pages" from union List every year and to include internet address and fax numbers. | |
| Ann LeClair, one of the founding members of ARIHSL passed away on September 6. | |
| ARIHSL celebrated its 40th Anniversary on October 27 at the Brown Faculty Club. Event was sponsored by Ebsco. | |
| 1993-1993 | Sylvia Hampton is President 1994 |
| 1992 | ARIHSL members participate in satellite broadcast of Medlars Update at VA Hospital and Newport Hospital. |
| Members voted to continue ARIHSL membership in the Rhode Island Coalition of Library Advocates. | |
| Journal Club was organized for interested members. | |
| Membership fees are: 20 Individual members - $10.00 16 Institutional members - $20.00 |
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| ARIHSL sponsored a poster session at NAHSL '94, instead of presenting state reports. | |
| 1994 | Helen DeJong, 83, one of the founding members of ARIHSL passed away on March 31, 1994. |
| ARIHSL members attend workshops about access to OCLC. | |
| 1994-1995 | Irene Lathrop is President |
| 1995 | NAHSL in RI at Westin Hotel, Providence, Co-chairs Tovah Reis and Ruthann Gildea |
| 1996 | Jo-Anne Aspri Kent receives the NAHSL Achievement Award. |
| ARIHSL develops its web site, which was hosted on the Brown University server. Its debut was May 15, 1996, Janet Crager was the first webmaster. | |
| ARIHSL has 31 members, and 10 retired members for a total of 41 members. | |
| Talks began with CRIARL about merging the ARIHSL Union List of Medical Peridicals with the CRIARL Union List. | |
| 1997-1998 | Janice Schuster is President |
| 1997 | The June 4 meeting was to brainstorm ideas and solutions about the future of ARIHSL as it is entering the next year without an incoming president. Sylvia Hampton, Past President volunteered to serve as President for the coming year. It was decided to have only four meetings, create a listserv, use e-mail for reports and announcements, and that ARIHSL will maintain its district organizational status for the coming year. |
| 1998 | Membership: Individual -- 10 Institutional -- 14 |
| 2000-2001 | Jo-Anne Aspri, Kent Hospital, was NAHSL conference chair. Conference was held in Newport. |
| 2001 | Tovah Reis, Brown University, received NAHSL Achievement Award |
| 2001-2002 | MaryAnn Slocomb, UMASS ( ) RIH was chair of NAHSL |