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Dragonfly Fall 2003 -- Volume 34, Number 4

Happy 10^th Birthday, HLIB-NW!

It all started ten years ago, in November 1993, when a regional health sciences library discussion list, HLIB-NW, made its debut with 80 subscribers. The purpose of HLIB-NW remains "to facilitate electronic communications via the Internet among the health sciences library community in the Northwest. It provides a forum for discussing practical, theoretical, and philosophical issues and for exchanging advice, information, ideas, and resources of interest to its intended audience."

HLIB-NW was created and continues to be maintained by Maryanne Blake and Michael Boer of the NN/LM PNR; however, it is not the official voice of the Regional Medical Library (RML). It is an unmoderated discussion list and the topics are those initiated by the subscribers. The subjects of messages include
• publicizing regional meetings, classes, and other educational offerings;
• making announcements of regional interest, such as retirements and job postings;
• sharing information and resources, especially interlibrary loans and giveaway journals and books; and
• asking for and giving advice to colleagues.

Often thanks are posted in response to help asked of colleagues. For instance, "Thank you to all for your help, not just with this request, but with all requests. You are all valuable to the success of our profession!" and "What a great group of colleagues! PAC NW Region rocks!!!!!"

Some interesting factoids about HLIB-NW:

• From 80 charter subscribers, it has grown to 351 subscribers (at last count).
• There are over 8,000 messages in the HLIB-NW archive, which was stated in June 1995.
• This discussion list is the voice of both the Washington Medical Librarians Association (WMLA) and the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association (PNC/MLA).
• There are subscribers from Korea, Japan, Canada and, many areas of the United States, not just the Pacific Northwest.
• HLIB-NW has had several homes. It began life on a NorthWestNet host. In June of 1995 it moved to a Listproc server at the University of Washington where it stayed until June, 2003. HLIB now lives on a Mailman server at the UW.

If you are not on HLIB-NW and would like to join in the discussion go to the HLIB-NW List FAQ <http://nnlm.gov/pnr/hlib-nw.html> for more information, including how to subscribe.

Dragonfly, Fall 2003 -- Volume 34 Issue 4

This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.

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