Membership
Membership brochure (updated 2/26/2020)
Eligibility
Any individual who works in a health science library or is interested in the field is welcome to join. Institutions desiring membership must meet criteria relating to collection breadth and depth, interlibrary loan cooperation and group participation. For both individuals and institutions there are established levels of membership, depending upon qualifications. The membership year is by the calendar year (January-December).
Benefits
- Professional development and continuing education opportunities
- Professional interaction and personal contact with other health science librarians in the area
- Opportunities to visit other libraries and to become familiar with their collections.
- Promotion of inter-library cooperation in programs, services and resources, including free interlibrary loan among full institutional members.
- Forum for communication with regional and national health library organizations such as the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM).
Levels of Membership
HealthLINE currently has three membership categories for individuals:
Full membership
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Associate membership
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Student membership
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HealthLINE also offers institutional membership opportunities, and more information is available on the Institutional Membership page. Institutions do not pay dues; however, the official Institutional Member Representative may join as an individual member.
Disclaimer
Attendance at HealthLINE programs or events constitutes consent to be photographed for use in print and/or electronic publicity for HealthLINE and photograph storage in the HealthLINE archives.If your photograph appears on a HealthLINE media resource (i.e, website, blog, Facebook, print) and you wish for it to be removed, please send an email to dfwhealthline@gmail.com.