{"id":69674,"date":"2004-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-library-celebrates-20-years-of-helin-consortium\/"},"modified":"2004-01-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-28T00:00:00","slug":"uri-library-celebrates-20-years-of-helin-consortium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/01\/uri-library-celebrates-20-years-of-helin-consortium\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Library celebrates 20 years of HELIN Consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tMedia Contact: Jan Wenzel, 874-2116<\/p>\n


\nStatewide borrowing privileges expand available information <\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — January 28, 2004 — When 溏心vlog免费B站 student Heather Stapleton needed a book her management professor recommended, she simply turned on her computer and searched HELIN, a vast computerized catalog of 10 academic libraries throughout Rhode Island. Within seconds, she discovered that the Community College of Rhode Island had a copy and she placed her order. A couple of days later, the book arrived. <\/p>\n


\nStapleton is one of more than 70,000 students, faculty, and staff members who have access to 4.7 million items–books, periodicals, electronic resources, videos and audio materials that can be borrowed through online requests thanks to HELIN, shorthand for Higher Education Library Information Network.

\nThe HELIN Consortium was formed in 1984, when the libraries of the three state institutions of higher education \u2013溏心vlog免费B站, Rhode Island College, and the Community College of Rhode Island– agreed to share an automated circulation system. In time, the system was replaced by a multi-functional automated library system purchased from Innovative Interfaces, Inc. <\/p>\n


\nIn addition to 溏心vlog免费B站, RIC, and CCRI, the consortium now includes the academic libraries of Brown University, Bryant College, the Dominion House of Studies in Washington, D.C., Providence College, Roger Williams University, Salve Regina University and Johnson & Wales University, which has campuses in Virginia, Colorado, South Carolina, and Florida.<\/p>\n


\n“This was an initiative of the libraries themselves, without outside funding,” said Paul Gandel, vice provost for information and dean of libraries at the 溏心vlog免费B站. “It\u2019s an important national model of cooperation, particularly when there are limited resources. Publics and privates in Rhode Island banded together to accomplish together what none could have done alone. The HELIN Consortium is cost efficient and effective at the same time.”<\/p>\n


\n\tHELIN\u2019s reach expanded last year with the inclusion of 13 health science libraries (Butler Hospital, Eleanor Slater Hospital, Kent Hospital, Landmark Medical Center, Miriam Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital, Women & Infants Hospital, Newport Hospital, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, South County Hospital, the Naval Ambulatory Health Center, the state\u2019s Department of Health, Roger Williams Medical Center, St. Joseph Health Services, and the VA Medical Center). The libraries will be added to the HELIN system and operational this fall, according to Robert Aspri, executive director of the consortium. Although the libraries don\u2019t contain a large collection, their medical texts are the most current.<\/p>\n


\n\t“Each consortium member possesses strengths that helps the collective,” says Aspri. “For instance, philosophy students benefit from Providence College\u2019s vast collection of philosophy and religion, education students benefit from Rhode Island College\u2019s information on specific curriculums, community planning students from Roger Williams University\u2019s architecture school, etc.”<\/p>\n


\n\tThe HELIN system is located at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston Campus. The consortium shares its technical expertise and costs associated with maintaining it. <\/p>\n


\nHELIN members are discussing possible expansion and other types of services. “We\u2019re looking at other libraries as well as other type of data such as digital archives that could be added,” Aspri noted.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Media Contact: Jan Wenzel, 874-2116 Statewide borrowing privileges expand available information KINGSTON, R.I. — January 28, 2004 — When 溏心vlog免费B站 student Heather Stapleton needed a book her management professor recommended, she simply turned on her computer and searched HELIN, a vast computerized catalog of 10 academic libraries throughout Rhode Island. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}