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| BQSIMB: Celebrating 40 years of working together | ||||||||||
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 William Self BQSIMB Past President |
In 1975, a group of forward thinking librarians met and formed an outpost in the early days of hospital library consortia – the Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island Health Sciences Library Group (BQSI). Working together to share resources, further professional knowledge, exchange information and identify common needs, over the years these librarians created a vibrant, growing (with the addition of Manhattan and Bronx librarians) organization that is now celebrating its 40th anniversary. Today, the members of the BQSIMB Health Sciences Librarians work tirelessly together to meet the challenges of a changing world, changing technology, changing workplace, and changing profession. | |||||||||
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From the cutting edge technology of the fax machine to today’s handheld i-devices capable of doing more than our desktops, we have emerged from being keepers of the printed page to the expert guide to pathways of information and where media is the messenger. Without a membership organization of our colleagues and peers, these changes would have presented an almost insurmountable challenge to anyone. Luckily we will have each other to count on for many years to come. As we look to the future– let’s look back to what happened the year BQSIMB was founded:
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