The Hospital Library Services Program (HLSP) was established in legislation in 1984 to improve the resources and services and of the medical and health sciences libraries in the region and to encourage the sharing of these resources.

The program provides consulting and support services to twenty participating hospital libraries. Eligibility for participation in the Hospital Library Services Program is limited to libraries in not-for-profit hospitals.

The following services are provided to HLSP participants:

• Consulting services of the Special Projects Coordinator.
• Interlibrary loan among participating hospitals and other members of LILRC, and free cooperative interlibrary loans through participation in local networks.
• Participation in LILRC's regional union list of serials.
• Subsidized OCLC catalog services for new acquisitions.
• Continuing education workshops for health sciences librarians.
• Facilitated access for hospital libraries to Internet resources.
• Subsidized fixed-fee low-cost database searching.
• Subsidized gift and exchange services to facilitate sharing duplicate and discarded materials.
• Hospital library evaluations based upon state guidelines and regional comparisons.
• Publication of LILRC HealthLine newsletter.
• Participation in other LILRC programs, including: Research Loan Program, group purchases of database services, continuing education workshops, participation in OCLC GAC.

Resource Libraries Willing To Serve DOCLINE libraries
All Resource Libraries serve DOCLINE libraries from any region. They are allowed to charge NLM's maximum, which is $11.00 (as of October 2001).

List of Middle Atlantic Region Document Delivery Providers