HAM-TMC Library

The Library is a member of several consortia with the common goal of cost-effectively developing and sharing their resources.

HARLiC Houston Area Research Library Consortium
If you are a faculty member, graduate student, resident, fellow, or medical student, you qualify for a borrower's card from the Houston Area Research Libraries Consortium (HARLiC). A HARLiC card entitles you to borrow items from Houston Public Library and the libraries of Rice University, Texas Southern University, Texas A & M University, Prairie View A & M University, and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. You may apply for a HARLiC card at the Circulation Desk. If you are not eligible for a HARLiC card you may be able to obtain a TexShare. See TexShare. For more information, inquire at the Circulation Desk 713-799-7147.

SCAMeL South Central Academic Medical Libraries Consortium
The Library is a Participating Institution in the South Central Academic Medical Libraries Consortium. Covering the five-state area of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and New Mexico, SCAMeL is dedicated to resource sharing for the benefit of its fifteen members. Currently, these efforts include cooperative collection development, reciprocal agreements for document delivery and interlibrary loan services, and a common database for locating items in each other’s collections. SCAMeL member libraries also partner with the HAM-TMC Library to serve as Resource Libraries in the South Central Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

THSLC Texas Health Science Libraries Consortium
The HAM-TMC Library serves as the technology hub for the Texas Health Sciences Library Consortium. Comprised of the five principal libraries in the Texas Medical Center and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, THSLC members cooperatively develop their collections and contract collectively for an integrated online catalog system and additional electronic databases. As the manager of the Consortium’s electronic resources, the Library negotiates licensing agreements and provides distributed access to: MEDLINE, CancerLit, Current Contents, the Britannica Online and the shared online catalog.

TexShare TexShare - A Texas Library Resource Sharing Program
Created by the 73rd Texas Legislature, the goal of the TexShare Consortium is to “increase the intellectual productivity of students and faculty by sharing access to vast amounts of information available in the state, but not owned by local libraries.” With 53 public university and health science center members and $1 million in funds trusteed to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the TexShare Consortium has formidable collective buying power and achieves great economies of scale. As an active TexShare member, the HAM-TMC Library can provide its clientele with free access to business and general periodical databases with 750 publications included in a fulltext format. The TexShare Library Card Program is a significant step toward a statewide library card system. For more information, inquire at the Circulation Desk 713.799.7147.

TMC-HIL
Texas Medical Center - Health Information Librarians
The Texas Medical Center - Health Information Librarians (TMC-HIL) is an association of Texas Medical Center Librarians and Information Specialists that work to improve library services in the Medical Center. We meet three times a year in one of the member libraries. Please go to our Newsletter for further information. For a listing of Consortium members please go the listing on the Search the Web pages.

UTSL University of Texas System Libraries
By joining the University of Texas System Libraries Consortium, the HAM-TMC Library is part of a 19-member digital library initiative that contracts system-wide for electronic resources. Access to the CINAHL (Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health) and PsycLit (Psychological Abstracts) databases is provided through the Consortium. The Consortium also spearheads the development of digitized collections of documents, manuscripts, photographs, and audio and video recordings that highlight the uniqueness of Texas. The first of these is the Border Cultures Collection Project, chronicling the rich and diverse culture that has developed over the years along the Texasmexico border.



Consortia Memberships