Hellenic Academic Libraries Link

The Hellenic Academic Libraries link operates as a Consortium and comprises all Greek Higher Education Institutes, the Academy of Athens, the Library of the Hellenic Parliament and the National Library of Greece. Since 1999 the Research Institutes of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology and a number of other organizations, such as the public Universities of Cyprus,  the Pedagogical Institute of Greece, the Institute of Computer Technology and the National Agricultural Research Foundation (NAGREF), were added to the consortium.

The Purposes of the HEAL-Link are:

• The creation and operation of a Union Catalogue of Hellenic Academic Libraries.
• The use of the records of the Union Catalogue from every member of the Link.
• The development and establishment of standards in library operations.
• The continuous training of staff of the member-libraries.
• The common subscription to electronic resources and information services , as well as licences for remote access to electronic resources and information services, including electronic scientific journals.
• The cooperation, through an established common policy, in journals' subscriptions (both in print and eletronic) among the members, in order to achieve a more rational development of journals' collections, to save resources and to have access to a larger number of resources for the coverage of educational and research needs of the users of the member libraries.
• The cooperation in the availability of the material of every participating library through interlibrary loan and other methods and practices which assure this availability.
• The cooperation whith relevant organizations both domestic and foreign for the assurance of the participation of HEAL Link in international developments concerning library cooperations and management of copyright.
• The undertaking of every initiative which promotes and develops the Hellenic Academic Libraries through common activities and initiatives.

The HEAL-Llink is already a member of the International Coalition of Libraries Consortia.