The Medical Library Association (MLA) has awarded grants sponsored by EBSCO to four librarians to assist with travel and conference-related expenses to attend the MLA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, May 13-18, 2011. The four $1,000 awards are presented annually to librarians who are early in their careers and currently employed in a health sciences library.
This year's grant recipients are: Trish Chatterley, public services librarian and liaison librarian to the faculty of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, University of Alberta-Edmonton, Canada; Anna Katherine Crawford, information services librarian, West Virginia University, Morgantown; Lara Handler, school of medicine librarian, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill; and Ryan Rafferty, assistant health sciences librarian, University of Illinois-Chicago, Urbana, Ill.
The MLA annual meeting provides an opportunity for health sciences librarians to present and discuss papers, posters, applied research and important issues related to health sciences information management. The grant recipients will be recognised at the Awards Ceremony and Luncheon during the conference on May 16, 2011. They will join more than 2,000 fellow health information professionals at this year's meeting.
To be considered for the award, applicants must be currently employed in a health sciences library and have two to five years experience. Each candidate must complete an application form and write a short essay answering the question: 'What do you expect to gain professionally and/or personally by attending the MLA annual meeting?' Applicants are judged by a jury comprising five members of MLA, appointed by the President of MLA.
The deadline for grant applications for the 2012 MLA conference is Dec. 1, 2011.
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