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Awards

MLA Awards
The Best of 2002

Each year, MLA gives a variety of awards, grants, and scholarships to individuals in recognition and support of the valuable contributions they have made to the health sciences librarianship profession. From research and instruction to outstanding service and leadership, MLA's professional recognition program supports and encourages the best and brightest in the field. Congratulations to the winners and nominees!

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Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship

Margaret Bandy, AHIP, Medical Library, Exempla St. Joseph Hospital, Denver, CO

Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year

Judith F. Burnham, AHIP, Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama-Mobile

Janet Doe Lectureship for 2003

Frieda O. Weise, Health Sciences & Human Services Library, University of Maryland-Baltimore

Majors/MLA Chapter Project of the Year Award

Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona for their innovative use of videoteleconferencing to extend a chapter meeting beyond one location, utilizing new technologies to benefit members and the profession at large

Marcia C. Noyes Award

Robert M. Braude, Ph.D., AHIP, Samuel J. Wood Library, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York

Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award

Ellen Gay Detlefsen, D.L.S., School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Murray Gottlieb Prize

Michael A. Flannery, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama-Birmingham for "The Early Botanical Medical Movement as a Reflection of Life, Liberty, and Literacy in Jacksonian America"

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  • Jacqueline Donaldson Doyle, AHIP, Clinical Innovation and Continuing Medical Education, Banner Health System, Phoenix, AZ
  • Beryl Glitz, Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library, Los Angeles
  • Ruth Holst, AHIP, Medical Library, Columbia Hospital, Milwaukee, WI
  • Joanne Gard Marshall, Ph.D., School of Information and Library Sciences, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  • Jocelyn A. Rankin, Ph.D., AHIP, CDC Information Center, Atlanta

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MLA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2002 grants and scholarships. The association will recognize these achievements during MLA '02 in Dallas, TX, at the Awards Luncheon and Ceremony.

2003 Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship

Saroj Bhatia, Library and Multimedia Services, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia. (Alternate: B.I. Obiwusi, Federal School of Radiography, Lagos, Nigeria.)

EBSCO/MLA Annual Meeting Grant
  • Candice Benjes-Small, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA
  • Sandra De Groote, Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois-Chicago
  • Verma Walker, Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois-Chicago
  • Norma Walters, Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois-Chicago
David A. Kronick Traveling Fellowship

Patricia Nelson, AHIP, Denison Memorial Library, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center-Denver

MIS/MLA Career Development Grant

Mary Linn Bergstrom, Biomedical Library Education and Outreach Services, University of California-San Diego; and Marilyn Teolis, AHIP, Baptist Hospital, Nashville, TN

MLA Continuing Education Grant

Linda Collins, AHIP, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

MLA Scholarship

Shelagh Genuis, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Alberta- Edmonton, Canada

MLA Scholarship for Minority Students

Crystal Smith, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland-College Park


For consideration for 2003 awards, applications must be received by November 1, 2002. Grants and scholarship applications must be received by December 1, 2002, unless otherwise noted.

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