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Awards

MLA Awards
The Best of 2006

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 2006 winners and nominees!

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Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year

Linda Walton, Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship

Janet Schneider, AHIP, Library Service, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL

Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences

Core Public Health Journals Project

Janet Doe Lectureship for 2007

Henry L. Lemkau Jr., FMLA, Louis Calder Memorial Library, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Ida and George Eliot Prize

Jean P. Shipman, AHIP, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University-Richmond, and Sarah B. Watstein, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California-Los Angeles, for "Emerging Roles of Health Sciences Librarians"

Murray Gottlieb Prize

Suzanne Shultz, Philip A. Hoover, MD, Library, York Hospital, York, PA, for "The Kappa Lambda Society of Hippocrates: A Reconsideration in the Context of Its Time"

Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lectureship

Anthony S. Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Webcast available.

Majors/MLA Chapter Project of the Year Award

Midcontinental Chapter of MLA for their innovative project on membership recruitment for librarians at both the chapter and national level

Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award

Connie Schardt, AHIP, Medical Center Library, Duke University, Durham, NC

President's Award

Renee Bougard, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region, Houston, TX, and Janice Kelly, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region, Baltimore, MD

Rittenhouse Award

Dolores Skowronek, School of Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, for "An Ultrasound Digital Library for Anesthesiologists"

Thomson Scientific/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award

New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)

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  • Karen Brewer, AHIP, FMLA, Ehrman Medical Library, New York University Medical Center-New York
  • Janet Fisher, AHIP, FMLA, retired, Quillen College of Medicine Library, East Tennessee State University-Johnson City
  • Nunzia Bettinsoli Giuse, AHIP, FMLA, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  • David Morse, AHIP, FMLA, Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California-Los Angeles
  • Mary L. Ryan, AHIP, FMLA, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Library, University of Arkansas-Little Rock

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MLA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2006 grants and scholarships. The association will recognize these achievements during MLA '06 in Phoenix, AZ, at the Awards Ceremony and Luncheon.

Continuing Education Award

Ellen Justice, Christiana Hospital Library, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE

Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship for 2007

Alison Annet Kinengyere, Kampala, Uganda, and Cheng Jin, Beijing, People's Republic of China

EBSCO/MLA Annual Meeting Grants
  • Karen Goodell, Palmer Health Sciences Library, Palmer College of Chiropractic, Davenport, IA
  • Lilian Hoffecker, AHIP, Denison Library, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center-Denver
  • Xiaoli Li, Carlson Health Sciences Library, University of California-Davis
  • Dana Wyles, Family Resource Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Hospital Libraries Section/MLA Professional Development Grant

Rita Haydar, Health Sciences Library, St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne, PA, and Joan Wilson, William T. Wood Medical Library, Kootenai Medical Center, Coeur d'Alene, ID

David A. Kronick Traveling Fellowship

Robin Devin, Library, University of Rhode Island-Kingston

Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship

Indra Neil Sarkar, Division of Invertebrate Zoology and Library Services, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grant

Ellen Justice, Christiana Hospital Library, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE

MLA Scholarship

Christine Greipp, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

MLA Scholarship for Minority Students

Monique Escamilla, Department of Information Studies, University of California-Los Angeles

MLA Scholarship for Minority Students, Annual Meeting (one-time award)

Ivonne Martinez, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
(Alternate: Ningning Norah Xiao, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada)

Thomson Scientific/MLA Doctoral Fellowship

Timothy P. Hogan, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign


For consideration for 2007 awards, applications must be received by November 1, 2006. Grants and scholarship applications must be received by December 1, 2006, unless otherwise noted.