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Awards

MLA Awards The Best of 2011

Each year, MLA gives a variety of awards, grants, and scholarships to individuals to recognize and support 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 2011 winners and nominees!

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Virginia L. and William K. Beatty MLA Volunteer Service Award

Kay E. Wellik, AHIP, Mayo Clinic Library, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ

Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year

Nancy Tannery, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship

Barbara J. Henry, AHIP, Junior Board Cancer Resource Library, Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE

Janet Doe Lectureship for 2012

Mark E. Funk, AHIP, FMLA, Samuel J. Wood Library, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

Carla J. Funk Governmental Relations Award

J. Michael Homan, AHIP, FMLA, Mayo Clinic Libraries, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Green Project of the Year Award (One-time award)

NIH Division of Library Services, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lectureship

Peter Hotez, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC

Majors/MLA Chapter Project of the Year Award

Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona (MLGSCA) for their pioneering use of MLA's MegaMeeting for their spring 2010 continuing education and business meeting

Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award

Gale G. Hannigan, AHIP, Medical Sciences Library, Texas A&M University-College Station

John P. McGovern Award Lectureship

Clay Shirky, "Technology/Media: The Future, Innovation, Business Strategy, Marketing and Sales, Ethics, and Culture"

MLA Award for Distinguished Public Service

The Friends of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD

MLA President's Award

Susan S. Starr, retired, Biomedical Library, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Marcia C. Noyes Award

Carol G. Jenkins, AHIP, FMLA, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hil

Rittenhouse Award

Mahria Lebow, School of Library, Archival and Information Sciences, University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada, for "Looking for Answers: On Screen and Off"

Thomson Reuters/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award

Lei Wang, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT

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  • Trenton Boyd, AHIP, FMLA, Veterinary Medical Library, University of Missouri-Columbia
  • Karen Butter, AHIP, FMLA, Library and Center for Knowledge Management, University of California-San Francisco
  • Lynn M. Fortney, FMLA, EBSCO Information Services, Birmingham, AL

To top of page Grants and Scholarships

MLA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2011 grants and scholarships. The association will recognize these achievements during MLA '11 in Minneapolis, MN, at the Awards Ceremony and Luncheon.

Continuing Education Award
  • Beth A. Lewis, Talbot Research Library, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship for 2012
  • Midrar Ullah, Army Medical College, National University of Sciences and Technology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
EBSCO/MLA Annual Meeting Grants
  • Trish Chatterley, John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta-Edmonton, Canada;
  • Anna Katherine Crawford, Health Sciences Library, West Virginia University-Morgantown;
  • Lara Handler, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill;
  • Ryan Rafferty, Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois-Chicago, Urbana, IL

David A. Kronick Traveling Fellowship
Linda C. Butson, AHIP, Health Sciences Center Library, University of Florida-Gainesville

Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship

Thane Chambers, Faculty of Nursing Library, University of Alberta-Edmonton, Canada

Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grant

Melissa Resnick, AHIP, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD

MLA Annual Meeting Scholarship

Montie' L. Dobbins, AHIP, Medical Library, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport

MLA Research, Development, and Demonstration Project Grant

Kristine M. Alpi, AHIP, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University-Raleigh

MLA Scholarship

Karen Gutzman, Department of Library and Information Sciences, College of Information, University of North Texas-Denton

MLA Scholarship for Minority Students

Phill Jo, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, University of Oklahoma-Norman

Additional Awards:
Librarians Without Borders Grant (sponsored by the MLA International Cooperative Section)

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences-Worcester

For consideration for 2012 awards, applications must be received by November 1, 2011. Grants and scholarship applications must be received by December 1, 2011, unless otherwise noted.

Questions should be directed to Carla Funk, mlapd2@mlahq.org, 312.419.9094 x28.

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