Medical Library Association

Grants and Scholarships

MLA Scholarship

A scholarship for up to $5,000 will be granted to a student who is entering a Masters program at an ALA-accredited library school or who has yet to finish at least one half of the program's requirements in the year following the granting of the scholarship.

Award Recipients

2009: Elaine Hicks
2008: Lisa O'Keefe
2007: Catherine Murch
2006: Christine Greipp
2005: Teresa Hammett
2004: Amanda Biggins
2003: Lori Gluckman Winterfeldt
2002: Shelagh Genuis
2001: Beverlee Warren
2000: Laurie Blasingame
1999: Cynthia Lynn Ammons
1998: Heather B. Blunt
1997: Joan Marie Kearns
1996: Sally K. Fessler
1995: Liane Lenski
1994: Ronald Banks
1993: Alicia Busch
1992: Heidi Ann Heilemann
1991: Joyce Condon
1990: Reeta Sinha
1989: Sara Louise Cook
1988: Colleen Anne Marty
1987: Douglas L. Varner

This award was temporarily discontinued after 1980. The scholarship was awarded once again after new guidelines were established similar to the Minority Scholarship in 1987/88.

1980: Fred H. Shapiro
1979: Paul J. Bredderman and Elaine Marie Russo
1978: Patricia Petroni
1977: Mary Ann DeMeo and Philip Wexler
1976: Suzanne Sager
1975: Janet S. Burwell and Kathleen Elaine Graham
1974: Virginia Feagler
1973: Susan B. Loesch and Elizabeth A. Guillaumin
1972: Margaret Summers and Lawrence Klein
1971: Mary Hayes and Helen Plachta
1970:
1969: Deborah Bird, Diane Magidson, and Marialice Wilson
1968: Linda Angold, Howertine Leona Farrell, and Hollace Ellen Henkel
1967: Beatrice Kovars and Charles Snell
1966: Ronald Jeffreys and Jay S. Richmond
1965: Dorothy Eakin

For more information about any of MLA's grants or scholarships, contact Lisa C. Fried, 312.419.9094 x28.