Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships

All grants, scholarships, and fellowships are considered annually, but are only awarded when applicants clearly meet or exceed requirements.

• MLA will acknowledge receipt of all applications. Most grants and scholarships will open September 11 and have a deadline of December 2. See individual pages listed below for further details.
• MLA membership is required for most grants.
• An announcement of all grant recipients is made in the spring. See the vConnections page for access to recordings of past virtual award ceremonies.  
• Some MLA grants, scholarships, and fellowships are funded through financial revenues generated from MLA restricted funds (endowment). The amount and number of those grants, scholarships, or fellowships will be determined annually based on the funding of the endowment. 

To help sustain and develop grants, MLA welcomes your tax-deductible donation to the Scholarship Fund.

Grants and Scholarships

Advanced Education

• MLA Doctoral Fellowship - Retired - Fosters and encourages students who have been admitted to candidacy in a doctoral program in medical librarianship or information science.
• MLA Scholarship - Ana D. Cleveland - Scholarships for students enrolled in or entering an American Library Association–accredited library school.
• MLA Scholarship - Gwendolyn S. Cruzat - Scholarship for students enrolled in or entering an American Library Association–accredited library school.
• MLA Scholarship for Underrepresented Students - Beverly Murphy - Scholarships for students enrolled in or entering an American Library Association–accredited library school.

Professional Development

• Continuing Education Grant - Supports continuing education opportunities to enhance knowledge of librarianship's theoretical, administrative, or technical aspects.
• Continuing Education Grant - Harriet L. Steuernagel - Supports professional development for members in the library and dental professions.
• Latinx Heritage Grant - Naomi C. Broering - Supports professional activities in cutting-edge medical information services for the Latinx community.
• Medical Informatics Career Development Grant - Supports career development activities that advance medical informatics.
• MLA-NLM Spectrum Scholarship - Retired - Provides support to ALA Spectrum Scholarship Program.
• Professional Development Grant - Collection Development - Supports educational activities for health sciences librarians in collection development and related information management fields.
• Professional Development Grant - Hospital Libraries - Supports librarians in clinical settings by funding educational or research activities, including acquiring skills from Competencies for Lifelong Learning and Professional Success.
• Professional Development Grant - Mary K. Haver Consumer Health - Supports educational activities for consumer health librarians, including attending conferences, obtaining training, and taking continuing education classes.

Annual Conference Support

• MLA Annual Conference Grant - Funds in-person attendance to the association's annual conference.
• MLA Annual Conference Grant - Ysabel Bertolucci - Funds in-person attendance to the association's annual conference.

Research Related

• MLA Research, Development, and Demonstration Project Grant - Funds projects promoting excellence in health sciences librarianship and information sciences for non-operational, broadly useful activities.
• Research Fellowship - Donald A. B. Lindberg - Funds research that expands the knowledge base of health sciences information management and enhances health sciences librarianship.
• Research Fellowship - Eugene Garfield - Supports research on the discoverability and dissemination of information by exploring the history of information science in the health sciences, emphasizing how historical insights can inform current practices and future developments.
• Visiting Fellowship - David A. Kronick and Charles W. Sargent - Supports studying a specific aspect of health sciences librarianship by visiting multiple North American health sciences libraries or knowledge centers.

International Focus

• International Fellowship - Cunningham Memorial - Supports the education and training of health science librarians from outside the U.S. and Canada, funding their attendance at the MLA annual conference and supervised work in health sciences libraries.
• Librarians Without Borders International Scholarship - Ursula Poland - Retired - Funds international projects by US or Canadian health sciences librarians related to health sciences librarianship.
• MLA Librarians without Borders - Elsevier Foundation-Research4Life Grant - Retired - Supports training in low-income countries, enabling users to effectively utilize HINARI/Research4Life resources and serve as training resources for their institutions or countries.