Free Resources

Funding Alert
Duke University
https://researchfunding.duke.edu/

Grants.gov
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (manages this database of resources from all government agencies)
http://www.grants.gov/applicants/find_grant_opportunities.jsp

Funding Beyond NLM and NN/LM
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
http://nnlm.gov/funding/grants.html

Illinios Research Information Service (IRIS)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UIUC Library
http://www.library.illinois.edu/iris/

NIH RePORTER
U.S. National Institutes of Health
http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm

NLM Grants and Funding: Extramural Programs
National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/

RDFunding
University of Leeds
http://www.rdfunding.org.uk/default.asp

ScanGrants™
Samaritan Health Services (SHS) Center for Health Research and Quality
http://www.scangrants.com

USA.gov for Nonprofits
U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies
http://www.usa.gov/Business/Nonprofit.shtml

For those of you who might have thought of GrantsNet (AAA GrantsNet), the database was discontinued as of July 1.
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAA GrantsNet)
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/funding

Licensed Resources

Community of Science / COS Funding Opportunities
ProQuest
http://www.cos.com/

Foundation Directory Online
Foundation Center
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/

Foundation Search/BIG Online
MetaSoft
http://www.foundationsearch.com/index.asp
http://www.bigdatabase.com/

GrantGopher
GrantGopher.com
https://www.grantgopher.com/grants_for_nonprofits.aspx

GrantStation
GrantStation.com, Inc.
http://grantstation.com/

GuideStar
GuideStar USA, Inc.
http://www2.guidestar.org/Home.aspx

SciVal Funding
Elsevier
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/electronicproductdescription.cws_home/720941/description#description

SPIN (Sponsored Programs Info Network)
InfoEd
http://www1.infoed.org/modules/grantsAndContracts.cfm

Candidates must apply online at http://www.fccc.edu/careers/index.html.  The online description can be found here: https://www.ultirecruit.com/fox1000/JobBoard/JobDetails.aspx?__ID=*EBB500DCA0D112F6.

TALBOT RESEARCH LIBRARY seeks full-time librarian for active, service-oriented information center serving the research, clinical and administrative staff of Fox Chase Cancer Center. The librarian will be involved in many of the library’s core operations. Specific responsibilities include: reference service, user assistance and user instruction, internet and online bibliographic database searches, assist the Director in marketing and evaluating library services and resources, provide maintenance and support for library technologies and assist in collection management.

Requirements:

• Master’s in Library Science (ALA accredited) along with at least one year working (or volunteering) in a medical, scientific or academic library.
• Knowledge of medical and scientific terminology, excellent internet and online searching skills, excellent communication skills (written and oral), excellent instructional and teaching skills, proficient technology skills and an ability to figure out solutions to tech problems.
• A strong commitment to service and the ability to work in a team as well as independently. Excellent work habits and a professional attitude.
• Must possess a proficient knowledge of online databases and internet searching, and an understanding of collection management.
• Must possess excellent organizational skills in relation to the diversification of job responsibilities. Ability to dissect a problem, devise alternative approaches, and persist until it is resolved.
• Bibliographic instructional skills, prior experience or coursework in online instructional tools, or a teaching background preferred.
• Marketing skills a plus.
• Must have good time management skills and an ability to evaluate priorities.
• Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. Need to be able to successfully communicate with technical support personnel either within Fox Chase or outside the institution. Must be able to clearly explain technical information.
• Should keep supervisor apprised of progress with job tasks.

Rachel Resnick

My term as Chair of the Communications Committee comes to an end this summer. While I will continue other duties through mid-May, this issue of the Chronicle—my sixteenth as Editor—is my last. There are no plans at this time to continue the publication. The first issue I edited was the winter issue of 2006 (Volume 24, No. 1): <http://mlaphil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/winter2006.pdf>, taking over from Linda Katz, who had served as Editor for seven years. It has been an honor to serve the Chapter and a pleasure to work with the members of my committee and the Board.

Serving the Chapter gives one more personal exposure to other Chapter members. One discovers more about their personalities, work styles, and lives, and in more intimate settings than during educational activities or large conferences. I certainly have met a few interesting personalities during my tenure, first as proofreader for the Chronicle, then as Committee Chair and Board member. No, I’m not going to name names here—you’ll just have to get involved on a committee and discover all those quirky folks yourself. It’s well worth the effort.

I hope this issue lives up to its reputation. It has been a busy year for programs, with more to come, as Gary Kaplan indicates in his Program Committee Report. Calvin Wang regales us with details about the recent PAFA Anatomy/Academy exhibit tour. Launching this month is the Value of Libraries survey, described by Susan Cavanaugh. Gary also asks us to REGISTER! for our upcoming Annual Meeting (April 6). Speaking of which, get your nominations and applications in to Cynthia McClellan for Chapter grants, awards, and elections, whose winners will be announced at the meeting. Additional events are listed in our ever-present Calendar, edited by Sheryl Panka-Bryman, who also edited Member and Library News, in which she included some news of her own. You can Meet Your Fellow Chapter Member Gerard Regan in this issue in an interview edited by Kate Eckert. Chair Andrea Kenyon asks us to please bring to the Annual Meeting our gently used professional clothes for a worthy cause. More Chapter news comes by way of Priscilla Stephenson regarding a four-chapter conference in 2012. In National news, Anne Seymour provides information about the Chapter Council Roundtables that will be presented at MLA’s 2011 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Minneapolis.  Regarding social media, LinkedIn has issued an improvement to our group that I think you will like. And Carlos Rodriguez returns with his TechnoHumanist views on Mendeley. Read all about it in this issue.

Please consider this a written invitation to share news, views, and information with your fellow chapter members. If you’ve got a blog post just dying to be written, go ahead and write it and post it to the website. Then be sure to promote it via the email list and the LinkedIn group. Did you know that through the magic of the Networked Blogs software, what you post to the website gets automatically posted on the Chapter’s Facebook page? Write one post, get two outlets! And if you promote your post via our LinkedIn group, that post will be searchable on the Internet—even more free publicity for your writing—and your reputation. Your first step is to register for a WordPress account so that you can post to the website: <http://www.mlaphil.org/wp/wp-login.php?action=register>. Information about our other social media is here: <http://www.mlaphil.org/wp/contact/>. Twitter is pretty much reserved for Board members, since there’s a password involved, but if you want to promote something there, send your 140-character or fewer note to a Board member, who can post it for you.

I rest assured that I leave Chapter communications in good hands—yours. Don’t be shy. Get involved.

Best wishes,

Rachel Resnick
Communications Committee Chair, 2009-2011

Ms. Holloway attended Bryn Mawr College for two years, then earned her undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania College for Women in 1945. She earned her MSLS from Drexel in 1950. Prior to joining CPP in 1964, she assisted Dr. Waldo Nelson in editing the journal Pediatrics. The essentials of Lisabeth’s career in Philadelphia comprise many years of service at the College of Physicians and a long stretch as both volunteer librarian and archivist for the Germantown Historical Society and editor of the Society’s Crier. While at the College of Physicians, she created a small guide to medical-historical holdings in Philadelphia which, though done in the 1970s, is still useful. She left CPP in 1977. From 1981-1992, organizing its historical archives and materials, she was Director of the Center for the History of Footcare and Footwear at the Philadelphia College of Podiatric Medicine (PCPM), which is now part of Temple University. She retired to North Carolina in 1992, where she did some freelance editing.

She published a variety of articles dealing with subjects in medical history and medical bibliography, and non-medical local history as well. Eleven of the twelve citations found in this PubMed search were authored or co-authored by Ms. Holloway: <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Holloway%20LM[Author]&cmd=DetailsSearch>. Switch the search to the NLM Catalog, and you’ll find four books to add to that bibliography. Over 17,000 American physicians are briefly listed in Lisabeth Holloway’s Medical Obituaries: American Physicians’ Biographical Notices in Selected Medical Journals before 1907, 2 vols (New York: Garland, 1981).

Ms. Holloway was active in MLA’s History of Medicine Libraries Group and was the editor of a directory of history of health sciences collections published in the early 1970s, as indicated in a history of the Health Sciences Section, The History of History in Three Acts <http://www.mla-hhss.org/history.html>. In 1975, a separate group for librarians in the history of health sciences was proposed, and Ms. Holloway founded MLA’s Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences (ALHHS) group in 1976. She was editor of its publication, Watermark. The group presented Dr. Estelle Brodman with the first Lisabeth M. Holloway Award in 1993 for “outstanding service to the association since its conception and her contributions in significant ways to the development of the organization and to many of its members” (McClure L. “Lisabeth Holloway Award.” Watermark. 1993;16(3):41, cited by McClure LW. A student of history: perspectives on the contributions of Estelle Brodman. J Med Libr Assoc. 2008 Jul;96(3):255-61. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2479061/#mlab-96-03-15-McClure1>)

Many thanks to Ms. Holloway’s son George and to Dr. Steve Peitzman for their assistance. As a student, Dr. Peitzman worked for Lisabeth when she was Curator at CPP, and remained a friend of the family. The two also co-authored several articles on local medical history, published in the Germantown Crier.

Rachel Resnick
Communications Committee Chair, 2009-2011