Philadelphia Regional Chapter / Medical Library Association
Congratulations to MLA-Phil chapter members who won MLA 2008 awards:
Mark Puterbaugh, Warner Memorial Library, Eastern University, St. Davids, PA
Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship
and
Karen Albert, AHIP, Talbot Research Library, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grant
See mlanet.org for a full list of winners.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) offers support for basic and applied research in biomedical informatics and bioinformatics. The scope of NLM’s interest in the research domain of informatics is interdisciplinary, encompassing basic informatics problem areas in the application domains of health care and health administration, public health, basic biomedical research, clinical translational research and health information management in disasters. Thus, in most instances, informatics projects of interest to NLM involve the application of computer and information sciences to information problems in a biomedical domain. NLM defines biomedical informatics as the science of optimal organization, management, presentation and utililization of information relevant to medicine and biology. Informatics research produces concepts, tools and approaches that contribute to what is known about the capture, storage, integration, representation, management, dissemination and use of data, information and knowledge. NLM also supports research projects focused on biomedical (rather than informatics) research questions, but approached exclusively by novel or advanced informatics techniques applied to information and data produced by others.
The complete Funding Opportunity Announcement, PAR-08-080, can be found here:
| March 23, 2008 |
Application deadline: March 23
Do you know a librarian providing vital consumer health information or doing innovative work with technologies? Is a promising library student working in your library? Could you use some monetary support to attend a professional development workshop?
Awards will be made at our Annual Meeting to be held on April 17. Nominate yourself or someone you know and submit the required applications to the Nominating Committee by March 23rd.
Send completed applications to: Nina Long, Nominating Committee Chair, The Wistar Institute, 3601 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Congratulations to Rachel Resnick, editor of the Chronicle and recipient of a NN/LM MAR Technology Improvement Award. The gerontological research library of Polisher Research Institute, at the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life upgraded its equipment to provide high quality document delivery service.
The funds also enabled the purchase of a new color fax and color print machine, to replace older models that kept having problems. How nice it is to be able to print photos of people that don’t look like little green men from Mars!
| November 1, 2007 | ||
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This message is being posted on behalf of Sarah Kirby, Jury Chair, 2007-2008 Thomson Scientific/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award Jury:
The Rogers Award, originally called the ISI Information Advancement Award, is presented annually in recognition of outstanding contributions for the application of technology to the delivery of health science information, to the science of information, or to the facilitation of the delivery of health science information. The award has been sponsored by the Thomson Institute for Scientific Information since 1973. The recipient receives a cash award of $500 and will be recognized at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, May 16-21, 2008, in Chicago, Illinois. More information on the award and past winners is available here. A copy of the nomination form, eligibility information and instructions are available here. All nominations are due by November 1, 2007.
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