Philadelphia Regional Chapter / Medical Library Association
The MLA Research, Development, and Demonstration Project Grant is awarded annually to support projects that will promote excellence in the field of health sciences librarianship and information sciences. Grants range up to $1,000 and more than one grant may be awarded in a year.
An application and more information about the grant is available, or contact Anne K. Heimann, jury chair. Applications are due December 1, 2008.
MLA recognizes that there are many innovators in our profession creating new information services and using technology in novel ways. Maybe you are one of them? Or maybe you work with or know someone who is? We encourage you to take a moment to think about what your colleagues are contributing and nominate them for the Thomson Scientific/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award. Read more» » »
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:
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.
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