Call for MLA-2001 CE Course Ideas

The MLA Continuing Education (CE) Committee would like you to submit your ideas for exciting courses to be offered at MLA 2001 in Orlando, FL. Please do not hesitate to send any course topics you would like to see, and if you know of any instructors or colleagues proficient to teach in these areas, include their names. We would also like to know of any classes from past meetings that you would like to see offered again.

If you are an instructor with a course, or an idea for a course, that you would like to offer to your MLA colleagues, we would like to hear from you as well. For more information on how to teach your course at a MLA annual meeting, see page 26 of the February 1997 issue of MLA News. For copies of that article, contact Kathleen Gaydos-Combs via email at mlapd1@mlahq.org

Please send your course ideas to , 2001 National ProgramCommittee, CE Liaison, Duke University Medical Center Library, DUMC 3702, Durham, NC 27710
919-660-1157; 919-681-7599 (fax); julie.garrison@duke.edu.

originally submitted to hlib-nw, 11-18-99, by Julie Garrisong arri008@mc.duke.edu

HLS/MLA Professional Development Grant

SPONSORED BY THE HOSPITAL LIBRARIES SECTION

Hospital and clinical librarians: Are you seeking funding to attend a meeting, further your professional education or conduct research? The HLS/MLA Professional Development Grant is intended to encourage participation in professional programs or to support reimbursement for expenses incurred in conducting scientific research; to aid librarians working in hospitals and other clinical care institutions in developing and acquiring the knowledge and skills delineated in Platform for Change (MLA's Educational Policy Statement) and Using Scientific Evidence to Improve Information Practice (MLA's Research Policy Statement).

The deadline for the next grant award is February 1, 2000. Up to $800 is available to the recipient. The award will be made April 15, 2000.

For more information, please contact:
Anne Greenspan
Coordinator, Research and Professional Recognition
Medical Library Association
Suite 1900, 65 East Wacker Place
Six North Michigan Avenue, Suite 300
Chicago, Illinois 60601-7298
312/419-9094, Ext. 28
312/419-8950 - Fax