HLS/MLA PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT GRANT
SPONSORED BY THE HOSPITAL LIBRARIES SECTION
The purpose of the HLS/MLA Professional Development Grant is to encourage participation in professional programs which will 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 HLS/MLA Professional Development Grant may also be utilized to support reimbursement for expenses incurred in conducting scientific research such as professional assistance in survey research design, statistical analyses, etc.
ELIGIBILITY
TERMS
For further information, please contact the Professional Development Department at the Medical Library Association, Six North Michigan Avenue, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60602-4805; 312/419-9094, Ext. 28, 312/419-8950 - Fax; mlapd@mlahq.org.
OR for application materials, contact Peggy Jones, Pritzker Research Library, Children's Memorial Hospital, 2300 Children's Plaza, Chicago, IL 60614; 773/868-8041 (phone); 773/880-3282 (fax); p-jones@nwu.edu (email).
The Medical Library Association Awards Committee is seeking nominations for the Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award for the year 2000. The deadline for nominations is 1 November 1999.
The Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award is the Association's newest. It was established in 1998 in honor of Mrs. McClure and was awarded to her in May 1999. Lucretia W. McClure is one of MLA's most respected members and has made numerous contributions to the advancement of the profession.
The award is presented to an individual whom the Association wishes to recognize as an outstanding educator. CE instructors, library school faculty, professional trainers, informaticians or librarians who instruct users are all eligible if they have demonstrated excellence and achievement in teaching, service, curriculum development, mentoring, research, leadership, publications, presentations, special projects or any combination of these areas at local, regional and national levels. Nominees must be employed as health sciences librarians or educators at the time of the award and must have worked in such a position for at least five (5) years immediately preceding the award.
Six copies of the nomination and all accompanying documentation must be submitted by 1 November 1999 to:
Dixie Jones, Chair, MLA Awards Committee
LSUMC Medical Library
P.O. Box 33932
Shreveport, LA 71130-3932
Tel: 318/747-6146
E-mail: djones@lsumc.edu
Please forward this announcement to any interested parties or lists.
submitted by Tom Williams;
originally appeared in Medlib-L listserve, 5-28-99
For those of you who missed MLA this year and/or weren't at the business session in which this was discussed, here is an update of what happened. We had a fairly lengthy discussion of this a while back on this list.
A motion was put forward that the MLA leadership bring to the membership, in the form of a vote on a bylaws change, allowing for single slate elections for president. If passed, the issue would then be voted on later in the year by mail ballot.
After a fair amount of discussion (there was barely a quorum present) the vote came to 174 in favor of the motion and 164 against. This means at some point this year all MLA members will be receiving a mail ballot to ratify this as a bylaws change. To change the bylaws 2/3 of those submitting ballots must support it. There is no minimum number of required voters as far as I can tell for a mail ballot. The bylaws simply state "The Bylaws may be amended or rescinded by two-thirds of those voting by mail ballot..." Whatever your views on this it is essential that you send in your vote once you receive the ballot.
As I've said many times before I think this is a terrible idea and would not serve the association or the membership in any positive way. If fact, as I said at the meeting, I think it would negatively affect our credibility as a viable professional organization. I have been unable to find a library organization with more than 1,000 members that has a single slate. In their argument in favor of the motion, supporters compared MLA to a number of other library-related organizations which did have single slate. However, all of those were small groups. They specifically mentioned the AAHSL group but failed to mention that AAHSL has fewer than 200 members. I am on record as favoring single slate for smaller groups.
By the way, a number of people who voted in favor of the motion came up to me later and said they would not vote to ratify this as a bylaws change but felt the membership at large should have a chance to vote on it.
It is important that all members have input into this issue so DO remember to vote and send in your ballot when you get it.
Tom
Thomas Williams, Director
(334) 460-6885
Biomedical Library and Media (334) 460-7638(fax)
Production Services University of South Alabama
twilliam@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
College of Medicine
http://southmed.usouthal.edu
BML 326B
Mobile, Alabama 36688-0002
originally submitted by Carla Funk; originally posted to MLA_IS, 6-30-99
MLA Directory Changes Due
Dear Colleagues,
The 1999/2000 MLA Membership Directory will be distributed to all members this fall. We would like to include any recent ADDRESS CHANGES that you may have in the new directory. Please visit MLANET's update page or complete the form below and redirect a reply to <mailto:mlams2@mlahq.org> to submit any NEW information by JULY 15, 1999. Be sure to include your member ID# as well as any area code changes. If you have already submitted changes or don't have any changes, please don't reply to this e-mail.
Thank you for your help!
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MLA Banner Giveaway
If you want one of the banners that flew above the streets of Chicago during MLA '99, please e-mail mlacom1@mlahq.org with the word BANNER in the subject line. These banners have either the MLA logo or the '99 annual meeting logo "Present Tense-Future Perfect" on them. Include your choice of banner, either the MLA logo or '99 meeting logo, in your e-mail. Availability is limited so the banners will be given away on a first-come first-serve basis.