MLA Mentoring Task Force
The MLA Board of Directors appointed a task force to define and develop a unified, comprehensive concept of mentoring within MLA. The Task Force is particularly interested in receiving answers to the following questions:
1. What services and features would you like to have implemented in the ideal MLA Mentor Program?
2. If MLA were successful in launching a Mentor Program with service features, which are of value to you, would you participate either as a mentor or a mentee?
3. How much time would you be able to commit to participation in a Mentor Program?
Please email or fax comments and suggestions to:
Ysabel Bertolucci, AHIP
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
280 West MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94611
Fax 510 596 1500
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
Peggy Jones, Librarian
Pritzker Research Library
Children's Memorial Institute for Education & Research
2300 Children's Plaza, M/C 205
Chicago, IL 60614-3394
(Voice) 773-868-8041
(Fax) 773-880-3282
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Peggy Jones
NLM Second Year Associate Fellowship
Wanted: Libraries to host an NLM Associate Fellow at their site next year, September 2000-August 2001. There are currently seven first year Associates eligible for a second year placement, and the Library anticipates that three to five of them will be placed. Proposals are due by January 21, 2000. The RFP is included as an attachment and is also available at www.nlm.nih.gov/about/training/associate/nlmassocrfp.html.
Questions may be directed to:
Nancy K. Roderer
Coordinator, Associate Fellows Program
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
Phone: (301)435-4083
Fax: (301)480-1467
originally posted on Medlib-L 12-2-99 by
Naomi Miller <MILLERN@MAIL.NLM.NIH.GOV>