Open for Submissions: 2020 Hospital Libraries Section/MLA Professional Development Grant

Apply Today!

2020 Hospital Libraries Section/MLA Professional Development Grant

Whether you are in the middle of your career or new to it all, or have worked for many years, the HLS/MLA Professional Development Grant is an opportunity for an amazing professional journey into education or research.

The grant is open to librarians working in a hospital, health system or similar clinical settings. Grant funds can be used for professional development through MEDLIB-ED or to help attend the MLA Annual Meeting or CE courses. It may also be used to support reimbursement for expenses incurred in conducting research such as a statistician to help with survey design, analyses etc.

Eligibility: The applicant must have been employed as a health sciences librarian within the last year in either a hospital or other clinical care institution. MLA membership is required and it’s preferred that applicants be a member of the Hospital Libraries Section/MLA.

For more on eligibility criteria and to submit an application, please visit: https://www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=300

Complete online form and upload all documents no later than December 1, 11:59 p.m. Central Time. Incomplete and late submissions will not be considered.

Questions? Please contact Emily Lawson ([email protected])

Gail Kouame Selected as NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellow for 2019/2020

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) recently announced the members of the 2019/2020 class of the NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program. This jointly sponsored program prepares emerging leaders for director positions in academic health sciences libraries by pairing fellows with mentors for a one-year leadership development experience.

GHSLA member Gail M. Kouame, MLIS, Assistant Director for Research and Education Services at Robert B. Greenblatt, MD Library, Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia was matched with mentor Rick L. Fought, EdD, MLIS, AHIP, Associate Professor and Director of the Health Sciences Library at University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee.

For the complete fellowship announcement, and for more details on the program, please visit NLM’s News & Events Page.

GHSLA Members Publish Article

Congratulations to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Clinical Librarians Kate Daniels, MLIS, AHIP and Emily Lawson,MSLIS, AHIP for publishing an article on REDCap and data visualization in the journal Medical Reference Services Quarterly.

Daniels K, Lawson E. Enhancing Clinical Librarian Work Processes and Communicating Service Impact with REDCap and Data Visualization. Med Ref Serv Q. 2019 Apr-Jun;38(2):187-196. doi: 10.1080/02763869.2019.1588051. PubMed PMID: 31173566.

Abstract: Due to staffing changes, clinical librarians in a large pediatric health care system needed to streamline how user requests were received and how best to handle the shared workflow. This article describes how REDCap and SAS were implemented to improve the management of requests, capture comprehensive user statistics, and convey the value of the library services through enhanced reporting.

GHSLA Members Awarded Grant to Exhibit at Georgia Libraries Conference

Shannon Glover and Tyler Moses received an All of Us Exhibitor Award through the NNLM/SEA Funding Program to exhibit at the Georgia Libraries Conference, the annual joint meeting of the Georgia Library Association and the Georgia Association for Instructional Technology. This year’s meeting will occur October 9-11, 2019, in Macon. At the conference Shannon and Tyler will disseminate information about the All of Us program and how public libraries can support the initiative.