MLA Fellows Award

Eligibility

MLA Fellows Award, with an application deadline in November, offers numerous awards that vary in amount.

Description

The MLA Fellows Award recognizes MLA members for sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and to the advancement of the purposes of MLA. MLA Fellows are members and elected by the Board of Directors for sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and to the advancement of the purposes of MLA. The nominee must be a current Regular member of MLA and must have held Regular or Institutional membership for at least 15 years prior to the nomination for Fellowship. The nominee must possess an ALA-accredited MLS, or Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP) accepted post-baccalaureate degree. The nominee must have at least ten years of professional experience in health information science. The nominee must have five or more years of notable leadership in MLA, demonstrated by one or more elected or appointed offices in the national MLA as a committee, task force, or board member; or one or more elected or appointed offices in an MLA caucus or chapter; or a position as an elected or appointed officer in an allied national association such as ALA, SLA, HeSCA, etc. The nominee must have demonstrated outstanding achievement as evidenced by a highly significant contribution to the goals of the association in a relatively short period of time; or durable achievement by a sustained level of commitment to the goals of the association over a long period of time. The nominee must have demonstrated significant scholarship as evidenced by publication of one or more refereed publications in the area of health sciences librarianship; teaching or development of a course over a sufficient period of time for professional recognition of subject expertise; or research documented by grant funding, publication, or invited presentation of a paper. The nominee must have garnered a professional reputation as evidenced by letters of support or commendation from professional colleagues; being cited by colleagues in the literature; or evidence of adherence to the MLA Code of Ethics. Nominations are accepted from the membership-at-large and from members of the Fellowship and Honorary Members Jury. Nominations should include documents or web links verifying the criteria noted above, plus any other pertinent information regarding suitability of the nominee for Fellowship. Up to three letters of support may be included with the nomination. Please visit the award's website or contact the Medical Library Association for more information.