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MLA Rittenhouse Award

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$750

Due: November 15, 2026

No essay

No min. GPA required

No transcripts required

Eligibility

MLA Rittenhouse Award, with an application deadline in November, offers numerous awards of $750 each.

Description

The Rittenhouse Award, is presented annually by the Medical Library Association (MLA) for the best unpublished paper or web-based project on health sciences librarianship or medical informatics. The author must be a current member of MLA. The author must also be a student currently enrolled in an American Library Association (ALA)-accredited program of library and information studies; or have recently graduated from an ALA-accredited program of library and information studies during the last eighteen months; or be enrolled as a trainee in an internship program in health sciences librarianship or medical informatics. Papers must have been written or web-based project completed during the 18 months preceding the deadline and during the student's course work toward a graduate degree in library and information studies or medical informatics. Papers or web-based projects must treat some aspect of health sciences librarianship or medical informatics and may be bibliographical, address a health sciences issue or topic, or report the results of research. Papers which have been published publicly in any print or electronic format or are under consideration for publication are not eligible. Authors of web-based projects should submit a needs assessment, information on development of the website, evaluation of the website, and a summary outlining the project plan and evaluation results. The Rittenhouse Jury will assess submissions based on the following: importance of topic that would warrant a bibliographic treatment or web-based project, or the quality of the experimental design or arguments developed to support a particular hypothesis or question; originality of the argument, positions taken, methodological rigor, or website solution; impact on the field of health sciences librarianship or medical informatics; and style (clarity, appearance, conciseness, organization, structure). Please visit the award's website or contact the Medical Library Association for more information.

Level of Study

Graduate Student

Scholarship Type

Merit-based STEM