Winners Named for the 2006 EBSCO/MLA Meeting Grants

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., U.S.A., April 3, 2006 – EBSCO Information Services and the Medical Library Association are pleased to announce the winners of the 2006 EBSCO/MLA Meeting Grants.

They are Karen Goodell, Palmer Health Sciences Library, Palmer College of Chiropractic, Davenport , Iowa ; Lillian Hoffecker, AHIP, Denison Library, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center-Denver ; Xialoi Li, Carlson Health Sciences Library, University of California-Davis; and Dana Wyles, Family Resource Center , Mount Sinai Hospital , New York .

The grant, which subsidizes conference costs for first-time attendees, enables MLA members who are new to the profession to attend the association’s annual meeting. The award provides up to $1,000 for travel and conference-related expenses.

Applicants must be currently employed as health sciences librarians and have between two and five years’ experience working in a health sciences library. For more information about this award, visit http://www.mlanet.org/awards/grants/index.html.

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