Rebecca Graves received the MU Department of Physical Therapy Education Partner Award 2011. The PT department surprised her with the award while she was teaching a session, giving her a plaque that reads:
“For continuing commitment and outstanding educational contribution to the students and faculty of the University of Missouri, Department of Physical Therapy. The work and spirit of this recipient exemplify the department mission of Discovery in Action…Excellent in Caring.”
Mike Holland was selected by the Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA) to receive the 2011 Distinguished Service Award. He received the award in August in Chicago at the annual ACA meeting.
Congratulations to Deb Ward, MaryEllen Sievert, Barb Jones & Dirk Burhans for winning first place in the MLA poster contest and the hospital librarian research award at the MLA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis in May!
Congratulations to the Winning Research Posters and Papers from MLA ’11!
The MLA Research Section is pleased to announce the winners for best research papers and posters at MLA ’11. Thank you to the 50-plus judges who volunteered their expertise to help select these deserving awardees. To learn more about the selection process, visit the Research Section website.
Poster Winners
First Place and Hospital Librarian Research Award
Patient Care and the Hospital Library: A Regional Study
Mary Ellen C. Sievert, Research Consultant and Professor Emerita; Deborah H. Ward, AHIP, Director; Dirk Burhans, Research Specialist; Barbara Jones, Outreach and Advocacy, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region, J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; Margaret Bandy, AHIP, FMLA, Manager, Library and Media Services, Medical Library, Exempla St. Joseph Hospital, Denver, CO; Jerry Carlson, AHIP, Medical Librarian, Medical Library, Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, CO; Rosalind Dudden, AHIP, FMLA, former Director, Library and Knowledge Services, Gerald Tucker Memorial Medical Library, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO; Wilma Bunch, Director, Hospital Library, Cox Memorial Hospital, Springfield, MO; Emily Eresuma, Librarian, Medical Library, Primary Children’s Medical Center; Erica Lake, Senior Medical Librarian, Health Information Center, LDS Hospital; Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT
Congratulations to HSL librarian Caryn Scoville, winner of the Outstanding Clinical Educator Award for the Department of Child Health. At the recent annual awards banquet, Caryn was recognized for the librarian/informationist support she provides to the Child Health department. Caryn participates in the education program by providing training, research support and consultations in conjunction with the Evidence Based Medicine Journal Club and Morning Report. Caryn holds degrees in biology and library science from the University of Missouri. She began working with the Child Health Department in 2008, and has been a librarian at the J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library since 1999.
Mike Holland been selected by the Academy of Certified Archivists to receive the 2011 Distinguished Service Award. This award acknowledges extraordinary service rendered to the Academy. The ACA is under no obligation to present the Distinguished Service Award in any particular year, and in any case shall never give more than two such awards in one calendar year. He will receive the award this August in Chicago at the annual ACA meeting.
June DeWeese will be honored at this year’s Tribute to MU Women on March 17. She and the others have been selected for this honor because they have:
1. Worked above and beyond the expectations of their job responsibilities to help create an environment of equity, fairness and justice for women on the MU campus, including students, faculty and staff;
2. Demonstrated respect for the diversity of women’s experience; and
3. Helped promote the advancement of women through education, advocacy, support and activism.
Trenton Boyd has been named a Fellow in the Medical Library Association. http://www.mlanet.org/awards/awards_2011.html
MLA Fellows are Regular Members and are elected by the Board of Directors, for sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and to the advancement of the purposes of MLA.
Trenton Boyd & Kate Anderson have just won this award from Medical Library Assn: http://colldev.mlanet.org/about/awards.htm
…for the paper they published last year in JMLA: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2947140/
On Tuesday, Rebecca Graves was recognized for being one of 20 MU faculty, advisers or academic administrators nominated for the Excellence in Education award. This award is given by the Division of Student Affairs and the MU Parents Association to faculty members, advisers and academic administrators who make “significant contributions to the out-of-class learning experiences of MU students and who have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to student learning and personal development.”