{"id":5493,"date":"2014-10-03T14:28:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T21:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2014-10-03T14:28:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T21:28:18","slug":"mla-research-development-and-demonstration-project-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=5493","title":{"rendered":"MLA Research, Development, and Demonstration Project Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing health sciences librarians are encouraged to apply for the MLA Research, Development or Demonstration Project Grants.\u00a0 Through grants ranging from $100.00 to $1,000.00, the Medical Library Association (MLA) aims to support projects that promote excellence in the field of health sciences librarianship and information sciences.\u00a0 Grants will not be given to support an activity that is operational in nature or has only local usefulness.\u00a0 More than one award may be granted in a year.<\/p>\n<p>Applications must be received by <strong>December 1<sup>st<\/sup><\/strong>.\u00a0 Application form, eligibility criteria and submission details are available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlanet.org\/awards\/grants\/research.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.mlanet.org\/awards\/grants\/research.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for examples?\u00a0 Research, Development or Demonstration Project Grants have funded the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;A research study:      Does exemplary library services to patients and their family members,      friends, and caregivers influence patient satisfaction scores?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The efficacy of      digital conversion of audiotape collection to CD format measuring change      in use and evaluating user satisfaction&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;An investigation      of electronic book use in an Academic Medical Center&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The publication      rate of poster entries and abstracts from MLA annual meetings in peer-reviewed      or respective professional and trade journals&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A study of the      experiences and opinions of Loansome Doc Libraries and end-users in the      Midwest United States&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Issues surrounding      the administration of a credit course for medical students: Survey of US      academic health science librarians&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing health sciences librarians are encouraged to apply for the MLA Research, Development or Demonstration Project Grants.\u00a0 Through grants ranging from $100.00 to $1,000.00, the Medical Library Association (MLA) aims to support projects that promote excellence in the field of health sciences librarianship and information sciences.\u00a0 Grants will not be given to support an activity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5494,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions\/5494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}