{"id":6114,"date":"2020-09-09T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2020-09-09T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:15:01","slug":"applications-now-open-for-professional-development-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=6114","title":{"rendered":"Applications now open for Professional Development Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On behave of the Awards Committee\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEADLINE: Quickly approaching \u2013 September 15<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 Apply fast!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purpose:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To support professional development activities including attendance at classes, conferences and meetings;<\/p>\n<p>To provide MLGSCA members with the opportunity to increase their competence in the theoretical, administrative and\/or technical aspects of librarianship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eligibity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The applicant must:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Be a regular member of MLGSCA;<\/li>\n<li>Hold a graduate degree in library\/information science;<\/li>\n<li>Be a practicing medical librarian with at least two years of professional experience;<\/li>\n<li>Be willing to write at least a 500 word summary on the event for the MLGSCA blog;<\/li>\n<li>Not have received this award in the past three years.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Consideration will be given to outstanding candidates who do not meet all of the eligibility criteria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specifics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Awards range from $100 &#8211; $500.<br \/>\nMore than one award may be granted in a year.<br \/>\nAwards Committee screens applications and recommends candidate(s) to the Advisory Council of MLGSCA which has authority to grant the award(s).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Print out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mlgsca.mlanet.org\/beta\/images\/professional_development_award.pdf\">application form<\/a>and complete it.<br \/>\n(A paper copy of the form is printed in the MLGSCA Directory)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mlgsca.mlanet.org\/forms\/profdev_Word.docx\">A MS Word version of the form\u00a0<\/a>can be filled out online and submitted as an attachment to the Committee Chair, Laura Stubblefield (see address on form).<\/li>\n<li>Forms are also available from the chair of the Awards Committee, or from the Secretary of MLGSCA.<\/li>\n<li>Deadlines: September 15th; February\u00a015th.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behave of the Awards Committee\u2026 &nbsp; DEADLINE: Quickly approaching \u2013 September 15th \u2013 Apply fast! &nbsp; Purpose: To support professional development activities including attendance at classes, conferences and meetings; To provide MLGSCA members with the opportunity to increase their competence in the theoretical, administrative and\/or technical aspects of librarianship. Eligibity: The applicant must: Be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114"}],"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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6115,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions\/6115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}