The Hospital Library Section (HLS) is offering four travel grants of $500 each for MLA Hawaii.

Deadline is Feb 16th, 2009. Winners announced mid-March.

Criteria: Grant is to support HLS members traveling to the MLA annual meeting in Hawaii.

The grants will be awarded according to the most benefit to the section as well as need of the recipient.

A committee appointed by the chair, including the past-chair and two others will administer the grant program. The Travel Grant Committee members are not eligible to receive the grants. The travel grants will be announced as early as possible to allow time for making arrangements for traveling to the conference.

Judging Criteria:

Financial Need:
Already recieive total funding = 0 points
Receives partial funding up to $1000 = 1 point
Receives partial funding up to $750 = 2 points
Receives partial funding up to $500 = 3 points
Receives no funding from other sources = 4 points

Benefits of Conference Attendance to Section:
Poster presenter = 1 point
HLS officer or committee chair (except Chair and Chair-elect) = 2 points
Speaker at HLS sponsored session = 3 points
HLS Chair, Chair elect, other elected (voting ) members of the board = 4 points.

Those who apply will be awarded points based on both sets of criteria. An individual can accrue multiple points for the benefit to the section criteria. For example: a committee chair who is also a speaker at an HLS sponsored session would be awarded 5 points.

If/when objective points do not result in a conclusive winner, the the committee will use their best judgment.

HLS members applying for the grant should send an email to cboss[atsign]meridianhealth[dot]com identifying the applicable criteria and explanation. Requests can be submitted for financial need only, according to the above process, or a combination of points for financial and HLS contribution criteria.

For more information go to: http://www.hls.mlanet.org/HLStravelgrant09.doc

Labels: Annual Meeting, Hawaii, Hospital Libraries