Professional Development Award

Request for Proposals

The NN/LM Greater Midwest Region is pleased to announce the availability of a professional development award for individuals who work in GMR libraries that are full network members. Six (6) awards for up to $1,000 will be available during the 2008/2009 (May 2008-April 2009) contract year.

Purpose

The award is intended to enable individuals to expand their professional knowledge and experience to better manage their libraries and to provide improved health information access to health care professionals and consumers.

Requirements

Applicants must be employed at least 50% time in a Network health sciences library that is a Primary Access Library. This award is not available to individuals who work in Resource Libraries.
Applicants must be from a library that is a Full member of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region
Applicants must demonstrate how the professional development activity proposed is linked to a specific goal for the library.
Applicants may receive this award only once during the 2006-2011 contract period.

Some examples of these specific goals include the following:

Developing a Web page for the library
Setting up an intranet for the library and its parent institution
Developing a computer-assisted instructional package or other type of educational package to help end-users gain better access to health information resources
Developing a consumer-health service in the library
Learning project management skills
Selecting, managing and licensing electronic journals
Space planning
Developing user education programs or redesigning library services

Funds may be used for the following:

Attending a specific continuing education course or workshop
Attending a conference, e.g. Computers in Libraries or EDUCAUSE
Visiting other libraries or related institutions

Funding is NOT available for the following:

Personal memberships in organizations
Building library collections
Attending the Medical Library Association annual meeting or the regional MLA chapter meetings. However, funding may support attendance at workshops, institutes, and other special meetings held in conjunction with the MLA or chapter meetings.

Technical Submission Requirements

The respondent should complete the Professional Development Award Application online. Attachments, such as program descriptions and letters of support, may be sent by fax to 312-996-2226 or attached in an electronic format to an email sent to . Please make the name of your project the title of the email. You will receive immediate electronic acknowledgement that your application was received by the GMR.

Here is a list of previous Professional Development Award Recipients..

Evaluation Criteria

Proposals will be scored against the following criteria:

Applicant meets the qualifications outlined in the Requirements section
Appropriateness of class to areas of health science librarianship and health information access
Applicant demonstrates how the professional development activity is linked to a specific goal of the library
Likelihood that the selected professional development activity will achieve the desired outcome

Reporting Requirements

Awardees will be expected to submit a written report to GMR on how their goals were met and provide documentation for their expenses 30 days after the activity takes place. Details regarding the proper submission of these items will be provided in the acceptance letter. The individual also is encouraged to submit an article that describes the project to The Cornflower, the GMR blog.

Additional Requirements

If this project results in a manuscript that will be submitted for publication, project personnel must follow the requirements outlined in the NIH Public Access Policy ( http://publicaccess.nih.gov

) which mandates submission within 12 months of publication to the NIH manuscript submission (NIHMS) system (http://www.nihms.nih.gov

) at PubMed Central (PMC) the author's final manuscript, resulting from activities and/or research supported in whole or in part with direct costs from this award. NIH defines the author's final manuscript as the final version accepted for journal publication, and includes all modifications from the publishing peer review process. PMC is the NIH digital repository of full-text, peer-reviewed biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research journals. It is a publicly-accessible, permanent, and searchable electronic archive available on the Internet at http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

for use by the public, health care providers, educators, scientists and the NIH. Additional information is available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html

If a website is developed under this award, the website must adhere to Section 508 compliance. Resources for this compliance include the National Library of Medicine Web Applications/Site Development Guidelines: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/web/documentation/ , and Summary of Section 508 Standards: http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=11 .

The following statement should be used in all publications resulting from projects funded through the NN/LM contract:

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3503 with the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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