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NNLM-NER announces its awards available for the 2004-2005 contract year. As in previous years, awards are offered to network members in support of technology, outreach and professional development. This year awards are in the following categories:

Technology Awareness awards for assistance in sponsoring an all-day educational program with a health information theme.

Last year, the Northern New Hampshire AHEC office received an award to help sponsor a two-day symposium with the goal of spearheading telehealth initiatives in New Hampshire.

Internet Connectivity for member libraries looking to improve their connectivity and access to health information.

Electronic Document Delivery for technology improvements geared towards ILL related services

Under the Internet Connectivity and EDD categories, Last Year NNLM-NER awarded more than $30,000 to member libraries requesting assistance in upgrading their services.

Express Outreach...for smaller outreach projects, professional development, course development, Award limits, and instructions

Last year, awards were given to members in Rhode Island. Rhode Island's Future's Symposium sponsored Jane Fisher of New York Public Library's CHOICES: consumer health program.

More information can be found on the Funding Opportunities section of our Web site. If you are thinking about a project, please send me a note at javier.crespo@umassmed.edu, or call 508-856-2223.

Please join us in congratulating Jan Glover of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale on receiving the 2004 Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award from MLA. Here is a description of Jan's work:

Jan Glover along with Katy Nesbit (posthumously) won the 2004 Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award from the Medical Library Association.

This prestigious award recognizes Jan and Katy's valuable contributions in evaluating the impact of formal training on effective searching behaviors in students, as well as the high quality courses they co-developed and taught to their MLA colleagues, to faculty and students in their respective institutions, and to hundreds of members of the American College of Surgeons at the 86th and 87th Clinical Congresses. Their research on information-seeking skills of students and faculty has been used at both Yale and the University of Rochester to develop content-rich courses that receive high praise from attendees. Their work has been key in helping to persuade their institutions to offer a variety of library courses as part of the curriculum. Through publications, poster sessions and by teaching colleagues, their work has been shared across the medical library community.

Work on their longitudinal study has spanned several years. Jan coordinated an inter-rater reliability study for the grading instrument that Katy and she created. A MEDLINE search tactics survey sent to all academic medical centers was analyzed and presented at MLA. Jan and Katy jointly received the MLA Research Award in 2001 for "Can We Prove that Medical Students Can Be Taught to Search MEDLINE Effectively?" presented at the MLA Conference in Orlando. In 2002 they once again received the MLA Research Award for "What's the Score? Evaluating Students' MEDLINE Searches," presented at the 2002 MLA Conference in Dallas.

Jan is recognized as an expert in teaching information-seeking skills for evidence-based clinical practice. She participated in the New York Academy of Medicine's Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine course. Jan and Katy developed and taught a MLA CE course on this same topic. Jan, a strong proponent of librarian involvement in the world of evidence-based clinical practice, teaches courses for faculty and students at Yale and at the Connecticut Hospital Association for Connecticut medical librarians.

Jan is the Education Coordinator for the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and leads an ambitious program of class-coordinated instruction with high relevancy to curriculum needs for medicine, nursing, physician associates and the MMEP/Clinical Scholars programs. Jan is concerned with assessment of teaching effectiveness as well as building appropriate skills and information-seeking habits among current and future clinicians. She commands respect and support from the faculty in the School of Medicine for her instructional goals and curriculum development.

For those of us who know both Jan and Katy the Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award is richly deserved.