The Maryland and Delaware Library Associations offer this annual conference to bring together library staff and partners from Maryland and Delaware for professional development and networking opportunities. This year's theme is "Evolve." The conference will be held in Cambridge, Maryland May 2nd to Mary 4th, 2018.

Funding is requested for Jovy-Anne O'Grady to attend Digital Commons + Great Lakes User Group DC+GLUG 2018 Meeting. The conference will improve her ability to convince 1100 faculty members to deposit their author manuscripts into Touro Scholar; thereby, facilitating public access to health and medical research especially to those who cannot afford journal subscriptions.

Andrea Ketchum requested funds to attend Bibliometrics and Scientometrics for Research Evaluation by Leiden University's Centre for Science and Technology Studies.

While there have been extensive topics and resources presented at AAFCS conferences, funding opportunities and consumer health information resources, especially those from NNLM, have not been addressed in recent years. Presenting the results of the Laurel Public Library's Outreach to Consumers Award program will demonstrate an innovative, successful way to support individuals in where and how to find reliable health information, promote NNLM institutional membership and resources, funding opportunities, and consumer resources.

"Funding is requested to support travel to the National Association of School Nurses to support the dissemination of evidence-based information. "

The Systematic Review Workshop: the Nuts and Bolts for Librarians is a 2.5-day hands-on, in person workshop scheduled from July 17 to July 19, 2017 held at the University of Pittsburgh's Falk Library of the Health Sciences. The aim is to prepare health sciences librarians 'to become a systematic review team collaborator and a facilitator in the systematic review process.' Activities include a mixture of group discussion, interactive lectures, and hands-on exercises. Prior training or experience in systematic reviews is not required.

The North Dakota Library Association's Health Science Information Section HSIS will offer free training related to searching for evidence-based medicine. The training will be a one-day workshop version of the popular 'EBM and the Librarian' class taught by Connie Schardt. Attendees will be introduced to the basics of evidence-based medicine and will learn about the role that librarians can play in its practice and instruction.

The Kathleen A. Zar Symposium is a biennial event held at the John Crerar Library of the University of Chicago. The 2017 Zar Symposium, 'Open Data: Science, Health, Community,' is intended for all who are involved or interested in open data, such as librarians and 133s. This award will be used to support the travel of Symposium speakers, who are traveling from both coasts and the southwest.

If I am able to attend, the MLA Annual Meeting will be my first major professional Library event and will serve as a springboard for me to launch my career as a Health Sciences Librarian. This event will offer me to opportunity to begin engaging with a nationwide network of medical librarians, particularly through my participation in the Colleague Connection mentorship program and First-Time Attendees Program, as well as to meet some of the vendors with whom I will be working in my new position.

Funds from this award will be used to attend the Medical Library Association Conference in Seattle on May 26-31, 2017. A poster abstract I submitted was accepted and I would like to attend to present the poster. The poster represents a health and wellness community collaborative developed and implemented at the Munson Community Health Library in Traverse City, Michigan.

This professional development awards supports one health sciences librarian to attend the Midwest Chapter MLA/MHSLA Joint Annual Conference in Ypsilanti, MI, October 13-16, 2017.

Offer two continuing education courses 'Perspectives in Research Data Management' and 'Data Management for Librarians' at the Joint 2017 Midwest Medical Library Association and Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association Conference being held in October.

I am requesting this award to enable me to attend the October 2017 joint annual conference of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association MLA and the Michigan Health Sciences Library Association MHSLA in Ypsilanti, Michigan. see http://midwestmla.org/conference2017/. I hope to take advantage of one of the continuing education courses, but my primary reason for attending is to pay attention to the preparation, organization, and execution of the meeting itself.

Attend the SLA Pharmeceutical & Health Tech Spring Meeting

Attend the Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit

Attend ACRL conference

Attend the ALA Midwinter conference

Attend the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference

Attend ACRL conference

Attend ACRL conference

Attend an online Negotiation Skills for Librarians

Attend ACRL conference

Attend the OCLC Resource Sharing Conference

Attend the ACRL conference

"The HarvardX Data Science program prepares you with the necessary knowledge base and useful skills to tackle real-world data analysis challenges. The program covers concepts such as probability, inference, regression, and machine learning and helps you develop an essential skill set that includes R programming, data wrangling with dplyr, data visualization with ggplot2, file organization with Unix/Linux, version control with git and GitHub, and reproducible document preparation with RStudio."

HSLI wishes to offer several classes to attendees at the annual conference. The class list includes: Building Partnerships with Faculty, Clinicians, and other Stakeholders 4 MLA CE, presented by Gwen Wilson, MLS, AHIP, Health Informatics Coordinator/Librarian at Washburn University in Topeka, KS. This course is designed for those Interested in strategies on building partnerships that lead to collaborative projects. The class will discuss barriers to building partnerships and detailed plans to help overcome these obstacles.

We are requesting the Professional Development Award funding to allow us to offer two continuing education courses 'Perspectives in Research Data Management' and 'Data Management for Librarians' at the Joint 2017 Midwest Medical Library Association and Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association Conference being held in October 2017.

HSLI is requesting funding to provide an MLA-accredited CE workshop for the Health Sciences Librarians of Illinois Conference, on Oct 26, 201. Emerging Technologies for the Busy Librarian, 4 MLA CE, presented by Gabriel R. Rios, Director, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University, Indianapolis. This class is designed to give the busy librarian an overview of emerged and emerging technologies impacting or potentially impacting our profession. It is a survey course that will cover a variety of technology topics.

HSLI is requesting funding to provide an MLA-accredited CE workshop for the Health Sciences Librarians of Illinois Conference, on Oct 26, 201. Emerging Technologies for the Busy Librarian, 4 MLA CE, presented by Gabriel R. Rios, Director, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University, Indianapolis. This class is designed to give the busy librarian an overview of emerged and emerging technologies impacting or potentially impacting our profession. It is a survey course that will cover a variety of technology topics.

Prevention education of youth is a challenging field, with little evidence on effectiveness. The love of games on phones and iPads is evident in our current society. This application is in support of the development of an alcohol, tobacco and drug prevention game targeted at youth. It will be available for download through the iTunes App store. Other alcohol and drug prevention games are more straight education and scenario-based.