MLA Research Section Awards 2000

Congratulations to the winners! This year's Research Section awards are for papers and posters given at MLA 2000. The Awards Committee was composed of Gary Byrd and Ruth Fenske.

Best Research Paper Award Category

Best Research Paper Award
Are Dragons Really Free? A Comparative Study of the Costs of Online Journal Access
Frances L. Chen, head, Collection Development, Arizona Health Sciences Library, The University of Arizona-Tuscon; Judith L. Rieke, assistant director, Harley French Library, University of North Dakota-Grand Forks; and Paul Wrynn, head, Collection Development, Ehrman Medical Library, New York University Medical Center-New York
Best Research Paper Honorable Mention
Real-Time Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Searching Instruction: a Randomized Controlled Trial in the Neonatal ICU (NICU)
Doreen R. Bradley, public services librarian; Patricia W. Martin, head, Electronic Services; Gurpreet Kaur Rana; Taubman Medical Library; and Robert E. Schumacher, Department of Pediatrics; University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Best Research Poster Award Category

Best Research Poster Award
Representation and Uniqueness of Neonatology Acronyms in the UMLS
Ramak R. Amjad, post doctoral fellow; Timothy B. Patrick, assistant professor; Health Management and Informatics; MaryEllen Sievert, professor, School of Information Science and Learning Technologies; University of Missouri-Columbia; Beth G. Carlin, McGoogan Library of Medicine/NNLM, University of Nebraska Medical Center-Omaha; and John Pardalos, assistant professor, Child Health-Neonatology, University of Missouri-Columbia

Best Research Poster Honorable Mention
Reference Statistics: Rethinking Data Collection in the Electronic Age
Kathleen Bauer, informatics fellow; and Lynne Sette, senior librarian, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Best New Researcher Award Category

Best New Researcher Award
Comparing Credentialing Processes Across Professional Associations: a Benchmarking Study
Shelley A. McKibbon, reference librarian; and Martha C. Adamson, director, Libraries; Library, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center-Dallas

Best New Researcher Honorable Mention
The NLM and Alternative Medicine: the Long History of a Trend
Catherine Arnott Smith, NLM medical informatics trainee, Center for Biomedical Information and School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh

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