SC/MLA Past Award Winners
SC/MLA Awards

T. Mark Hodges Services Award
2011 – Jan H. LaBeause, AHIP

Academic Librarian of the Year
2011 – [no award]
2010 – Rebecca N. Jerome
2009 – [no award]
2008 – Laura Cousineau
2007 – Nancy McKeehan
2006 – Jan LaBeause
2005 – Jie Li
2004 – Ada Seltzer
2003 – Rick Wallace
2002 – Elizabeth Connor
2001 – Judy Burnham
2000 – [no award]
1999 – T. Scott Plutchak

Hospital Librarian of the Year
2011 – Fay J. Towell
2010 – Brenda Curry-Wimberly
2009 – Marilyn Teolis
2008 – Elsa M. Lopez
2007 – Karen Roth
2006 – Thomas Hill
2005 – Mary Virginia Taylor
2004 – Addajane L. Wallace
2003 – Tracy Powell
2002 – Jan Orick
2001 – Sue Felber
2000 – Fay E. Evatt *
1999 – Dixie Williamson
1998 – Nedra Cook
1997 – Mary Fran Prottsman
1995 – Marilyn Barry
* denotes deceased

Martha Watkins Scholarship
2011 – Nedra J. Cook
2010 – Skye Bickett
2010 – Brenda Curry-Wimberly
2009 – Geneva Bush Staggs
2008 – Janet Bishoff
2008 –Tara Douglas-Williams
2007 – no award
2006 – no award
2005 – Jan Haley
2004 – [no award]
2003 – Susan Ebbinghouse
2003 – Thomas Hill
2000 – Melissa McKie
2000 – Jan Burns
2000 – Arlene Desselles
1999 – Mary Ann Camp
1999 – Tara Douglas-Williams

Honorary Membership - Southern Chapter
2011 – Suzetta Burrows
2011 – Lynn M. Fortney, FMLA
2010 – Mary Fielder
2009 – Jean Shipman
2009 – M. J. Toey
2008 – Linda Garr Markwell
2007 – Linda Flavin
2007 – Lyn Dennison
2007 – Pam Neumann
2007 – Eloise Foster
2007 – Nunzia Giuse
2007 – Lucretia McClure
2007 – Jocelyn Rankin *
2007 – Fred Roper
2007 – Pat Thibodeau
2006 – Nancy Clemmons
2006 – Marilee Creelan
2005 – Janet S. Fisher
2005 – Sarah H. Gable
2005 – Anna-Liisa Rosner
2004 – Ken Robichaux
2004 – Susan Selig *
2004 – Tom Basler
2004 – Henry Lemkau
2004 – Faith Meakin
2002 – Sharon Lee Cann
2002 – Fay E. Evatt *
2002 – Dixie Fulton Williamson
2000 – Carol Burns
2000 – Ada Seltzer
1999 – Anne K. Robichaux
1995 – T. Mark Hodges *
1993 – Ted Srygley
1993 – Martha Watkins *
1991 – Jess Martin
1988 – Marsha Davidoff
1988 – Irene Graham
1984 – Erdeal Moore *
1984 – Flora Wellington *
1984 – Martha Zachert
* denotes deceased

First Time Meeting Attendee Award

2011 – Susan M. DeBruin
2011 – Erin Thrift
2010 – Rebecca Harrington
2009 – Alisha Miles
2008 – Teresa Pacheco
2007 – Trey Lemley
2006 Mandy Bayer
2005 – Glendine Smith
2004 – Lauren M. Young
2003 – Michael Lindsay
2002 – Mary Gabriella Cassanova

Special Award 2003
Linda Flavin

Frank Bradway Rogers Award
Dr Joycelyn Rankin and Jean Williams Sayre for outstanding contribution in applied technology for the delivery of health sciences information.

Continuing Education Award
Judy Burnham

Best Research Paper 1996
Carol Burns

MLA Awards

MLA Annual Conference, Honolulu – Hawaii
  • EBSCO/MLA Annual Meeting Grants
    Trey Lemley
  • MLA Fellows
    Jean Pugh Shipman
    M.J. Tooey
MLA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL – 2008
  • Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship
    Jan Orick
  • Janet Doe Lectureship
    Thomas G. Basler
  • MLA Fellows
    Linda Garr Markwell
MLA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA – 2007
  • Estelle Brodman Award of Academic Medical Librarian of the Year
    Jan LaBeause
  • Janet Doe Lectureship
    Henry L Lemkau
  • Murray Gottlieb Prize
    Elizabeth Connor
  • T. Mark Hodges International Service Award
    T. Mark Hodges (posthumously)
  • President's Award
    Beth Wescott
  • MLA Fellows
    Nancy Clemmons
    Patricia Thibodeau
MLA Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ – 2006
  • Ida and George Eliot Prize
    Jean Shipman
  • President's Award
    Janice Kelly
  • MLA Fellows
    Janet Fisher
    Nunzia Bettinosoli
MLA Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX – 2005
  • Estelle Brodman Award of Academic Medical Librarian of the Year
    Michele Tennant
  • Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship
    Mary Fran Prottsman
  • Janet Doe Lectureship
    Fred W Roper
  • Ida and George Eliot Prize
    Pamela Sherwill-Navarro
  • President's Award
    Patricia L Thibodeau
MLA Annual Conference, Washington , DC – 2004
  • Janet Doe Lectureship for 2005
    Fred W. Roper
  • Marcia C. Noyes Award
    Nancy M. Lorenzi, Ph.D.
MLA Annual Conference, Dallas , TX – 2002
  • Estelle Brodman Award of Academic Medical Librarian of the Year
    Judith F. Burnham
MLA Annual Conference, Orlando , FL – 2001
  • Estelle Brodman Award of Academic Medical Librarian of the Year
    T. Scott Plutchak
  • Majors/MLA Chapter Project of the Year
    Southern Chapter
MLA Annual Conference, Vancouver, B.C. – 2000
  • Ida and George Eliot Prize
    Carol Burns, Cheryl Rae Dee and Joycelyn Rankin for paper, "Using Scientific Evidence to Improve Hospital Library Services: Southern Chapter/ MLA Journal Usage Study – 2000.
  • Presidents Award
    Fred W. Roper – 2000 (In recognition for his leadership and contributions to the projesional development programs of MLA.)
MLA Annual Conference, Chicago 1999
  • Ida and George Eliot Prize
    Judith Burnham et al. "Mapping the literature of Allied Health." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1997 July: 85(3):269-302).
  • Marcia C. Noyes Award
    T. Mark Hodges – 1999
MLA Annual Conference, Philadelphia , PA – 1998
  • Majors/MLA Chapter Project of the Year
    Southern Chapter

  • Marcia C. Noyes Award
    Fred W. Roper, Ph.D.

MLA Annual Conference, Seattle , WA – 1997

  • Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship
    Cheryl R. Dee, Ph.D.
  • Janet Doe Lectureship
    T. Mark Hodges (“Musings on Our Meetings: MLA Conventions, ‘Ninety-Eight to Date”)

MLA Annual Conference, Kansas City , MO – 1996

  • Majors/MLA Chapter Project of the Year
    Southern Chapter

  • President's Award
    Christiane J. Jones (For her work in fostering understanding within MLA, within the JCAHO and within the broader healthcare community—of the hospital librarian's role in the Joint Commission's standards for information management.)

MLA Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. – 1992

  • Ida and George Eliot Prize
    Frances Lynch and Mary Charles Lasater for paper "Government Documents and the Online Catalog.". Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1990.
  • Thomson Scientific/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award
    Jocelyn A. Rankin, Ph.D. and Jean Williams Sayre (for outstanding contribution in applied technology for the delivery of health sciences information)

MLA Annual Conference, San Francisco – 1991

  • Research, Development and Demonstration Grant
    Bobbie Carlson
    Bob Poyer
  • Murray Gottlieb Prize
    Mary McCarl
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