Paper presentations

The MLES annually sponsors a contributed papers session at each MLA Conference to highlight scholarly work by current LIS graduate students, recent graduates of LIS master's and doctoral programs, and/or individuals currently participating in postgraduate training programs in LIS, medical informatics, or other related fields. The topics are not specified, but should concern some aspect of medical librarianship, medical informatics, information in health care, or professional issues of interest to the MLES.

Individual students, doctoral candidates, trainees and fellows are asked to submit their work for a juried, blinded, evaluation by a committee of MLES members, with between five and seven papers being chosen for presentation at the national MLA meeting. Multi-authored papers are welcome, but the first author must be a student, recent graduate, or trainee/fellow. Details are available each year on this MLES website; a deadline of December 1st for submission is set each year, and there is usually a modest stipend available to assist the presenters with their travel costs.