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Avg. Amount Awarded
152
Days
November 15 2025
Application Deadline
N/A
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MLA Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship

Description

The purpose of the MLA Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship is to assist in the education and training of health science librarians from countries outside the United States and Canada. The first fellowship was awarded in 1972 at the annual conference in San Diego, CA. This program continues to train and motivate international librarians with the latest advances in the health information profession. The fellowship supports attendance at the MLA annual conference and observation and supervised work in one or more medical libraries in the United States and Canada. The fellowship also permits access to MLA-sponsored online Continuing Education courses for a one year period beginning January of the fellowship year. Applicants must have an undergraduate degree and/or a master's level library degree. The latter requirement may be waived. Applicants must be working or preparing to work in a health science library in their own country and be a citizen or permanent resident of a country other than the United States or Canada. The applicant is not required to be a member of MLA. Past recipients of the Cunningham Fellowship are ineligible. A video answering a few questions; and three letters of reference from responsible persons who are familiar with the applicant's qualifications, describing the applicant's professional and interpersonal skills, assessment of their sense of curiosity, and ability to live alone, function in a foreign setting, and adaptability to traveling in unfamiliar places are required. Please visit the scholarship's website or contact the Medical Library Association for more information.

Eligibility Requirements

  • CheckmarkCitizenship requirements: International
  • CheckmarkMust not be attending high school currently

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What you'll need:

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