This page includes awards made during the current NNLM award period (May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2026).
For awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021) please visit Past Funded Projects.
To browse our open funding opportunities please visit Funding Opportunities.
| Project Title | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collection Equity Award | Holy Names University | At Holy Names University, 64% percent of the student population identify as people of color. The Paul J. Cushing Library is in the process of creating a new strategic plan that includes collection development goals specifically addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion. We know our current collection does not represent our student demographics and we want to improve and address this issue. A Collection Equity Award would support our work by providing additional funding to meet our new collection development goals. We currently have a running list of resources and materials that… | |||
| Collection Equity Award | Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center Library | We acknowledge that ORPARC’s physical library sits on the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands belonging to indigenous peoples since time immemorial, and that our library resources serve the entire state of Oregon | |||
| Collection Equity Award | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Public Health Library | The collection Equity Award will be used to purchase books, hardcopy and e-books to update the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LAC-DPH) Library collection that has not been done in over 7 years. The goal is to ensure programs and community organization events that are facilitated by DPH are reflective of voices of the communities served; thus, illuminating health issues that are prevalent and unique to underserved populations throughout Los Angeles County. | |||
| Collection Equity Award | Peabody Memorial Library | Purchase new books so that our patrons of all ages will have access to reliable and current biomedical, health, and public health information and data. | |||
| Collection Equity Award | University of California San Francisco | Building on our specialized history and expertise, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Library plans to use the NNLM Region 5 Collection Equity Award to acquire a collection of graphic novels about health topics, i.e., graphic medicine. As medical humanities and similar interdisciplinary studies have gained wider scholastic recognition, academic health sciences libraries have begun… |