Past Funded Projects

This page includes awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021).

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Title Summary Project Period
CHIME: COVID-19 Health Informatics Module Development and Implementation Through Library

This project seeks to establish a multi-disciplinary effort dedicated to the practice of Health Informatics through the COVID-19 pandemic time, by development and implementation of current health delivery concepts and tools such as Infection Control and Vaccines. This aligns itself with NIH, NNLM and CDCs efforts to advance the highest quality of health information to the greatest benefit of society. Dentistry and other health professions are an information-intensive activity, and health informatics by its very nature supports such activities well.

December 11, 2020 - April 30, 2021
M-SEARCH BYOD Project Mobile Systems Education and Resources for Consumer Health Bring Your Own Device

The proposed initiative, MSEARCH BYOD, will provide trainings for patrons and staff members at three Baker-Ripley Neighbor Center senior locations. NNLM resources that will be used in the training are MedlinePlus.gov, The National Institute on Aging, and NIHs Go4Life websites. Participants will be asked to bring their personal smartphone or mobile tablet devices if available to the trainings. Participants who cannot bring a mobile device to the training will be provided a mobile tablet device for use during each class.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2021
Radical Self-Care and Wellness for Information Professionals

Audre Lorde states, Caring for myself is not self-indulgence; it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.1 For librarians of color, the stresses of working and existing in the predominantly white spaces of libraries and librarianship, can be both physically and mentally exhausting.2 Currently, librarians of color are experiencing the impact of stress from ongoing systematic racism against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stress from this global pandemic is disproportionately impacting communities of color in the United States.

October 12, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Open Educational Resources for Allied Health Professions and Health Sciences

The proposed project is intended to support the sustainable creation, adaptation, and use of Open Educational Resources OER in allied health professions and health sciences fields at large. Our faculty fellowship is designed to include training in relevant health sciences resources from the NNLM, training in OER authorship and use, and support in using the resources from the NNLM to create OER.

June 11, 2020 - April 30, 2021
BGHF Minds Matter - Houston

Black Girl Health Foundations Minds Matter Houston is a program in partnership with community libraries that are designed to reach out to 92 of color in the Houston DMA area and educate them about mental health and mental health resources. In the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic; a lack of certainty about the end or extension of quarantining, social distancing requirements, and civil unrest; offering digital mental health literacy couldnt be timelier and more crucial.

December 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Strengthening Family Caregivers COVID Information for People with Disabilities

Achieva, an 94ly recognized provider and innovator of programs and supports for people with disabilities and families will address the impact that COVID -19 is having on family caregivers, such as social isolation, fear of illness and hospitalization and constant worry about the future and who would care for their family member should they become incapacitated or die. Today, about 53 million Americans are providing unpaid care for an adult or child with special needs yet they are often overlooked by the medical community, employers, policy makers and other family members.

January 25, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Planning Grant for the Utah Health Literacy Coalition

This project supports the further development of the Utah Health Literacy Coalition in its mission to improve access to health information, especially for underserved communities, in Utah. It will do so by convening a group of selected subject matter experts and stakeholders to participate in a professionally facilitated planning workshop to establish short, medium, and long-term goals. The primary product of the workshop will be a strategic plan to guide the furtherance and sustainability of the organization.

October 24, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Continuing education to Nurses in Northern Nevada; Promoting NLM and other freely available quality online resources

This project has been funded to support nurses in Washoe County by providing continuing education classes. This instruction will focus on freely available health information resources and will promote the use of National Library of Medicine NLM resources, as well as other authoritative resources. Courses will be developed for both online self-paced, asynchronous and in-person instruction, and both formats will provide CE credits to nurses.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Virtual Health Education Tour 2020-2021

HAMA will be conducting its 3rd Health Education Tour from August 2020 October 2020. The utility of this project stems from the need for more strategic and culturally specific delivery of health information to underserved communities. Last year, HAMA conducted this project for the second consecutive year. Based on the success of the project and needs assessment obtained through surveys we have decided to repeat this project with the option of in-person or virtual health education sessions.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Partner Library: J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library 2016-2021

The Partner Library will coordinate the Library Engagement project area. The Partner Library will develop and coordinate a program that supports the following outcomes: - The reach of the NN/LM MCR is extended as a result of the work with organizations and Network members. - Participants in NN/LM MCR programs are aware of appropriate resources and/or have the skills to use them. - Healthcare providers and the public engaged with NN/LM MCR experience significant increase to health information access.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
Promoting Mammograms for LGBT Community Members in Pennsylvania Through Public Library Outreach

Surveys consistently show that rates of mammography are significantly lower among lesbian and bisexual people than their heterosexual counterparts, according to the National LGBT Cancer Network.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Health Information Partnerships for Brooklyn

Brooklyn Public Library BPL will develop and implement a 5-month project of expert-led health information programs targeted to vulnerable populations with identified health challenges. Addressing known social determinants of health specific to Brooklyns varied communities, the programs will address the topic areas of: 88tal Health, 102, Health Insurance and Access to Care Navigation, Nutrition, and Positive Aging.

December 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Partner Outreach: Ohio State University Health Sciences Library 2020-2021

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM/NNLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Community Health Literacy Training

For this award of $25,000 P. I. Advocates 94, Inc. PIA will teach and/or improve peoples computer skills in accessing high quality web-based health information and simultaneously improve their understanding of health literacy and the importance for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. We will delegate full attention to training as many people as possible doing the period of this contract which is from January 2021 to April 31 2021. PIA is introducing this project as community level health literacy training.

January 18, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Mobile Hotspots for Circulation

Through this proposed project, the Nevada County Community Library will purchase 47 mobile hotspots and lend them to library cardholders for at-home use. Borrowers will also receive information about authoritative online health resources, such as PubMed, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, free NNLM online classes, the Research Program and Nevada Countys Public Health website.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Partner Library: Creighton University Health Sciences Library 2016-2021

The Partner Library will coordinate the Education project area. The Partner Library will develop and coordinate a program that supports the following outcomes: - The reach of the NN/LM MCR is extended as a result of the work with organizations and Network members. - Participants in NN/LM MCR programs are aware of appropriate resources and/or have the skills to use them. - Healthcare providers and the public engaged with NN/LM MCR experience significant increase to health information access. - Underserved populations in the NN/LM MCR, who are ready, benefit from NN/LM MCR programs.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
Partner Library: A. R. Dykes Library 2016-2021

The Partner Library will coordinate the Technology project area. The Partner Library will develop and coordinate a program that supports the following outcomes: - The reach of the NN/LM MCR is extended as a result of the work with organizations and Network members. - Participants in NN/LM MCR programs are aware of appropriate resources and/or have the skills to use them. - Healthcare providers and the public engaged with NN/LM MCR experience significant increase to health information access.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
Graphic Medicine Liaison Program Development

While need for easily accessible entry-points to graphic medicine for all of our stakeholders has long been recognized, work toward the proposed liaison project began in earnest during the 2018 Graphic Medicine Conference held in White River Junction, VT sponsored in part by NNLM NER. Discussing his work as a Cartooning Chaplain, Kurt Shaffert expressed difficulty in engaging the larger chaplain community with graphic medicine and that an elevator pitch of sorts would help.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Food Literacy at the Worcester Public Library through Nutrition Education and Healthy Cooking Classes

The Worcester Public Library WPL seeks to educate adult patrons on food choices for healthy living. The Worcester area has a high rate of nutritionally underserved residents who suffer from medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension. This grant would offer nutrition education and healthy cooking classes to WPL patrons, including 89, those affected by homelessness, and low-income residents, to provide them with tools to learn how to plan, manage, select, and prepare healthy food.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Moving with Awareness for Better Balance and Fitness

The Library will offer a series of weekly online movement classes for 88 that emphasize the role of the brain in improving balance and strength. Theseclasses will incorporate principles from the Feldenkrais Method of Awareness through Movement, an established form of neuromuscular reeducation that utilizes the brains ability to form new neural pathways at any age.

December 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Development and Evaluation of a Technology Education for Community and Home TECH Program for Older 88 and Their Family Members and Caregivers to Support Independence

This project is designed to fuse information available on a wide range of health and daily living topics found in MedlinePlus https://medlineplus.gov/all_healthtopics.html with 21st century technology skills that often are lacking in older aged 65 years. Through the creation of relevant and approachable topic e.g.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Helping Empower Adolescents Learning Through Health HEALTH Info

Helping Empower Adolescents Learning Through Health HEALTH Info aims to provide local high school students with the knowledge and skills necessary to empower others within their school and community to address health disparities. High school students from underrepresented populations going into their junior or senior year will be recruited from public and charter high schools across Philadelphia. This program will utilize the Project SHARE curriculum, which was developed by the University of Maryland.

May 15, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Using Little Free Libraries to Improve Access to Health Information

In North Carolina, residents of both 98 and 95 areas live in underserved communities with limited access to medical care and information, healthy food retail, and other resources that make individuals healthy and communities vital. To compound these issues, there is limited access to broadband in many of our 95 areas.

January 18, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Salud! Here's to Your Health!

The mission of Jackson County Library Services is to connect everyone to information, ideas, and each other. To support our mission and that of NNLM, JCLS will present two health literacy programs; one in English for general audiences, and one in Spanish for the 7.9% of Jackson County households who speak Spanish. A panel of bilingual health care and library professionals will speak on the topics of COVID-19, locating quality health information online, talking to your doctor, and understanding your prescription.

December 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Partner Outreach: University of Cincinnati 2020-2021

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM/NNLM resources and services on behalf of the GMR.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Partner Outreach: Indiana University School of Medicine - Ruth Lilly Medical Library 2020-2021

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM/NNLM resources and services on behalf of the GMR.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Partner Outreach: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Library 2020-2021

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM/NNLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
The San Francisco Bay Areas Response to the AIDS Epidemic: Digitizing and Providing Universal Access to Historical AIDS Records

The Archives and Special Collections Archives department of the University of California, San Francisco UCSF Library, seeks a support from the NNLM to digitize approximately 43,000-45,000 pages from 15 archival collections related to the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the San Francisco Bay Area and make them widely accessible to the public on the Internet. This new digital collection will address the gaps that exist in relation to materials chronicling the experience and struggles of communities of color and marginalized communities in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Employing Community Wellness Liaisons to Create Public Libraries That are Inclusive for Five Diverse Utah Communities

This project has been designed by the Community Faces of Utah CFU, a collaborative group established in 2009.

October 23, 2019 - April 30, 2021
Partner Outreach: University of Wisconsin-Madison 2020-2021

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM/NNLM services and resources on behalf of the GMR.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
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