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
Outreach: Iowa Public Health Research Center at Allen College

Allen College, UnityPoint Health is a regionally-accredited, private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in Waterloo, Iowa. Built on a tradition of more than 90 years of excellence, Allen currently serves 625 students in seven health programsnursing, public health, radiography, sonography, medical laboratory science, medical imaging, and occupational therapyranging from associates to doctorates.

May 25, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Research Data: Research Data Management for Graduate Students in STEM

The Research Data Management Best Practice Implementation project supports the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM goal of building 'capacity in data management practices, services and tools to support FAIR data guiding principles 1'. This program will increase graduate student knowledge of data management best practices, promote student understanding of how data management integrates into their research work, and determine if these practices are adopted long term.

June 19, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Partner Outreach 2018-2021: Wayne State University, Vera P. Shiffman Medical Library 2019-2020

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

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Improving Health Awareness Through Access to Quality Health Information

This request seeks to fund the purchase and support of 20 iPads loaded with NLM consumer health information for 88 and 86. This proposed project is a partnership between the Charlevoix Public Library and the Munson Charlevoix Hospital Education Department. The iPads will be placed in the Library, the Hospital Wellness Workshop facility, in selected physicians' and school nurse offices and used in health clinics for 109s and community senior events. The Health Librarian will train the health professionals to use the iPads and review specific NLM databases.

May 4, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Outreach: Association for 95 and Small Libraries Preconference

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM, led by the Greater Midwest Regions GMR will partner with the Association of 95 and Small Libraries ARSL, to increase the knowledge and skills of small and 95 public library staff related to consumer health services. The partnership will increase awareness of and participation in RML health information programming and outreach by small and 95 public libraries nationwide. ARSL provides the premier conference experience for over 500 librarians from small and 95 communities each fall.

May 10, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Ni Mi Way

Ni Mi Way will be the outcome of a University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Campus UMMS Duluth and Bois Forte Band of Chippewa partnership, its conceptualization is a joint effort of the Project Director and a Bois Forte community leader who is a certified Assistive Technology Professional. She will provide assistive technology training and project guidance in this area.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Outreach: Improving Health Awareness Through Access to Quality Health Information

This request seeks to fund the purchase and support of 20 iPads loaded with NLM consumer health information for 88 and 86. This proposed project is a partnership between the Charlevoix Public Library and the Munson Charlevoix Hospital Education Department. The iPads will be placed in the Library, the Hospital Wellness Workshop facility, in selected physicians' and school nurse offices and used in health clinics for 109s and community senior events. The Health Librarian will train the health professionals to use the iPads and review specific NLM databases.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Ixodes Outreach Project: A Northern MN Community Education and Research Program

Lyme Disease LD is an emerging epidemic in the Upper Midwest. Early identification of LD symptoms is paramount to effective medical treatment; knowledge of symptoms, how LD spreads, and getting immediate medical treatment is the best prevention. This NLM proposal introduces the Ixodes Outreach Project IOP. IOPs goal is to promote awareness of health concerns associated with LD and tick-borne diseases in northeast Minnesotas isolated Arrowhead region. This will be accomplished through educational activities, a citizen-science program, and an undergraduate research experience.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Food Wisdom Repository: Information Resources for Native Nutritional Health

This project undertakes outreach activities to further development of, and facilitate access to, a public knowledge repository of information on Indigenous nutritional health. The Research for Indigenous Community Health RICH Center at the University of Minnesota is building a curated database of reliable information resources relevant to Native nutritional health, accessed via a public website.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Partner Outreach 2018-2021: University of Minnesota 2018-2019

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

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Prof Development: Health Sciences Librarians of Illinois 2018

HSLI wishes to offer several classes to attendees at the annual conference. The class list includes: Building Partnerships with Faculty, Clinicians, and other Stakeholders 4 MLA CE, presented by Gwen Wilson, MLS, AHIP, Health Informatics Coordinator/Librarian at Washburn University in Topeka, KS. This course is designed for those Interested in strategies on building partnerships that lead to collaborative projects. The class will discuss barriers to building partnerships and detailed plans to help overcome these obstacles.

September 1, 2018 - September 30, 2018
MLA - Research Program/Public Librarian Symposium

The Public Librarian Symposium at the Medical Library Association MLA offers a unique opportunity for public librarians to receive education about health information and provide an introduction to National Library of Medicine resources and the National Network of Libraries' of Medicine. The symposium overlaps with the last day and a half of MLA's annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, and can be followed by an optional half day education boot camp for the Consumer Health Information Specialization CHIS organized by the GMR.

November 1, 2017 - May 23, 2018
Outreach Library 2017-2018: The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library

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

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Outreach Award: Marijuana Prevention and Information Outreach

This grant will allow Lakeville Area Public School staff to work with Community Blueprint to form a youth action team, and develop an interactive and informative marijuana campaign. From the name and logo, to the tone and messaging, and to the in-school outreach activities, we'll include youth in the entire process of building a marijuana prevention campaign for Lakeville high school students.

September 6, 2017 - April 30, 2018
American Library Association - Disaster Abatement Project

The American Library Association ALA is leading a large response and recovery effort for libraries damaged by Hurricane Maria and Irma in the Caribbean, specifically in the Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands. Many libraries have been damaged beyond repair and need assistance to recover. ALA will work with the local library leaders in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to provide computers and other resources needed to restore access to communities in dire need of information on health and a multitude of other topics as they rebuild their lives.

December 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Outreach Award: Senior health outreach

The Outreach Services Department of the St. Charles Public Library will partner with Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University to develop and deliver presentations on healthcare and medical topics at senior facilities in the St. Charles, Illinois community. As members of the Library's Outreach Services Department, we visit nine senior facilities, three homecare facilities, and fifteen homebound patrons a month. Outreach Services also provides weekly, biweekly, and monthly programs at seven senior facilities, engaging over two hundred and fifty patrons per month.

October 16, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Outreach: Promoting Health Communities Partnership

The eight Regional Medical Libraries RMLs of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM will partner with the Public Library Association PLA, a division of the American Library Association ALA, to increase the knowledge and skills of public library staff related to consumer health services.

August 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Outreach: Latino health and well-being workshop series

In the interest of providing greater access to culturally competent and linguistically relevant health services to Minnesota's Latino communities, CLUES requests funding from the NNLM to support developing, planning, and piloting a new Health and Wellbeing workshop series. The workshops will take place in areas of Minnesota where large communities of Latinos live and work, including southern Minnesota in areas such as Mankato, Willmar, and Austin.

November 3, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Outreach Library 2017-2018: Southern Illinois University Medical School Library

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

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Public Library Outreach: Health Information Hub Chicago Public Library

The project proposed is a health information hub inside a regional Chicago Public Library currently undergoing extensive renovations in a disadvantaged community that suffers from a spate of health conditions. The library, one of only two regional libraries in the city is frequented by 25,000 patrons each month and the goal is to improve both community awareness and health literacy by making information more accessible and culturally relevant to a predominantly African-American community.

September 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Opioid e-Resource Database Development and Outreach

The Indiana Prevention Resource Center, part of the Department of Applied Health Science, School of Public Health, Indiana University-Bloomington, proposes to develop an e-resources database devoted solely to the topic of the current opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on Indiana, that will feature as subthemes from the homepage educational materials on how to judge the quality of health information resources and links to highlighted NLM materials.

August 8, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Public Library: Community Conversations with 89

With the continued aging of our population and the increase we see in senior centers being built in the area, Westchester Public Library plans a Community Connections with 89 program to engage discussion regarding Alzheimer's.

September 6, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Outreach Award: The Iowa Family Leadership Training Institute IFLTI

The Iowa Family Leadership Training Institute IFLTI is a four-session, in-person training designed to develop the leadership skills of emerging family leaders who are parents or primary caregivers of Iowa 86 and youth with special health care needs CYSHCN. The institute is sponsored by the Division of Child and Community Health, part of the University of Iowa Stead Family Department of Pediatrics. The Division also includes Child Health Specialty Clinics CHSC, Iowa's Maternal and Child Health Title V Program for CYSHCN.

October 4, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Outreach Library 2017-2018: Indiana University Ruth Lilly Medical Library

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

September 26, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Outreach: Improving Health Information Literacy and Access to 88tal Health Care

This project will improve health information literacy and access to mental health care by 1. Educating youth on how to access existing and new Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance DBSA youth mental health information posted on MedlinePlus, 2. Updating and translating into Spanish the existing DBSA youth mental health information that is posted on MedlinePlus and HealthReach, 3. Uploading new DBSA youth mental health information on MedlinePlus and HealthReach in both English and Spanish, 4.

May 15, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Tech Enhance: SIMobile for Augmented Reality Integrated Simulation Education

SIMobile will enable the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, College of Nursing and Health Sciences CONHS implement the Augmented Reality Integrated Simulation Education ARISE Project. The goal is to strengthen simulation instruction by increasing student engagement and access to biomedical resources through technology.

September 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Outreach Library 2017-2018: Medical College of Wisconsin

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

November 14, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Outreach Library 2017-2018: University of Wisconsin Ebling Library

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

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Outreach Library 2017-2018: University of Cincinnati Health Sciences Library

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May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Emerging Trends: Medical Data and Me Community Awareness Project

The project aims to increase the community's awareness of precision medicine. Over a three-year period, a series of informational programs will be implemented to introduce the fundamentals of precision medicine. The informational programs will discuss the connections between biology, health and lifestyle, the environment as well as, the collection and use of patients' health information on mobile devices.

November 8, 2017 - April 30, 2018
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