Past Funded Projects

The Penn State Hazleton Library and Department of Biology propose to utilize Virtual Reality VR Anatomy hardware and software in undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology education. This project will provide students with access to innovative technology enhancing their learning experiences. VR hardware and 3D VR anatomy software will be made available to health sciences students enrolled in anatomy and physiology courses.

Professional development to attend Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections on Health Equity at the ALA Midwinter conference in Seattle, WA, January 2019.

The Comics and Medicine 2018 Conference seeks to engage health providers, health information professionals, artists, academics and members of the local community in the use of comics as a resource to provide accessible health information and communicate health-related experiences. This year's conference theme is 'The Ways We Work' and will offer panel discussions and oral presentations on the ways that graphic medicine is being practiced by teachers, librarians, healthcare professionals and artists.

This project will provide a staff development day at the Bangor, ME Public Library to focus on improving service to patrons dealing with poverty, housing insecurity, and mental illnesses such as addiction. Working with these populations requires a set of interpersonal communication techniques that may differ in some ways from the techniques used by staff when dealing with other populations. Interpersonal communication strategies that staff can quickly use to avoid escalating or begin de-escalating situations will be developed.

In the past year I have become intensely interested in the role of libraries in strengthening the health literacy of the communities we serve. After attending the "Stand Up for Health" preconference program at the 2018 PLA Conference, I came away with a desire to help increase my efforts in promoting health literacy to the staff of the 48 public libraries I work with in the Southern Tier of NY State.

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center- Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library will provide program support and training to SCR partners IHIP Partners and ABQ & NOLA Health 12s and public library staff. Services offered will include training SCR partners on health information courses designed for public library staff and patrons, promoting the CHIS certification program, collaborating with SCR partners on health program ideas, and assisting SCR partners with public library meetings/ in-service training.

This project will create a training manual and materials, in partnership with NNLM NER and incorporating NLM resources, that can be used with providers and other stakeholders who potentially may interact with victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking.

This proposal will interview community agencies within Dallas County to survey their understanding of opioid use, access to services, access to healthcare information, and unmet needs of the populations they serve. The community assessment will also include a survey of healthcare services provided in the identified communities and determine their knowledge and use of NLM information.

This project will raise awareness of the NIH AoU program, to promote using and promote MEDLINEplus.gov particularly among the limited literacy population. It will provide health professional trainings PubMed at North Country Healthcare locations in Lancaster, Berlin, and Colebrook, and provide educational sessions and distribute information about MEDLINEplus and Research Program at public libraries.

A health 12 will be hired by ABQ to exclusively provide program support, extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the program, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and offer health information education to the Albuquerque Public Library community. The health 12 will be physically located within the ABQ Public Library and receive program assignments from the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator. Projects will be assigned by the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator with discrete timelines and deliverables denoted for each task.

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Library- New Orleans will partner with the public libraries in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.

The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center- Shreveport Libraries will partner with the public libraries in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.

A health 12 will be hired by NOLA to exclusively provide program support, extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the program, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and offer health information education to the New Orleans Public Library community. The health 12 will be physically located within the NOLA Public Library and receive program assignments from the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator. Projects will be assigned by the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator with discrete timelines and deliverables denoted for each task.

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Medical Library will partner with the public libraries in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.