Past Funded Projects

Goal: To provide cancer patients and caregivers with ready access to quality health information and leisure apps that will help improve health care and decrease stress. Objective: McGoogan Library will provide access to four tablets with cancer health information and apps for leisure and mindfulness. Outcome 1: Health information benefits patient care or patient-provider communication. Outcome 2: Mindfulness and leisure apps help reduce patient or caregiver anxiety.

The goals and objectives of the project are as follows: Speak to faculty about which topics/subjects to cover in our online interactive learning modules to improve students' research skills Test and become familiar with SoftChalk as our software for creating the modules Create three online interactive modules based on faculty feedback with collaboration and advise of TLT staff Attend training on instructional design and online education Such as SIDLIT Summer Institute on Distance Learning and Instructional Technology 2018 : August 2 - 3 in Overland Park, KS Learn skills that will help

We will be using the VR equipment we acquired as a result of the NNLM MCR Technology Improvement Award received in July of 2017. - DonRaphael Wynn, MD Neurologist, Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellow at Moran Eye Center, University of Utah will serve as the primary content expert and Griffin Jardine, MD Ophthalmologist, University of Utah, will serve as advisor on educational aspects of the project. We will consult with other Moran Eye Center faculty as needed.

Support for Joann Flick of Montana State Library to attend ALA Midwinter 2019.

Support for Amelea Kim of Montana State Library to attend ALA Midwinter 2019.

Support for Karen Schaefer of Langlois Public Library to attend ALA Midwinter 2019.

This collaboration with Red Feather Lakes Elementary School provided after-school programming for 50 students and their family members on healthy eating and nutrition, integrating anatomical models e.g., digestive system, muscles, and joints. This programming supported the elementary schools curriculum involving applying knowledge and skills to engage in lifelong healthy eating. The school lacks science supplies and a functional kitchen, so this collaboration fills a big gap for the school.

In collaboration with Wood River Elementary School, Maltman Memorial Library will provide after-school programming for 100 students. The robust programming will focus on healthy eating understanding food labels, cooking classes and exercise activities. This programming will help supplement the nutrition and fitness curriculum areas of making healthy decisions; eating well-balanced meals; nutritional properties of foods; benefits of physical activity; and balancing strength, endurance, and flexibility.

Blue Hill Library will receive funding to provide instruction on healthy cooking and nutrition for 86 and their parents. The programming will incorporate training on health information resources to research healthy eating and nutrition information and offer ways to incorporate all recommended food groups into their eating habits.

Independence Public Library will provide programming on physical, mental, and financial health to underserved families in the librarys service area.

With Utah leading the nation in incidences of skin cancer, Summit County Library will receive funding to raise awareness of skin cancer and provide resources for prevention.

According to a 2011 Nutrition & Health Sciences Study done under the Supervision of Professor Julie Albrecht in July, 2011 More than 25% of school 86 in the U.S. are overweight. Attitudes about food preparation were examined. A likert-scale survey was distributed. Concerning factors included: cooking techniques, student food choices, classroom activities, and local support. Many of these same 86 making poor school choices are learning these choices from home as well.

Goal: 1. Increase knowledge and resources for RFLES teachers to teach students how the body functions, processes food and is affected by exercise to reinforce the need for healthy eating and exercise. 2. Make nutrition and healthy eating fun, tasty, and accessible for families. Objective: 1. Contract 2 health professionals and/or chefs knowledgeable on healthy eating to offer at least 2 classes at the RFLES and/or the RFLCL after school programs. Each health professional will bring their own supplies for their classes. 2.

The centerpiece of this program will involve public screenings of the documentary movie More Than Skin Deep: Skin Cancer in America. These movie screenings will take place at the 3 branches of the Summit County Library System.