Past Funded Projects

During a 4- to 6-hour mini-academy lesson at the American University of Health Sciences AUHS, young people will learn about First Aid, CPR, blood pressure, and body mass index BMI. Participants will learn the fundamentals of behavior change and develop a personal project to address how they can become 'health advocates' in their own home and community. Participants will have the opportunity to show how information learned during the lesson could be used to reduce healthcare disparities in their community.

Janet Masud-Paul is requesting funding to attend the University of Pittsburgh's Systematic Review Workshop: the Nuts and Bolts for Librarians. I am attending this workshop to understand the underlying framework for systematic reviews and improve the Libraries' ability to collaborate with our College of Nursing and Health Professions faculty/students working through this process.

Funding will directly support honorariums and/or travel expenses of members of the leadership panel who will speak at the 2018 MAC Annual Meeting in Ocean City, MD.

To enable Southern Chapter/MLA to support and host multiple CE courses and offerings during the annual meeting in Orlando, FL, Oct. 25-28, 2018, for the benefit of members who register for the courses. The funding will help defray the expense of bringing in CE instructors and thus allow SC/MLA to lower the CE registration costs for attendees. These courses will also have MLA approved CE points offered for members to count toward AHIP certification.

To enable the Southern Chapter of MLA to support and host a speaker on diversity and inclusion. The Chapter has invited Derrick Jefferson of American University in Washington, D.C. to come speak on the last day of the conference - Sunday, October 28th, 2018. As noted in the 2018 Janet Doe lecture by Elaine Martin and in the Plenary Session #5 featuring former Surgeon General, Dr. Satcher, diversity and inclusion are important topics to libraries and librarians. Derrick Jefferson, MLIS, MFA, main research area is diversity and inclusion.

Gale Medical Library at Littleton Regional Healthcare in Littleton, New Hampshire, requests funds from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine-New England Region's Sub Award Request for Proposal to establish health sciences library services across a 4-hospital affiliation in 95, underserved Coos County in northern New Hampshire. Among the four North Country Healthcare hospitals the affiliation, Littleton Regional is the lone hospital with a full service health sciences library.

Access to reliable health information for vulnerable populations: Vulnerable populations often reflect diversity from a number of perspectives. Diversity is frequently defined by social and demographic characteristics such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. As PPL considers those segments of our patron and user base who are most vulnerable, we believe this initiative can serve the needs of Portland's teen population, homeless population, and the Immigrant/refugee segments of our community.

Funding will directly support honorariums and/or travel expenses of instructors who will teach MLA CE classes for the 2018 MAC Annual Meeting in Ocean City, MD.

To enable Southern Chapter/MLA to support and host a recommended and well recognized speaker on data management, Shirley Zhao, during the annual meeting in Orlando, FL Oct. 25-28,2018, for the benefit of all members of the Southern Chapter/MLA who are able to attend the regional conference. The funding will help defray the expense of bringing in Mrs. Zhao as well as covering her speaking fee.

To enable the Southern Chapter of MLA to support and host a speaker on diversity and inclusion. The Chapter has invited Derrick Jefferson of American University in Washington, D.C. to come speak on the last day of the conference - Sunday, October 28th, 2018. As noted in the 2018 Janet Doe lecture by Elaine Martin and in the Plenary Session #5 featuring former Surgeon General, Dr. Satcher, diversity and inclusion are important topics to libraries and librarians. Derrick Jefferson, MLIS, MFA, main research area is diversity and inclusion.

The 3rd National Joint Conference of Librarians of Color in 2018, 'Gathering all Peoples: Embracing Culture & Community' will take place September 26-30, 2018 at the Albuquerque Convention Center in New Mexico.

JCLC brings together a diverse group of librarians, library staff, library supporters, and community participants to explore issues of diversity in libraries and how they affect the ethnic communities who use our services.

This is the annual conference of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association. The keynote panel is ''Health Data in Research.' The CE courses are 'Advanced PubMed Techniques', 'Searching Effectively and Efficiently', 'Emerging Technologies for the Busy Librarian' and 'Statistics 101.' I am scheduled to give a lightening talk at this conference. I originally proposed a poster presentation but I offered to change to a lightning talk when I heard the conference organizers needed one more for the schedule.

PNC/MLA Annual Meeting 2018; October 14th-16th 2018 in Spokane, WA. The annual meeting of the regional MLA chapter is great opportunity for networking and knowledge exchange, with regional colleagues. Applicant's organization, Kaiser Permanente, is not currently funding travel for continuing education, so NNLM PNR funding would enable me to attend the conference, continuing education courses and participate in the poster presentation co-authored poster accepted to conference.