Past Funded Projects

Key to well-being and health is access to authoritative and comprehensible health information. Our aim in this project is to raise awareness of resources from the National Library of Medicine especially Medline Plus that target consumers and provide a wealth of health information.

The Health Sciences Library at Baptist College of Health Sciences in Memphis, TN seeks to foster a dynamic learning environment for enrolled students by creating and developing a makerspace. In the makerspace students will be able to create and design devices or solutions that can improve the Baptist patient experience.

GA-PCOM opened in 2005 with only one program Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine [DO], 75 students, and eight faculty. The Information Commons, which houses the library, computer labs, and study space, had two employees, a library manager and a library assistant. Eleven years later, the number of programs has increased to four DO, Doctor of Pharmacy [PharmD], Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences [MS], and Physician Assistant Program [PA]; a Physical Therapy PT program is planned to begin in approximately two years.

Mobile Connections for Health MCH is a health information outreach and training project aimed at increasing 131s - specifically Community Health Workers CHWs and Health 12s, access and use ofNational Library of Medicine's NLM online health information resources. The goal of the project is to improve the availability and quality of health information services delivered by 131s through outreach, education, and support.

Mobile Systems Education and Resources for Consumer Health MSEARCH 2 is an electronic skill-building program focused on educating 89 in Harris County how to navigate National Library of Medicine NLM health information resources using mobile device technology. The program will address the information-seeking needs of 89 while providing ready access to NLM e-health information resources. This program is an expansion of the MSEARCH program that was developed and successfully implemented by the Greater Houston Area Health Education Center GHAHEC at four community centers last year.

The CMSRU Library supports the medical education needs of a new and growing medical school, the high-level clinical needs of our associated academic medical center, Cooper University Hospital, and the needs of the fifteen graduate medical education programs offered at Cooper. The library presently uses traditional technologies, such as email and website/Blackboard announcements to support the curriculum and provide outreach services.

The mission of Blessing Health Professions Library is to enhance learning, research, and patient care by effectively managing knowledge-based resources for the 21st century. This mission is accomplished with respect for our patrons through dedication to excellence, creative service approaches, and by providing a doorway to information access through new technology initiatives. This application encompasses two areas of our mission: creative service approaches and information access through technology initiatives.

The NN/LM SCR is partnering with the South Central Academic Medical Libraries Consortium SCAMeL to offer the Emerging Leaders Award. The purpose of this award is to motivate and prepare a junior librarian 2-5 years of experience for a position of leadership in an academic health sciences library. The award will pair a librarian with a SCAMeL academic health sciences library director who will serve as his or her mentor. The SCAMeL volunteer mentor will introduce the award recipient to the financial and administrative roles and responsibilities of a health sciences library director.

It is particularly important that innovative learning modalities are utilized to augment our University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine UNECOM medical students' learning about empathy in relation to older adult health care. Currently those age 65 years and older use more than 50% of health care resources. As the older population increases and lives longer, their health care utilization is predicted to increase dramatically, therefore placing an obligation on our 126s to work with older 88 within primary care as well as any medical specialty.

The Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine OUWB will collaborate with the HOPE Hospitality & Warming Center in Pontiac, Michigan to empower discharged homeless patients in its Recuperative Care Center with better health information seeking and literacy skills.

The project that we want to do is teaching Participants how to use the Internet/Computer to find reliable health information online using the MedlinePlus.gov and NN/LM SE/A websites. We want to pair Senior Citizens with 87 so that the 87 could teach the Senior Citizen how to use the different types of technology laptop, iPads, tablets, cellphones, etc. to find reliable health information using the Internet. We plan to reach as many Participants in our Community as possible because they don't have access to the internet nor do they know how to use the different types of technology.

The goal of PATHS Patient/Parent Access To Health Sources LEADING TO IMPROVED HEALTH OUTCOMES, is to provide patients, parents/family members of those newly diagnosed with pediatric cancer and other pediatric chronic illnesses at the University of South Alabama USA 86's and 92's Hospital a means of acquiring and using reputable health resources from the National Library of Medicine NLM during the educational processes upon diagnosis, treatment, supportive and survivorship stages of their illness.

To support the mission of the National Network for Libraries of Medicine, the Library will provide resources to the residents consumers with health information as outlined in Aim 10.

Exhibit at Louisiana Library Association 2017 Annual Conference