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
National Public Health Coordination Office

As the National Public Health Coordination Office, project staff manage access working with vendors to make information available to public health offices. The Coordination Office establishes a fee structure, supports continuous access, and provides distance-based training and education to users. Office staff works with public health departments to establish electronic access and extend information resources with partnering health sciences libraries in proximity to the public health department.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern/Atlantic Region 2016-2021

The goal of the NN/LM is to advance the progress of medicine and improve public health by providing U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and improving individual's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Southwest Region 2016-2021

The mission of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NN/LM is to advance the progress of medicine and improve the public health by 1 providing all U.S health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and 2 improving health access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. The Program is coordinated by the National Library of Medicine and carried out through a nationwide network of health science libraries and information centers.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region 2016-2021

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May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
National Network of Libraries of Medicine Evaluation Office 2016-2021

The NEO will support evaluation activities related to the three NNLM cores. In addition, the NEO will collaborate with the RMLs to build evaluation skill and capacity among Network members. The specific aims of the NEO are the following: 1. Support the National Network Steering Committee's ability to make data-driven decisions about the direction of the NNLM program. 2. Collaborate with RML staff members to enhance their use of evaluation for their own programs and promote evaluation among Network members.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
National Network of Libraries of Medicine DOCLINE Coordination Office NDCO 2016-2021

The NN/LM Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Plan the Plan is fundamental to NLM's document delivery system and provides a foundation upon which the NDCO will deliver service and evaluation. The NDCO will implement the Plan with the cooperation of the RMLs, fulfilling its objectives and ensuring that all partners NLM, the NDCO, the RMLs, Resource Libraries, and all DOCLINE participants are aware of their responsibilities as outlined in the Plan and are capable of fulfilling them. NDCO will use these responsibilities as a rubric upon which to base evaluation of service.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
Narrowing the Health Gap in Cincinnati

Despite improvements in medical care and efforts to make healthcare more affordable for all Americans, many still experience significant heath disparities that result in poor health outcomes. Racial and ethnic minorities, those in 95 and/or 98 areas, and those living in medically underserved areas have a high risk for experiencing health related disparities. Access to authoritative health information is vital to ensuring that individuals make appropriate health decisions and reduce their risk of experiencing poor health outcomes.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Multicultural Conversations About the End of Life

High-quality end of life care should be available to all individuals in a timely manner, and in alignment with their values, wishes, and goals. Unfortunately, the reality of end of life care in the United States is quite different, with the healthcare system often failing to meet the needs of certain communities. One particular community, immigrant families, encounter particular disparities in quality of, and access to, end of life care.

November 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Multi-year Consortial Award: Knowledge is Health: Interprofessional Partnerships to Promote Health Literacy Y3

The central objective of this project is the improvement of health literacy in underserved patient populations in Oregon through a the education of health professions students, providers, and interprofessional faculty and b the integration of appropriate information resources and communication practices into patient care. The underlying assumptions of this objective are that positive patient health outcomes will result from improved health literacywhich will result from improved provider competencies.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Multi-year Consortial Award: Knowledge is Health: Interprofessional Partnerships to Promote Health Literacy

The central objective of this project is the improvement of health literacy in underserved patient populations in Oregon through a the education of health professions students, providers, and interprofessional faculty and b the integration of appropriate information resources and communication practices into patient care. The underlying assumptions of this objective are that positive patient health outcomes will result from improved health literacywhich will result from improved provider competencies.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2021
Multi-year Consortial Award: Information Resources for Alaska's Healthcare Providers and Public Libraries: Outreach in the Last Frontier

The primary goal of the project is to improve the quality of life and health for citizens of Alaska by providing information outreach services to the healthcare workforce, especially in 95 areas, over a five-year period from May 2016 through April 2021. Additionally, Alaska Medical Library AML at University of Alaska Anchorage hopes to expand outreach to include public schools and public libraries to teach and promote health literacy in the communities we visit.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2021
Multi-year Consortial Award: Health Professions Outreach in Eastern Washington

The purpose of this project, as originally proposed, is to advance health literacy capacity and to improve clinical information discovery skills of health professionals in Eastern Washington. The targeted health professionals work in clinics, in long-term care facilities, and in schools in Eastern Washington.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2020
MSEARCH Mobile Systems Education and Resources for Consumer Health 2

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.

October 1, 2016 - April 30, 2017
Moving with Awareness for Better Balance and Fitness

The Library will offer a series of weekly online movement classes for 88 that emphasize the role of the brain in improving balance and strength. Theseclasses will incorporate principles from the Feldenkrais Method of Awareness through Movement, an established form of neuromuscular reeducation that utilizes the brains ability to form new neural pathways at any age.

December 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
MOVING Beyond COVID-19: Helping Consumers Move toward Emotional Wellness through Accessible Online Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted emotional wellness in many ways. A team of health 12s and plain language writers seek to address emotional wellness needs exacerbated by COVID-19 by adapting, developing, and promoting accessible authoritative consumer health resources. The team will adapt the English language How to M.O.V.E. toward Emotional Wellness print booklet into an interactive, web-based tutorial to provide an ongoing source of emotional wellness learning and support and link learners to additional topical NLM/NIH/CDC resources.

November 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Mount Saint Mary's University 'Mount Wellness' Training Project December 2017-April 2018

Mount Saint Mary's University MSMU launched a comprehensive wellness movement, 'Mount Wellness,' in 2017 to help its community become, and remain, healthier. The MSMU library system will create a program affiliated with Mount Wellness that introduces MSMU students and staff to National Library of Medicine NLM resources, with a focus on MedlinePlus.

December 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Mother Goose on the Loose - Goslings

The Mother Goose on the LooseGoslings program Goslings was developed to address the need for early language and literacy intervention for medically complex infants and the need for additional parental support in the neonatal intensive care unit NICU.1 The program has two primary goals: 1 provide parents with the knowledge, skills and tools to promote early language and literacy through talking, reading, singing and reciting nursery rhymes to their infants; and 2 emphasize the bidirectionality of parentinfant communication by informing parents how to interpret and sensitively respond to infa

January 13, 2020 - April 30, 2020
Mobility for All: Effingham Public Library

Effingham Public Library proposes to partner with the National Library of Medicine to provide Mobility for All a monthly chair yoga training that will provide strengthening exercises that anyone can do as well as free resources from the National Library of Medicine like Exercise & Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide from the National Institute on Aging, Getting Fit for Life and Go 4 Life Tip Sheets.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Mobile Systems Education and Resources for Consumer Health MSEARCH 2018

Mobile Systems Education and Resources for Consumer Health MSEARCH 2018 is an electronic skill building program focused on educating 89 in Harris County on how to navigate National Libraries 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 online information resources.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Mobile Systems Education and Resources for Consumer Health MSEARCH 2018

Mobile Systems Education and Resources for Consumer Health MSEARCH 2018 is an electronic skill building program focused on educating 89' in Harris County on how to navigate National Libraries 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 online information resources.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Mobile Hotspots for stable Internet access Pilot

In the age of COVID-19, many PCOM students have had sudden lifestyle adjustments. For example, students' planned living arrangements have been disrupted, some resulting in reduced income sources, which affects the acquisition of basic necessities such as food, a stable Internet source, housing, and transportation. These disruptions contribute to heightened stress levels that ultimately affect students' learning.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Mobile Hotspots for Circulation

Through this proposed project, the Nevada County Community Library will purchase 47 mobile hotspots and lend them to library cardholders for at-home use. Borrowers will also receive information about authoritative online health resources, such as PubMed, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, free NNLM online classes, the Research Program and Nevada Countys Public Health website.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Mobile Health Literacy Outreach Program

This project will offer mobile health literacy training to library staff and the public throughout the five county 95 area of Western New York State that experiences significant health and economic disparities. The Sourthern Tier Library System serves 48 public libraries, their staff, and trustees. Our library consultants provide professional development opportunities, training, and resources to enable libraries to better serve their communities.

May 5, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Mobile Health Literacy Outreach Program

This project will offer mobile health literacy training to library staff and the public throughout the five county 95 area of Western New York State that experiences significant health and economic disparities. The Sourthern Tier Library System serves 48 public libraries, their staff, and trustees. Our library consultants provide professional development opportunities, training, and resources to enable libraries to better serve their communities.

May 15, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Mobile Connections for Health - Phase 2

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.

September 19, 2016 - April 30, 2017
MLA CE Passport

MLA CE Passport- There are several classes that I am interested in that would enhance my value to my organization. These include Grey Literature, active learning, leading decision making meetings, marketing and strategic communication, survey questions, and critical health librarianship.

November 1, 2020 - March 31, 2021
MLA CE Passport

MLA CE Passport. Full access to MLA online courses through December 31, 2020. Extend your virtual learning experience and access all of MLAs online curriculum through December 31, 2020, by subscribing to the new CE Passport.

October 31, 2020 - December 31, 2020
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
Minwanjige, Mino Bimaadizi Eat Well, Live Well

Minwanjige, Mino Bimaadizi Eat Well, Live Well, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Campus, has the goals of 1 introducing 86 to the impact of food on physical, emotional and social wellbeing, 2 improving nutrition literacy, and 3 acting as a friendly format to share information with caregivers in the lives of 86. This is accomplished through creation of two culturally-responsive, age-appropriate activity books, one for the developmental range of 3rd-4th grade, the other for 5th-6th grade; similar books for Kindergarten and 1st-2nd grades will be available in April 2020.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Mino Izhiwebzi

Mino Izhiwebzi Good Health serves Native Americans Ojibwe Elders of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa. With MedlinePlus as its core resource, Mino Izhiwebzi uses a multifaceted approach to address chronic disease management and improved wellness among Elders by fostering: 1 health literacy and patient empowerment, 2 nutrition and wellness awareness, and 3 intergenerational bonding and learning. Native Americans in Minnesota experience the greatest health disparities in the nation; their life expectancy is a full 11 years less than the states white population.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2021
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