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
Connect for your health

Connect for your health is a partnership between Hershey Public Library and the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to bring consumer health resources to those in our community who fall between the cracks of the digital divide. A series of virtual workshops will introduce attendees to the wealth of resources available online and in their community to support their health and wellness. This program will be targeted to those in our community who do not have in-home internet access. Attendees will be provided with a laptop and internet hot spot in order to attend.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Connect to your Health Wellness Fair

As one of the largest consumers of healthcare, senior 88 are often left behind as new technologies are introduced to support patient engagement. The goal of The Connect to your Health wellness fair project was to provide an interactive educational experience to connect the 89 living in the Town of Southampton to online health-related resources. A collaborative effort between Stony Brook University, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, and the Town of Southampton Senior Centers helped drive this project forward.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Connect to your Health Wellness Fair

As one of the largest consumers of healthcare, senior 88 are often left behind as new technologies are introduced to support patient engagement. The 'Connect 2 UR Health' wellness fair will provide 89 living in the Town of Southampton with an educational experience that connects them to online health-related resources. This wellness fair will feature discussions with licensed health providers from Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and students from Stony Brook University pre-professional Allied Health programs.

May 10, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Connecting and Improving Digital Literacy & Health Literacy Outcomes in Public Housing

The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh HACP is requesting grant funding to expand its existing digital literacy program, which is designed to bridge the digital divide among low-income public housing communities. HACP is proposing to incorporate health literacy programming by incorporating MedlinePlus and other online health tools into the curriculum of its existing digital literacy program.

October 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Connecting Systemic Diseases and Oral Health of 86: Accessible Information to Help Families Understand the Relationship

The goal of this project is to develop accurate health information concerning the effects of systemic diseases on the oral health of 86 and/or how the oral health of a child can affect the prognosis of a systemic disease, and to make this information available to families in a user-friendly format. Having this information will encourage parents to seek dental care for their 86 with systemic diseases. Dental health professionals will create this information, written at an appropriate level for a consumer, and build a dynamic website devoted to providing such information.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Connecting Systemic Diseases and Oral Health of 86: Accessible Information to help Families Understand the Relationship

The goal of this project is to develop accurate health information concerning the effects of systemic diseases on the oral health of 86 and/or how the oral health of a child can affect the prognosis of a systemic disease, and to make this information available to families in a user-friendly format. Having this information will encourage parents to seek dental care for their 86 with systemic diseases. Dental health professionals will create this information, written at an appropriate level for a consumer, and build a dynamic website devoted to providing such information.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Connecting with Health

This public library project will facilitate access to quality health care via telemedicine in a 95 community. In a COVID-19 world, avoiding in-person visits not only adheres to self-quarantine and social distancing guidelines, but also lightens hospital and physician loads to focus on patients with the most acute sickness and symptoms. The virtual experience will lessen the risk of exposure and infection of other persons.

November 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Connections4Health: Improving Patient Health through Addressing Social Determinants of Health

Connections4Health C4H is an innovative program of placing a 'social service help desk' in the waiting area of underserved medical centers to assist patients in their unmet needs during, and as part of, their medical visit. Volunteer college students are trained as 'Community Health Fellows' to work with patients while they are attending a medical appointment. These volunteers engage patients one-on-one to understand their unmet social service needs and create individualized action plans with referrals to relevant social service agencies.

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Consumer Health Information Specialization CHIS Initiative

The goal of this project is to increase the number of public library staff with a Consumer Health Information Specialization CHIS certification and equip them to provide health information to their communities. The work of the CHIS trainer will increase the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Regions capacity to enroll students in online and in-person classes.

May 1, 2019 - November 30, 2020
Continuing education to Nurses in Northern Nevada; Promoting NLM and other freely available quality online resources

This project has been funded to support nurses in Washoe County by providing continuing education classes. This instruction will focus on freely available health information resources and will promote the use of National Library of Medicine NLM resources, as well as other authoritative resources. Courses will be developed for both online self-paced, asynchronous and in-person instruction, and both formats will provide CE credits to nurses.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Continuing Health Information Outreach in New Mexico

Through this project, HSLIC will focus on sustaining the connections with the many organizations in New Mexico it has partnered with in the past to raise awareness of free health information resources available through the National Library of Medicine. This will be accomplished through an array of demos, classes, exhibits, and health fairs. This awareness building will specifically target 95, underserved populations and those who provide services for them in New Mexico through the promotion of NLM resources.

September 19, 2016 - April 30, 2017
Continuing the Public Health Museums educational community outreach program 2019-2020

The Public Health Museum is a non-profit educational and cultural museum located in a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places on the grounds of Tewksbury Hospital founded in 1854. The mission of the Public Health Museum is two-fold: to educate the public about the achievements and contributions of public health in preventing disease and improving the health of individuals and communities in Massachusetts and worldwide; and to inspire students, 133s, health care workers and 131s to build upon the past and continue to advance the future of public health.

May 1, 2019 - October 31, 2020
Conversations with Patients: Helping Patients Help Themselves

Student nurses will interview patients in medically under-served communities to determine their specific health-related concerns. They will then show patients how to access language appropriate, easy to understand medical information.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Convert Seven Popular Online Interactives

The Genetic Science Learning center will convert and upgrade seven popular online interactives that were developed in Flash to compatible formats for modern web browsers. The Project will make the following upgrades to each interactive as part of the conversion and upgrade process and will make the interactives freely available on the GSLCs Learn.Genetics website.

January 14, 2021 - April 15, 2021
Copyrightlaws.com Copyright Leadership Certificate

Request to attend the Copyrightlaws.com Copyright Leadership Certificate course. Subawardees main purpose of obtaining the Copyright Leadership Certification is to enhance and improve our best practices with copyright

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Core Clinical Journals - Living Up to the Name

Clinicians directly searching PubMed can apply the Core Clinical Journal CCJ filter to restrict retrieval. The existing CCJ list hasnt been updated since 1979, thus reducing access to the most clinically relevant biomedical and health information. Although PubMed comprises over 28 million citations, the filter to find those for patient care is currently suboptimal. This project would convene the Medical Library Association committee that was formed at the request of NLM to update the CCJ subset.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
CoughEtiquette 2016-2017

We will continue supporting our education program with previous participants who wish to continue. However, we are shifting our strategy to move into public spaces and reach people of all ages to expand the awareness of the importance of proper coughing and sneezing etiquette. Dense, highly traveled areas where public are required to be for purposes such as transportation, judicial hearings, and attendance at public zoos and other areas, are the focus of this year's campaign to educate and encourage proper sneezing and coughing etiquette.

November 1, 2016 - April 30, 2017
CoughSpot 2017-18 Community Engagement Program

We would like to extend the Program's reach to more of New England, all while streamlining the Program to teach people to appropriately cover their cough. We'd like to make the program available to more schools by providing a digitized curriculum, and streamline the Program by enhancing the effectiveness of the Program while constraining costs so we only mail posters and tattoos. We would like to partner with the Rhode Island Department of Health to reach people of all ages to expand the awareness of the importance of proper coughing and sneezing etiquette.

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
County-Level Health Data Fair

The Making County-Level Health Data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable FAIR Initiative will consist of three phases in order to establish and sustain an online interface for local health professionals and librarians to access and analyze county-level health assessment data, as well as educate these individuals on utilizing this resource and creating their own data management plans.

July 27, 2018 - May 30, 2019
Couples Team Work: Promoting Access to Information and Resources for Vulnerable Populations

Couples Team Work is a program for couples in which one partner has a chronic illness and the other is transitioning into a role of partner/caregiver. Couples work together to support each other's needs by learning about and developing systems to enable them to make informed decisions about their health.

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
COVID Learning, Engagement & Assistance for all Neighborhoods CLEAN Program

The Institute for Community, Youth and Family Services Inc. The Institute proposes to provide COVID-19 resources and education to Alabamas most low-income communities. By partnering with service providers, churches, local government and the public housing authority we will ensure that trainings and materials are useful to the community itself and delivered through trusted institutions who can best serve them from within the community.

December 11, 2020 - April 30, 2021
COVID-19 Health Information Access-What You Need!

The COVID-19 Health Information Access-What You Need to Know program is designed to train community members and healthcare professionals on strategies on how to manage information overload and combat misinformation. The goals of the program are to promote awareness of mis- and disinformation that lead to serious and harmful physical and mental consequences and to provide access to high quality electronic information resources to help make informed health care decisions relating to COVID-19.

December 11, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Creating an Interactive Digital Gallery: Using Touchscreens to Enhance NLM Exhibits and Classes

Interactive elements within exhibits and classes enhance the engagement and learning of the participants. This proposed technology enhancement award will increase the interactive capability of the University of Oklahoma OU-Tulsa Schusterman Library's digital gallery by adding two digital touchscreens for use in exhibit displays and teaching.

September 19, 2016 - April 30, 2017
Creating interactive online learning modules to advance the research skills of the University of Kansas Medical Center community

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 he

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Creating Ready-Made Health Education Toolkits

The Oakland University William Beaumont OUWB School of Medicine Medical Library and Auburn Hills Public Library established a health literacy educational outreach partnership in August 2018. Since then, the libraries have partnered to plan, offer, and evaluate a series of pilot programs for 86, their parents, and adult library users on various health topics. The programs were developed and implemented by an interdisciplinary team including medical school faculty and staff, medical students, medical librarians, and public librarians.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians

Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians: This is a multi-work course aimed at developing a librarians critical appraisal skills including enhanced understanding of research design, biomedical statistics, and clinical reasoning to apply knowledge in teaching target populations.

January 26, 2021 - March 16, 2021
Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians

CAIFL is a fully online course that consists of: assessment; self-directed learning through video, readings, and problem sets; small group facilitated exercises; and plenary talks by physician and librarian experts in evidence based practice and critical appraisal. Goal: To develop librarians critical appraisal skills including enhanced understanding of research design, biomedical statistics, and clinical reasoning to apply knowledge in teaching target populations. Prerequisite: Experience and prior training in EBM fundamentals.

January 26, 2021 - March 16, 2021
Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians

CAIFL is a fully online course that consists of: assessment; self-directed learning through video, readings, and problem sets; small group facilitated exercises; and plenary talks by physician and librarian experts in evidence based practice and critical appraisal.

January 26, 2021 - March 16, 2021
Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians

An online course that consists of assessment; self-directed learning through video, readings, and problem sets; small group facilitated exercises; and plenary talks by physician and librarian experts in evidence-based practice and critical appraisal.

January 26, 2021 - March 16, 2021
Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians

The purpose of this project will be to create and establish a symposium to develop high level critical appraisal skills in librarians who work with health care information. Many health sciences librarians provide evidence based medicine EBM training at their home institutions. For most their involvement in this training is limited to training: asking questions PICO; searching resources; and only a rudimentary coverage of critical appraisal of clinical information.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
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