Past Funded Projects

BioData Club is an established data science education initiative at OHSU, formed in 2016. A collaboration of the OHSU Library, the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, research staff and graduate students, BioData Club hosts monthly science skills, tools, and best practices. In 2019, there were 7 workshops covering topics such as linear regression, git and Github, data manipulation with pandas, ontologies, and ggplot, with an average of over 50 registered attendees per session.

This project proposes to purchase 8 virtual reality VR headsets along with a portable charging dock to bring VR into classrooms where health information is being studied. Having this portable VR setup will meet a growing demand to have students use VR together to learn about issues such as bias, health information literacy, functions of the human body, and the on-demand use of counseling using VR. This VR equipment will provide more equitable access of such technologies to those in the health professions.

The goals of the project are to strengthen community engagement, increase awareness of NLM services and the Research Program 71, and highlight the library as a primary source of reliable information. Programming will include the Memory Caf, a free, two-hour library program for older 88 who are experiencing early onset Alzheimer's or dementia and their care partners, family, and friends. For learning and engagement, Juneau Public Libraries JPL will design Memory Kits, in partnership with the Alzheimers Resource of Alaska.

Over twelve months, Multnomah County Library MCL will plan, pilot, and evaluate six healthy lifestyle workshop series for 110 families in Multnomah County with a specific focus on Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Cantonese speaking populations. Our project will support these communities' health literacy needs by offering health lifestyle programs on nutrition and healthy cooking, fitness, which may include tai chi, qi gong, zumba, yoga, martial arts, and meditation and culturally relevant stress relief programs like karaoke and ping pong in their own language.

Meridian Library District will collaborate with community partners to create a city-wide initiative called Meridian Moves which will encourage citizens to practice healthy lifestyle choices like regular exercise and quality nutrition. As part of Meridian Moves, we will create a webpage that highlights all of Meridian Library Districts existing movement-based programs, as well as the new grant-funded health and wellness programs that we plan to offer these include both weekly health and wellness classes as well as a quarterly health literacy presentation.

The Nampa Public Library serves as a cornerstone for our community providing diverse gathering spaces, opportunities to learn, access to vital resources and programs for the enrichment of all. The Library continually evaluates ways to accommodate emerging community needs and to engage the public outside of the library to strengthen community relationships. With funding from this grant, the Library plans to launch a eight-month Be Well Nampa project for the primary objective of improving the quality of life in our community.

Building on a recent one-year National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Montana State University MSU Library will build an open source Dataset Search that promotes discovery of research datasets by using data repository APIs to automatically harvest metadata for research datasets from third-party repositories, and using human curators to create metadata records for restricted or in-progress data that is stored locally at MSU.

Fit & Lit: Health Literacy for 87 and Librarians, will teach 87 living in poverty and experiencing homelessness at Dishman Hills High School healthier lifestyle choices and stronger health literacy skills. Upon completion, students will demonstrate new proficiencies to improve their personal well-being and complete high quality biomedical and healthy living related research. Newly trained library staff will increase their abilities to provide a higher-quality service to library customers in need of health-related resources.

By partnering on a Little Free Libraries LFL initiative with Floridas Okeechobee County Library OCL, this project aims to improve 95 residents health literacy and understanding of precision medicine, through facilitating awareness of and access to NLMs consumer health resources and NIHs Research Program. This project supports NNLMs mission to improve public health by empowering underserved groups to make effective use of information for health decision-making. Little Free Library is an 94 nonprofit that fosters neighborhood book exchanges through outdoor book-sharing boxes.

The Healthy Canton 89 Project HCSP will strengthen the partnership between the Haywood County Public Library - Canton Branch and the Canton Senior Center. Working together, the partners will engage 89 in programming and services that assist 89 to live independent and healthy lives by focusing on three goals: increase health literacy, reduce food insecurity, and promote healthy eating.

This project is an exhibit of informational resources from NLM and other authoritative resources from government, professional associations, and trusted non-profits. This exhibit will be held at the Tennessee Public Health Association TPHA Annual Conference, taking place from September 9-11, 2020 at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs Hotel, 700 Cool Springs Road, Franklin, TN 37067.

The Rockville Public Library and its partners, The Vernon Senior Center, The Vernon Housing Authority, and the Rockville General Hospital, seek to improve health outcomes for adult residents living across Vernon/Rockville by promoting health literacy, expanding access to reliable health resources, and increasing fitness activity opportunities.

This project seeks to establish a multi-disciplinary effort dedicated to the practice of Dental Informatics through the training and development of new health delivery concepts and tools. This aligns itself with NNLMs efforts to advance the highest quality of health information to the greatest benefit of society. Dentistry is an information-intensive activity, and health informatics by its very nature supports such activities well.

The East Adams Library District is a small, 95 library in Eastern Washington State that serves multiple small communities in the eastern part of Adams County. Over the years, our communities have steadily lost access to social and health services while seeing a severe decline in annual income per capita all while experiencing an increase in mental and physical health related issues. Our library has decided to confront this issue head on with the creation of Access Health at East Adams. Access Health at East Adams will address our patrons needs in three ways.