Past Funded Projects

Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust will help persons from underrepresented populations better access, identify and use reliable health information on the internet. With todays focus on obtaining information online or going mobile, there has become a digital divide for individuals with low health literacy, many of whom are represented among vulnerable populations, using online and other digital tools for health Pew, 2015.

The Community Health in the Library CHIL: Reinvigorating Outreach at the UIC Crawford Library of the Health Sciences project will improve access to high quality, reliable health information for the city of Rockford, Illinois and the surrounding Winnebago County community. UICs Crawford Library of the Health Sciences, hereafter referred to as the Crawford Library, has had a long history of participating in community outreach, educating the community on the National Library Medicine NLM resources, and housing a Consumer Health Collection specifically for the community.

Enable Southern Chapter/MLA to support and host a recommended and well recognized speaker and host Continuing Education courses on meeting the evolving needs and expectations of library users during the annual meeting in Savannah, GA Oct. 10-12, 2019, for the benefit of all members of the Southern Chapter/MLA who are able to attend the regional conference.

Exhibit at the Georgia Libraries Conference October 9-11, 2019

The Professional Development Committee for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association would like to use this funding to support honorariums and travel expenses for continuing education instructors who will teach professional development classes as part of the MAC-MLA Annual Meeting.There will be four classes offered.

This years theme is We are Local Connect, Create, Contribute. This will be quite appropriate as I work closely with the University of South Alabama hospitals and elderly communities promoting and creating an awareness of the rich and freely available resources from NLM contributing to better health among our community. The exhibit will consist of two tables in a corner booth that maximizes visibility. Resources will be displayed in acrylic displays to enhance the visual presence of the materials on the tables.

The goal of the project is to obtain extra laptops so the ASSIST Volunteers, as well as the Community Resource Partners, will have the ability to connect more Care Receivers to community resources using technology that they may be unable to afford or navigate on their own. In this way, ASSIST can increase their effectiveness in their outreach to the needy in 95 Flathead County. The main audience to benefit from our proposed technology improvements will be the Care Receivers. Care Receivers are previous patients who have been discharged from the hospital and are now in their home.

By obtaining extra laptops the ASSIST Volunteers, as well as the Community Resource Partners, will have the ability to connect more Care Receivers to community resources using technology that they may be unable to afford or navigate on their own. In this way, ASSIST can increase their effectiveness in their outreach to the needy in 95 Flathead County

The Public Library Association PLA will educate PLA members and other public library staff about implicit bias's connection to health equity and foster a deeper understanding of health literacy as a tool to address health equity within vulnerable communities. We will do this through multiple continuing education and promotional activities, including an Institute at the ALA 2019 Midwinter Meeting, a webinar, a Public Libraries journal article or other publication such as Quick Reads and podcast, and more.

The library will purchase 3 Kindles that have been pre- loaded with quality books on health topics that are significant to the people in this area.

Attend the Transforming Research Conference, being held September 26-27, 2019 in Washington DC. As a library professional this conference provides an opportunity to engage in discussions into practices, policies, and methods that will enable 133s understand its own impact. This conference attracts people from a wide variety of disciplines academic librarians, library administrators, 133s, curators, and representatives from different institutions.

Exhibit at the Tennessee Public Health Association Annual Conference

Research shows Native Americans continue to fall far behind all other ethnic groups in King County, Washington, with regards to health care disparities. Poor outcome indicators, in high rates of heart disease, diabetes, mental health, and violence, are among signicant consequences. Among a short list of prioritized new directions, three planning goals define our approach to providing health awareness and the acquisition to health care resources.

LSU Health Shreveport has a unique way of reaching the people attending this conference and engaging them because of our Amazing Captain Fit. This is a fantastic opportunity to hand out materials to a diverse population.