Past Funded Projects

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.

Congratulations to Samantha Kennefick! She was awarded a Professional Development Award for LIS students to attend MCMLA 2019 in Omaha, NE.

Citizen Science Game Day is a project for public libraries and other NNLM members to promote citizen science and to engage with library users. The project includes an embeddable Project Finder that libraries can implement on their websites.

This course is a three-day session held at Northwestern Universitys Galter Health Sciences Library, where 25 librarians and research professionals will come together to learn from experts in using publication and citation-based statistics that are being brought in from Leiden Universitys Centre for Science and Technology Studies CWTS. The information page for the course is at https://www.cwts.nl/education/bibliometrics-and-scientometrics-for-rese….

Exhibit at Remote Area Medical RAM Clinic, Wise, VA

Professional Development Award to attend NNLM Seminar on Consumer health 6/21/2019

Professional Development Award to attend NNLM Seminar on Consumer Health 6/21/2019

Professional Development Award to attend NNLM Seminar on Consumer Health 6/21/2019

Professional Development Award to attend Library Institute of the Oregon Library Association LIOLA June 18-21

Professional Development Award to attend NNLM Seminar on Consumer Health 6/21/2019

The conference is the 2019 Northern California/Nevada Medical Library Group and the Medical Library Group of Southern California/Arizona Joint Meeting, with a conference theme of Critical Health Sciences Librarianship: Examining our Role in Social Justice. Attending this conference will meet institutional goals in several ways. System Library Services serves all of Providence St. Joseph Health, including our California locations. As the Digital Asset Librarian I manage our institutional repository and research metric tracking, including for California.

The NLM traveling exhibit Graphic Medicine: Ill Conceived and Well-Drawn! will be hosted at the East Tennessee State University Medical Library in Johnson City, TN from April 29, 2019-June 8, 2019. The exhibit consists of 6 banners on stands. From the exhibit's website: "Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn! explores an increasingly popular, yet little-known literary field that presents personal illness narratives and health information through the medium of comics.