Past Funded Projects

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.

Award to attend May 6-9, 2018 United States Public Health Service Annual Symposium in Minneapolis, MN

Attend the Managing from the Middle Symposium at the Medical Library Association 2019 Annual Meeting. The Symposium covers topics relevant to medical library leaders including diversity and inclusion, crafting compelling communications, leading during times of change, and navigating difficult relationships.

The Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System CEFLS in Plattsburgh, New York is seeking an award to raise awareness regarding the topic of domestic violence among residents in Clinton, Essex, and Franklin counties. CEFLS plans to collaborate with STOP Domestic Violence to coordinate a series of events in our shared service area.

Funding is requested for Alison Wessel and Bethany Geleskie to attend the Maryland and Delaware Library Association's annual conference.

As part of the Professional Services Agreement, the Contractor agrees to provide the following services related to health information outreach: Exhibiting - Exhibit at Illinois conferences and meetings relevant to health information outreach on behalf of the GMR, highlighting NLM/NIH resources and those of the contracting institution. Instruction - As requested, provide health information instruction to members of the Contractor's greater community.

Through the Arizona Outreach Subaward, the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library UAHSL will execute a variety of activities designed to reach out to various communities in our largely 95, highly diverse state. Of particular interest are 126s and public health workers; 'promotores de salud'; K-12 students; Hispanic, Native American, and border populations; public librarians especially in 95 areas; and individuals and communities who experience disparities in health care.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education ACGME requires each institution with a graduate medical education training program to make available adequate resources for fellow education. For nephrology training programs, a meeting room with visual and other educational aids is required. The nephrology fellowship program offers didactic sessions to the fellows in a conference room without a TV, and a small whiteboard for projection.

The Expanding Research Data Management Proposal seeks to offer training on the research data management lifecycle to librarians and 133s. The training courses will be offered by librarians at the Health Sciences Libraries HSL at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities who have a breadth and depth of knowledge to support this work, with experience related to data curation, data management, federal funding compliance, and research reproducibility See Appendix for Description of Setting and Summary of Librarian Expertise.

Technology with the Times will allow more access to technology improving the knowledge of staff, patients, and parents/caregivers at a large occupational therapy practice. This will improve the treatment of patients, the sharing of information, and facilitate increased collaboration and education of staff, patients, and families. Through a home program development, work with families, and staff training information from the National Library of Medicine will be more efficiently and effectively shared.

The Southeastern New York Library Resources Council SENYLRC proposes to raise awareness of unbiased and free health information available on the web from the National Library of MedicineNLM to school nurses and librarians in their region. They will do this through a series of live presentations along with a webinar for future reference and review. Southeastern's region consists of five BOCES Boards of Cooperative Educational Services. Within each BOCES are public school districts. Southeastern's BOCES are located in six counties in the Hudson Valley.

The project will promote the opening of the new library space would build on the momentum already generated this year and extend the reach of library service to team members not currently aware of its benefits. An additional emphasis on promoting free resources from the National Library of Medicine during the opening day event will further give team members tools to support their patients and thus improve health outcomes across the institution.

At 12% proficiency, U.S. health literacy sets the population at disadvantage for consumer health outcomes and overall healthcare costs NCES, 2006; DHHS, 2017. While efforts exist for improvement via rewriting and training in plain language, these strategies are found to be limited 'pieces of a process that must be placed in a larger community context' NNLM, 2018. Witnessed in this context is variance in access to health resources multiplied by effects of social determinants such as aging, low socio-economic and minority status.

North Carolina Veterinary Conference, November 2-4, 2018, Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, NC http://ncveterinaryconference.com/ Library exhibit will be located in a free lobby space immediately adjacent to the exhibit hall entrance, in an area with other non-profit educational displays. This will allow us to provide information outside of the scheduled exhibit hours, and be in the exhibit traffic flow without attendees mistaking the library for a vendor.