Past Funded Projects

The Augusta-Richmond Community Health Outreach Project will provide reliable and free access health information to residents within the Richmond County. Using the public libraries as a host venue, various speakers and officials will teach participants about health issues relevant to the Augusta area such as opioid use, Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular disease, domestic abuse, and diabetes. Over six months, there will be six presentations about the selected topics with two of the presentations being about opioid use.

Technology with the Times will allow more access to technology improving the knowledge of staff, patients, and parents/caregivers. 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. This combined with our knowledge and expertise in occupational, physical and speech and language therapy to help those we serve.

Dell Medical School, which opened in June 2016, is charting new ground when it comes to developing value-based models of care. The school has made a commitment to improve the health outcomes of the community it serves and to reach beyond traditional health care models to identify and address the social determinants of health.

The exhibit will have trifolds on NLM mobile, Pubmed Health, Pubmed, Medline Plus, Toxtown, and other pertinent materials. A portion of the handouts will focus on the NLM materials that support education of youth and 87.

Funding will directly support honorariums and/or travel expenses of instructors who will teach MLA CE classes for the 2018 MAC Annual Meeting in Ocean City, MD.

This award supports an additional travel day on trips scheduled for Assistant Professor Sigrid Brudie of the Alaska Medical Library for public library training sessions. The desired outcome is that residents will be able to identify reliable and appropriate health information sources to meet their needs, and know that their local library and librarians are an access point for these resources.

This project will establish health sciences library services across a 4-hospital affiliation in 95, underserved Coos County in northern New Hampshire. Among the four North Country Healthcare hospitals the affiliation, Littleton Regional is the lone hospital with a full service health sciences library. The primary goal of this project is to maintain and enhance the quality of health care in Northern New Hampshire by providing health professionals at the North Country Healthcare hospitals timely access to reliable health information resources.

We will focus on several different topics of 92's health, including heart disease, reproductive safety and health, depression and mental health, eating healthy, working out, cancer, yearly screenings, autoimmune disease, caring for a loved one, and self-defense. We will hold 9 sessions, each one hour long, once per month from August through April. We want the 92 in our communities to understand and value their own health and wellness.

Exhibit at the Tennessee Public Health Association TPHA; Annual Conference; September 11-14, 2018

Despite improvements in medical care and efforts to make healthcare more affordable for all Americans, many still experience significant heath disparities that result in poor health outcomes. Racial and ethnic minorities, those in 95 and/or 98 areas, and those living in medically underserved areas have a high risk for experiencing health related disparities. Access to authoritative health information is vital to ensuring that individuals make appropriate health decisions and reduce their risk of experiencing poor health outcomes.

To enable Southern Chapter/MLA to support and host multiple CE courses and keynote speakers during the annual meeting in Orlando, FL, Oct. 25-28, 2018. The funding will help defray the expense of bringing in CE instructors and thus allow SC/MLA to lower the CE registration costs for attendees. These courses will also have MLA approved CE points offered for members to count toward AHIP certification. The Chapter has invited Derrick Jefferson of American University in Washington, D.C. to come speak on the last day of the conference - Sunday, October 28th, 2018.

Attend and participate in the ALA Midwinter Session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

As a resource library for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM, the Gibson D. Lewis Health Science Library is proposing the establishment of a directory of local health organization's programs and events called the H.O.P.E. Directory. The establishment of this directory will help centralize access to reliable and authoritative local information, raise awareness of the role of resource libraries, and generate collaboration between organizations.

The Savitt Medical Library will be a host site for the National Library of Medicine's NLM Native Voices Traveling Exhibit. The Library will use funding to work with Native American communities in Northern Nevada to plan events surrounding the exhibit, including an opening reception and a speaker event. The speaker event will be on 'Food Sovereignty and Native American Nutrition.' These events and the exhibit will be promoted to local Native American communities, the University community, and to Northern Nevada clinicians.