Past Funded Projects

According to the American Lung Association's 2019 "State of the Air" report, Pittsburghs air quality was ranked the 7th worst in the country. Poor air quality threatens the health of Southwestern Pennsylvanians, especially vulnerable populations, such as older 88 and those living with infectious lung diseases. This project proposes to give residents of Southwestern Pennsylvania accurate, timely, and useful information and guidance on how they can protect themselves and their families.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM/NNLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

The Ridgewood Public Library in partnership with the Stigma-Free Ridgewood committee has been working tirelessly during the Covid-19 Pandemic to provide 88tal Health resources and educational programs to the Ridgewood community with the goal of helping to ease isolation and anxiety associated with the pandemic, particularly in our more vulnerable populations.

For this award of $25,000 P. I. Advocates 94, Inc. PIA will teach and/or improve peoples computer skills in accessing high quality web-based health information and simultaneously improve their understanding of health literacy and the importance for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. We will delegate full attention to training as many people as possible doing the period of this contract which is from January 2021 to April 31 2021. PIA is introducing this project as community level health literacy training.

The purpose of this project is to ensure the preparedness of UTA libraries staff and faculty to respond to internal and external threats that may impact our ability to provide customary services. Currently, the UTA campus has a business continuity plan and emergency procedures, but the Libraries do not. To address deficiencies, our safety programming goals include training for staff and faculty to activate and respond to shelter-in-place, evacuate, lockdown, CPR, and Stop the Bleed during times of emergency. Designated safety captains receive training first, then library staff and faculty.

Project Summary: This is a collaborative project between the University of Memphis Community of 133s, and the Memphis Public Libraries. The purpose of this project is to provide access to COVID-19 related information to an underserved population, in the Memphis Area. The proposal goal is to implement a virtual education program. Aligned with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine SEA Region mission, this project aims to: Increase awareness and use of COVID-19 and other health information resources. Provide training in the use of health sciences information resources.

Brenau University is introducing a new entry-level masters of science in nursing. Evidence-based practice, an essential element of providing high-quality healthcare, is a core concept of the curriculum. To learn evidence-based practice skills, students have to be explicitly taught how to locate, access, evaluate, and apply healthcare research information. This project will integrate these required information literacy skills into the new nursing curriculum through asynchronous, interactive online tutorials.

The Network of the National Library of Medicine NNLM intends to continue expanding opportunities for in-person and virtual engagement efforts in support of the awareness and retention goals of the NIHs Research Program. Citizen science is an area of focus for engagement and retention activities and aligns with the NNLM and priority health and wellness topics.

Bellevue College will improve health information access for underrepresented populations by purchasing 30 hotspots and data plans for student use, as well as create a series of workshops instructing patrons in finding high-quality information about COVID-19, including NIH and NLM sources. The workshops will also address combating misinformation around COVID-19, and educating participants about evaluating online information.

Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center will develop a program that provides training to the staff, clinicians, and administrators of 6 outpatient mental health clinics in Eastern Pennsylvania on promising practices for providing affirming mental health care to the LGBT community. The training will encompass implications for practice, minority stressors, barriers to care, and the increased rates of trauma within the LGBT population.

This project seeks to establish a multi-disciplinary effort dedicated to the practice of Health Informatics through the COVID-19 pandemic time, by development and implementation of current health delivery concepts and tools such as Infection Control and Vaccines. This aligns itself with NIH, NNLM and CDCs efforts to advance the highest quality of health information to the greatest benefit of society. Dentistry and other health professions are an information-intensive activity, and health informatics by its very nature supports such activities well.

The proposed initiative, MSEARCH BYOD, will provide trainings for patrons and staff members at three Baker-Ripley Neighbor Center senior locations. NNLM resources that will be used in the training are MedlinePlus.gov, The National Institute on Aging, and NIHs Go4Life websites. Participants will be asked to bring their personal smartphone or mobile tablet devices if available to the trainings. Participants who cannot bring a mobile device to the training will be provided a mobile tablet device for use during each class.

Audre Lorde states, Caring for myself is not self-indulgence; it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.1 For librarians of color, the stresses of working and existing in the predominantly white spaces of libraries and librarianship, can be both physically and mentally exhausting.2 Currently, librarians of color are experiencing the impact of stress from ongoing systematic racism against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stress from this global pandemic is disproportionately impacting communities of color in the United States.