Past Funded Projects

This page includes awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021).

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Title Summary Project Period
Schow Science Library at Williams College Professional Development Award - ALA Midwinter

Professional development to attend Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections on Health Equity at the ALA Midwinter conference in Seattle, WA, January 2019.

October 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
School-based Alternative Peer Groups

The School Based Alternative Peer Group APG brings an evidence-based model of recovery support inside the school setting to reach disadvantaged students, advance behavioral health equity and reduce stigma . APGs are a comprehensive adolescent recovery support model that integrates recovering peers and prosocial activities into an evidence-based clinical practice. They promise to be an effective tool with which to turn the tide in the fight against the opioid epidemic. School Based APGs serve to increase the receipt of APG services for disadvantaged student populations.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
School-Based Alternative Peer Group APG: An innovative solution to reach disadvantaged students, advance behavioral health equity and reduce stigma in the prevention and recovery of adolescent addiction

The School Based Alternative Peer Group APG brings an evidence-based model of recovery support inside the school setting to reach disadvantaged students, advance behavioral health equity and reduce stigma . APGs are a comprehensive adolescent recovery support model that integrates recovering peers and pro-social activities into an evidence-based clinical practice. They promise to be an effective tool with which to turn the tide in the fight against the opioid epidemic. School Based APGs serve to increase the receipt of APG services for disadvantaged student populations.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Savitt Medical Library: Native Voices Traveling Exhibit

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.

October 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Salud! Here's to Your Health!

The mission of Jackson County Library Services is to connect everyone to information, ideas, and each other. To support our mission and that of NNLM, JCLS will present two health literacy programs; one in English for general audiences, and one in Spanish for the 7.9% of Jackson County households who speak Spanish. A panel of bilingual health care and library professionals will speak on the topics of COVID-19, locating quality health information online, talking to your doctor, and understanding your prescription.

December 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Salud y Bienestar: Entrenamiento Para Promotores/ Health and Wellness: Training for Promoters Community Health Workers

This project aims to increase the knowledge of suicide prevention and 101 and raise awareness and use of National Library of Medicine resources among Community Health Workers CHWs, students enrolled in Dona Ana Community College's CHW certificate program, and community members who will ultimately benefit.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Safe Medication Disposal Education and Research Project

This project will design, conduct, and evaluate a 4-month pilot study in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Providence, Rhode Island which will assess the effectiveness of a community-based campaign to work with and educate key stakeholders about the need to dispose of unused opioid prescription drugs. Determine if the proposed model is effective and can be used in other communities to reduce the significant amount of unused opioid prescriptions that remain in medicine cabinets. NLM resources will be distributed and education about opioid related NLM information will be given.

February 1, 2019 - April 30, 2019
Routes to Recovery

The Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System CEFLS in Plattsburgh, New York is seeking an award to print hard copy resource guides and develop a mobile app that provide information about local and online mental health and addiction resources. The goal is to provide easy access to this information. The end user target population consists of individuals seeking and utilizing services as well as their family members. In addition, library staff and human services professionals in our region will be trained on the resources so that they can assist in disseminating the information.

February 1, 2017 - April 30, 2017
Rotary Clubs Providing Addiction Prevention Education to Their New England Communities

Involve local stakeholders in the Rotary effort to promote community-based education on preventing substance abuse/addiction at the local level in all New England states CT, MA, ME, NH, RI and VT. Addiction prevention and treatment resources from the National Library of Medicine will be used in conjunction with the the Addiction Prevention Toolkits from Edventi.

February 1, 2019 - April 30, 2019
Rethinking Early Neurosurgery: The Harvey Cushing collection

The Cushing Center, which opened in 2010, brought renewed attention to the materials within Harvey Cushing's collections, which include, beyond the Registry, over 200 boxes of archival material, made available through an online finding aid http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0160. The brains and tumors are being used in research again, including genetic sequencing of 20 specimens related to acromegaly, gigantism, and Cushing's disease.

December 1, 2016 - April 30, 2017
Resources and Services for Community Health Nursing Clinics Across the State of Nevada

To support community health nurses across the State of Nevada by providing instruction and promotion of freely available health information, with a focus on National Library of Medicine NLM resources. This award would allow us to re-visit the nursing clinics across the state. Funding will be used for visits to gather input from the nurses and to strengthen our online portal that was developed during the first year of funding from NNLM PSR. This project will promote access to quality information and provide greater support for 95 care providers in Nevada.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
RESILIENT Workshops: REady Steady In the Library: taking Initiative before an Emergency, Natural disaster, or Trauma

The RESILIENT Workshops REady Steady In the Library: taking Initiative before an Emergency, Natural disaster, or Trauma present a curriculum of self-paced learning and online workshops curated from existing federal and state materials that will support and empower library staff and improve library resiliency in the preparation, response, and recovery phases of an emergency or disaster in their libraries or communities.

June 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Reshaping a Health Information Clearinghouse to Improve User Experience and Outcomes of 95 Primary Healthcare Providers

This proposal reflects a partnership between the Savitt Medical Library at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the Office of Statewide Initiatives, University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine. The overarching aim of the proposal is to apply the expertise of professional health sciences librarians in order to improve access to health information resources, and to increase 95 healthcare professionals engagement with curated online clinical educational materials.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Research Reproducibilty Course

The goal of this project is that the University of Utah and the Eccles Health Sciences Library are recognized as leaders in research reproducibility through the development and implementation of a week-long immersive course in June 2018 on research reproducibility. Objectives: 1. 80% of trainees, 133s and librarians attending the immersive course will report learning new concepts, principles, and techniques in reproducible research. 2. 80% of 133s and grantee attendees will report increased awareness of issues surrounding research reproducibility.

November 1, 2017 - April 30, 2019
Research Data: University of Cincinnati Data Day 2019

133s producing data face unique challenges in data management, data sharing, reproducible research and preservation. The University of Cincinnati's annual Data Day event began in 2015 to highlight these challenges and to provide opportunities for 133s to engage with those who can offer credible information on data related services. Data Day presenters have included 133s, scholars, scientists, GIS experts, faculty and students who come together to speak about the work that they do as it relates to data.

July 23, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Research Data: Research Data Management for Graduate Students in STEM

The Research Data Management Best Practice Implementation project supports the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM goal of building 'capacity in data management practices, services and tools to support FAIR data guiding principles 1'. This program will increase graduate student knowledge of data management best practices, promote student understanding of how data management integrates into their research work, and determine if these practices are adopted long term.

June 19, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Research Data: Making County-Level Health Data FAIR Initiative

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.

July 27, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Research Data: Expanding Research Data Management Education for Health Science Librarians

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.

April 18, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Research Data Management Best Practice Implementation Program for Graduate Students in STEM and Health Sciences

The Research Data Management Best Practice Implementation project supports the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM goal of building capacity in data management practices, services and tools to support FAIR data guiding principles 1. This program will increase graduate student knowledge of data management best practices, promote student understanding of how data management integrates into their research work, and determine if these practices are adopted long term.

June 19, 2018 - April 30, 2020
Research Data Management 294 - Equipping Citizen Scientists to Make a Difference: Developing a Plan for an Online Course

A citizen scientist is either a member of the public who works with a scientist to gather data to collaboratively solve a problem, or is investigating a research question on their own. In our information and data rich society, it is important to equip citizen scientists with the research skills that will enable them to conduct sound scientific investigations. Their research outcomes can be applied to solve an issue, raise awareness, or advocate for change.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Research Data Management 266 - 2019- UTHSC- NIH-NNLM Research Data Management Symposium

Biomedical and health sciences 133s will participate in a training symposium going beyond the basics of research data management. Symposium will provide research enrichment forum which include: data literacy, data wrangling, data visualization, biomedical and health research data management. The symposium will be conducted at UTHSC campus in Memphis, TN. Date: April 18, 2019. Time 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Research and Data Engagement Award Data Search: A lightweight tool to promote discovery of health sciences research data

Building on a recent one-year National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Montana State University MSU Library will build an open source Dataset Search that promotes discovery of research datasets by using data repository APIs to automatically harvest metadata for research datasets from third-party repositories, and using human curators to create metadata records for restricted or in-progress data that is stored locally at MSU.

October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020
Research and Data Engagement Award BioData Club: A Partnership model for Advancing Data Literacy

BioData Club is an established data science education initiative at OHSU, formed in 2016. A collaboration of the OHSU Library, the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, research staff and graduate students, BioData Club hosts monthly science skills, tools, and best practices. In 2019, there were 7 workshops covering topics such as linear regression, git and Github, data manipulation with pandas, ontologies, and ggplot, with an average of over 50 registered attendees per session.

October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020
Research & Data Engagement Award: AAHSL/NNLM Data Scholarships for Librarians

The Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries AAHSL will partner with the NNLM to offer data scholarships to AAHSL members to increase knowledge, skills and competencies through continuing education about data management in order to strengthen participation in data science learning about best practices for organizing, managing, visualizing and sharing data.

July 8, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Reducing Health Disparities among VIPs and Other Minority Groups

It is often said that if you want to be healthy, choose your parents wisely. We know that persons with disabilities, or as we prefer, persons who are differently abled, come in all forms and sizes, with many different conditions. We also know that at some point in our lives, we will be differently abled as well. Since we can't choose our parents, we must rely on the choices that are available to us.

December 1, 2016 - April 30, 2017
Reducing Health Disparities among VIPs - Addressing Health, Aging and Vision in North Worcester County

This project will engage the many Visually Impaired People VIPs and their caretakers in North Worcester County, specifically those residing in the Fitchburg and Leominster areas. We have a presence in the City of Worcester area, with many VIPs and caretakers and sighted guides joining us in the several activities that weve organized and repeated over the past five years. We now look to our friends to the north and invite them to join us. Estimates of the number of VIPs in north Worcester County usually exceed 1,000, with one estimate around 3,000.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Reaching Beyond: Expand Outbreak! 2020 to new online audiences

The current global pandemic has pushed the Public Health Museum PHM to retool delivery of its successful week-long "Outbreak!" high school summer program into a virtual classroom experience and virtual museum tours. Outbreak! is in its eighth year of bringing dedicated and knowledgeable health professionals together to share their experience and enthusiasm with students interested in careers in public health. We have the opportunity now to significantly expand our student audience and share our curriculum online.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
REACH: Resources, Education, and Access for Community Health

In the Show Low, AZ, region there are barriers in receiving relevant, factual information that relates to overall health and wellness. Those barriers primarily exist due to a lack of internet connectivity, access to computers or mobile devices or lack of knowledge on where to find relevant health information.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
RDM 324 GHRconnects Professional and Community Training

The Greater Hampton Roads Community Indicators Dashboard GHRconnects brings leadership and resources together to facilitate regional, data-driven decision making in Hampton Roads. As United Way of South Hampton Roads UWSHR receives local data from community-based organizations and collective impact initiatives, GHRconnects provides insight into the needs of these organizations and increases access to health statistics, resources, and research.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
RDM 14: Teaching Data Literacy through an Escape Room

This data literacy escape room will teach graduate students in disciplines of the health sciences how to manage data ethically. The game will serve as one component in a series of data literacy modules, which will fill a gap in the current graduate school curriculum by addressing data management in a systematic way. The game will be designed to meet learning objectives in an innovative way to engage students beyond the classroom setting, based on established research. This project hopes to add to this literature with positive results.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
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