Past Funded Projects

Tennessee Public Health Association TPHA; Annual Conference; September 11-14, 2018; Franklin Marriott Cool Springs. The exhibit will be held at a table at TPHA and will include multiple handouts created by NLM that cover different relevant NLM databases and products. Specific handouts included will cover PubMed, NLM mobile resources, and more. The exhibit will also include a banner advertising medical library services.

Funding is requested to support travel to the 'Systematic Review Workshop: The Nuts and Bolts for Librarians', July 16-18, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to to assist MSKCC clinical 133s using Systematic Review best techniques and highest standards available up to date.

To enable the Southern Chapter/MLA to support and host a speaker who will directly address the challenges for academic and hospital libraries in the future. To accompany our theme, 'Experience the Magic: Libraries of Tomorrow',Julie Esparza, MLS, AHIP, will discuss what she sees for libraries and librarians around the corner. Julie is not only the new President-Elect of MLA, but has also served a long career in academic, hospital, corporate, and public libraries before arriving in Shreveport, LA at LSU Health.

The professional development award will support travel and additional training at the Evidence Based Librarianship in Practice EBLIP 9 conference in Philadelphia, PA. As a mid-career faculty member, this conference presents an opportunity to expand my skillset into other areas relevant to health sciences librarianship. This conference is an 94 conference that rotates locations around the world. The overall organization stems from the University of Saskatchewan's Centre for Evidence Based Library & Information Practice.

Award will help public librarian recipient attend MLA Symposium/Health Information for Public Librarians 2018. Description: The symposium, of interest to both public librarians and health sciences librarians, offers programming in the area of health information for the public. It also provides a unique opportunity for public and health sciences librarians to network.

Award will help public librarian recipient attend MLA Symposium/Health Information for Public Librarians 2018. Description: The symposium, of interest to both public librarians and health sciences librarians, offers programming in the area of health information for the public. It also provides a unique opportunity for public and health sciences librarians to network.

Award will help public librarian recipient attend MLA Symposium/Health Information for Public Librarians 2018. Description: The symposium, of interest to both public librarians and health sciences librarians, offers programming in the area of health information for the public. It also provides a unique opportunity for public and health sciences librarians to network.

The Public Librarian Symposium at the Medical Library Association MLA offers a unique opportunity for public librarians to receive education about health information and provide an introduction to National Library of Medicine resources and the National Network of Libraries' of Medicine. The symposium overlaps with the last day and a half of MLA's annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, and can be followed by an optional half day education boot camp for the Consumer Health Information Specialization CHIS organized by the GMR.

Award will help public librarian recipient attend MLA Symposium/Health Information for Public Librarians 2018. Description: The symposium, of interest to both public librarians and health sciences librarians, offers programming in the area of health information for the public. It also provides a unique opportunity for public and health sciences librarians to network.

The Community Health Workshop project seeks to utilize and build on the role of community spaces such as libraries, senior centers, and community centers to facilitate access to knowledge and promote action amongst the underrepresented and underserved in Tarrant County, specifically the Hispanic and African American populations. The proposed project introduces community members to reliable consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine.

The project aims to increase the community's awareness of precision medicine. Over a three-year period, a series of informational programs will be implemented to introduce the fundamentals of precision medicine. The informational programs will discuss the connections between biology, health and lifestyle, the environment as well as, the collection and use of patients' health information on mobile devices.

Zip code 75212 is an economically disadvantaged area of West Dallas. There are numerous organizations in this 11 square mile area that are trying to help residents. We can partner with several of these organizations to provide training on finding free authoritative health information. We have existing established relationships or have communicated with a community organization, a public library, a recreation center, and a church to provide health information services to 75212 residents.

Stereolithography SLA technology is an important 3D technology for medicine because of its accuracy and print capabilities. Anatomy modeling and device prototyping pose some challenges to clients currently using our Lulzbot Taz 5 Fused Deposition Modeling FDM 3D printer. While the existing printer has been a wonderful learning and teaching tool, we wish to expand our outreach to the Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program HPREP with a more precise technology that provides for usage and exploration in our Digital Media Production Studio.

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