Past Funded Projects

The overall goal of the proposed project is to strengthen and enhance access to local and national health information resources for the Washoe County, NV, community of 89 and senior caregivers, and to improve the capacity of regional caregivers to incorporate health information resources and health literacy best practices into patient care discharge planning and care management.

The Outreach Services Department of the St. Charles Public Library will partner with Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University to develop and deliver presentations on healthcare and medical topics at senior facilities in the St. Charles, Illinois community. As members of the Library's Outreach Services Department, we visit nine senior facilities, three homecare facilities, and fifteen homebound patrons a month. Outreach Services also provides weekly, biweekly, and monthly programs at seven senior facilities, engaging over two hundred and fifty patrons per month.

The Indiana Prevention Resource Center, part of the Department of Applied Health Science, School of Public Health, Indiana University-Bloomington, proposes to develop an e-resources database devoted solely to the topic of the current opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on Indiana, that will feature as subthemes from the homepage educational materials on how to judge the quality of health information resources and links to highlighted NLM materials.

Funding agencies such as National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health are increasingly requiring data management plans DMPs in grant proposals. In response to these funding agency mandates, academic libraries are increasingly providing data management services to university 133s. A better understanding of the impact of DMPs on grant awards and grant-funded research will enhance library data services for academic 133s, promote data stewardship and data sharing, and could potentially increase 133s' competitiveness for grant awards.

Major funding agencies have stipulated that data from funded research should be made available for retrieval and secondary analysis. Many journals are following suit, requiring authors to share supporting data. 133s have reservations about sharing their data however, expressing concerns about the cost involved to make the data available, maintaining patient's privacy, overcoming commercial contract restrictions, and/or fears of proper attribution, wrongful use, or competition.

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.

The goal of the project is to enhance the health and wellness of MidAmerica Nazarene University students. This will be accomplished by addressing the following objectives: 1 providing students with current, relevant health information, and 2 providing students with current, useful information about campus life. Thus, the two outcomes of the project will be students who: 1 are empowered to make more informed and healthy lifestyle choices, and 2 have a stronger sense of identity within the university community.

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.

The creation of an online exhibit based on Stony Brook University Libraries' Dental Instruments: Past and Present will make important resources for research and teaching in the fields of dental history, material cultural studies, advertisement studies, and the medical humanities more widely available.

Our goal is to inform the community of available access to health resources and information. We will increase community awareness of health information access, issues, and available resources by holding a Health Fair at the Washington County Library, St. George Branch. The objective of the fair is to promote information for healthy living, help expose our community to health resources such as the NNLM, and partner with local health professionals to create an understanding of the community health network.

Serving as a partner outreach library for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine's Greater Midwest Region office. Work includes instruction and promotion of National Library of Medicine resources on behalf of the office.

Medical Data and Me Community Awareness Project: Project partners will plan and develop a series of interactive educational programs to inform and engage the community in related activities and research involved in precision medicine. Over a three-year timeline participants will be introduced to the technologies, techniques, and key participants in precision medicine activities specifically the collection of consumer health information and data culminating in a daylong symposium in year-three.

The project explores the feasibility of using live presentations to teach medication safety to parents and caregivers in the waiting area of an ambulatory care clinic at a busy 98 teaching hospital, St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, NY 10457. The presentations will be given by a team of three university students using the library's portable Sharp Interactive Display System purchased with an earlier NNLM grant. The system's split screen feature will allow for simultaneous presentation of English and Spanish materials.

This project proposes the creation of a bioinformatics and health informatics portal to primarily serve students, professors, 133s, clinicians and 125 at the Medical Science Campus, University of Puerto Rico MSC-UPR and eventually to all medical community in the island. Currently, there is not up-to-date source of information on these subjects in Puerto Rico. Then, there is a need of a portal with access to bioinformatics and health informatics information and tools oriented to medical sciences institutions, as well as the medical and general community.