Past Funded Projects

We are requesting the Professional Development Award funding to allow us to offer two continuing education courses 'Perspectives in Research Data Management' and 'Data Management for Librarians' at the Joint 2017 Midwest Medical Library Association and Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association Conference being held in October 2017.

I am requesting this award to enable me to attend the October 2017 joint annual conference of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association MLA and the Michigan Health Sciences Library Association MHSLA in Ypsilanti, Michigan. see http://midwestmla.org/conference2017/. I hope to take advantage of one of the continuing education courses, but my primary reason for attending is to pay attention to the preparation, organization, and execution of the meeting itself.

The North Dakota Library Association's Health Science Information Section HSIS will offer free training related to searching for evidence-based medicine. The training will be a one-day workshop version of the popular 'EBM and the Librarian' class taught by Connie Schardt. Attendees will be introduced to the basics of evidence-based medicine and will learn about the role that librarians can play in its practice and instruction.

The Marshall Community Health Library, a consumer health library that serves the public and the local healthcare community, will be hosting a National Library of Medicine NLM traveling exhibition: Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic & Medicine in July and August 2017. This event coincides with the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Marshall library. The exhibition will be used as an opportunity to educate and reach out to people in the local community who may not be aware of Marshall's extensive health information resources.

The Pennsylvania Office of 95 Health PORH is funded by the DentaQuest Institute DQI to deliver the Medical, Oral Expanded MORE Care Collaborative to eight federally-designated 95 Health Clinics RHCs in Pennsylvania and one clinic anticipated to become an RHC in the near future. The Oral Health Education for the Medical Professional and Patient project will facilitate the current project to be expanded to reach more RHCs while further educating medical providers on the oral health resources available to them through NN/LM.

Now in its third year, the Great Lakes Science Boot Camp for Librarians provides affordable educational and networking opportunities for STEM Librarians working in the Greater Midwest Region. The 2017 Science Boot Camp will be hosted at Michigan State University MSU in East Lansing, Michigan from July 19-21 and will build on the success of earlier Boot Camps held at Wayne State University and the University of Notre Dame. The Boot Camp follows an established model consisting of two and a half days of sessions presenting on cutting edge STEM research led by distinguished faculty members.

This four-module pilot curriculum provides the necessary tools for library staff to recognize the health and social challenges facing their most vulnerable patrons, engage with those patrons, and subsequently refer them to appropriate community-based resources. Over the next eight months of this project, we seek to modifythe pilot curriculum and deliver it to staff working in various capacities at the CHLC training site 1, including individuals working in the library, pediatric and adult clinics, and the recreation center.

The Columbia County Traveling Library is working toward doing more community outreach in partnership with area agencies. We hope to outfit our new bookmobile as a mobile classroom that would help us provide outreach and education for the 95 populations we serve, which experience significant health and economic disparities. We already reach more than 500 regular patrons at 49 bookmobile stops. We plan to engage them at this point of contact by offering semi-formal tablet-based trainings on how to use tablets and how to access quality online health information.

Developing a Replicable Model for Health Literacy to Promote Positive Youth Development is a year-long, school-based, in-class, student-centered, experiential, and technology-driven health promotion and disease prevention program being implemented with 9th and 10th graders as well as 3rd, 4th 5th graders at the participating Pittsburgh public inner city schools to create health literate k-12 public school students who are able to access, navigate, obtain and understand health information and use it to make informed decisions about their health.

The Systematic Review Workshop: the Nuts and Bolts for Librarians is a 2.5-day hands-on, in person workshop scheduled from July 17 to July 19, 2017 held at the University of Pittsburgh's Falk Library of the Health Sciences. The aim is to prepare health sciences librarians 'to become a systematic review team collaborator and a facilitator in the systematic review process.' Activities include a mixture of group discussion, interactive lectures, and hands-on exercises. Prior training or experience in systematic reviews is not required.

Attend 'The 9th 94 Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference: Embedding and Embracing Evidence', from June 18 - 21, 2017, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Funding is being requested to support travel costs to serve as a co-presenter with Lydia Collins, Consumer Health Coordinator at NNLM MAR, at the Medical Library Association Annual 2017 conference in Seattle, WA.

The Health Sciences Library at Orlando Health has recently established a collection of lending laptops that are being repurposed for the benefit of hospital team members as a new roving classroom. The laptops are equipped with clinical applications and Microsoft Office applications that can be used to provide classroom instruction for computer literacy and systems training. Currently we do not have a means of transporting the laptops across campus aside from utilizing a regular library book cart.

Outreach is an integral part of The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library and this area of service is overseen by Judith A. Wiener, MA, MLIS, Assistant Director for Collections and Outreach. Several programs and activities are planned throughout the year in order to connect the public with needed reliable health information resources. Attention is also paid to help support professionals in providing such information to their clients, patients, and customers.