Past Funded Projects

Exhibit at Louisiana Library Association 2017 Annual Conference

The aims of this project are to equip the health sciences librarians at the University of North Dakota with technology that will improve their ability to 1 participate in online training opportunities that require telephone participation and 2 to participate in online videoconferencing from their workstations in open-office floorplans.

This project will bring the Association of College & Research Libraries' workshop 'Building your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work' to Spokane, Washington on April 10, 2017. This will train regional academic and hospital librarians serving expanding medical programs and growing research needs involving 95 populations. This award will fund workshop fees, travel and lodging expenses for two invited speakers, host facility fees and materials.

Applicant will attend the Institute in Evidence-Based Practice, an intensive 3-day introductory course that teaches medical librarians the skills they need to support evidence-based practice at their institutions. The knowledge I gain through this course will improve her ability to educate students and assist faculty at the new medical school opening at her institution in the fall of 2017.

This project will utilize the requested interactive smart board to introduce patients and/or family members to MedlinePlus resources. This will be done by integrating the resources into existing curricula. Current educational programs do not include MedlinePlus resources. Focusing on dental education, NLM's MedlinePlus resources will be chosen according to age and health issue. The 86's dental health program will incorporate MedlinePlus's games and videos.

An important aim of the NN/LM PNR application for the 2016-2021 is to support collaborations in the Pacific Northwest Region that foster effective use of current, high quality, information and decision support resources by health professionals, by students in the health professions, and by patients in order to treat the commonly encountered medical conditions in 95 and underserved populations in Oregon.

The purpose of this project is to advance health literacy capacity and to improve clinical information discovery skills of health professionals in Eastern Washington. The targeted health professionals work in clinics, in long- term care facilities, and in schools in Eastern Washington.

Federal mandates as well as standards outlined by the Joint Commission regarding the provision of adequate care to Limited English Proficiency LEP patients require that University of Virginia UVA clinicians be informed about information resources that will be helpful to this population. MedlinePlus, MedlinePlus in Spanish, and the website, Health Information in Multiple Languages, can provide patients and clinicians access to quality online health information. Hospital interpreters are also essential to the provision of quality care to LEP patients.

The number of health science librarians in Georgia has slowly decreased over the past decade which has been reflected in the membership of both the Georgia Health Sciences Library Association GHSLA and the Atlanta Health Science Librarians Consortium AHSLC. In 2015 GaIN, Georgia Interactive Network, dissolved and left many hospital libraries without access to resources and networking opportunities with other librarians in the state.

The goal of this proposed project is to promote evidence-based practice in healtcare management by providing an educational program on evidence-based management {EBMgt for health administrators in the Pacific Northwest Region. The objectives of the education program are 1 to increase health administrator knowledge in EBMgt principles and processes in healthcare management; 2 to increase health administrator skills in information searching and access; and 3 to gain health administrator confidence in the implementation of EBMgt in decision-making within their healthcare organizations.

Dahlgren Memorial Library DML at Georgetown University Medical Center GUMC plans to seek funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern/Atlantic Region NNLM SEA for a project designed to deploy and assess the utility of iPad Mini tablet devices for use by 5 residents in the Neurosurgery Residency Training Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital MGUH in Washington, DC. When the iPad mini devices were released by Apple, Inc.

Health Information outreach and exhibiting in the greater Detroit area for underserved and underrepresented populations. *Host NLM traveling exhibit Confronting Violence, Improving 92's Lives March 18-April 22, 2017 at the Shiffman Medical Library. *World AIDS Day Detroit:

Health Literacy and 89: An Age Friendly Approach to Health Information: This half day symposium will help health and social service professionals learn more about the impact health literacy has on health outcomes for 89; and provide training in health literacy best practices for finding, creating and evaluating health information materials for people age 60 and older.

The primary goal of this project Goal 1 is to expand interlibrary loan outreach to physician members of the Tulsa County Medical Society TCMS. A secondary goal of this project Goal 2 is to complete a digitization project begun several years ago to digitize the Tulsa County Medical Society Bulletin see the existing digitized volumes of the journal at the library's ContentDM instance here: http://cdm16355.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15229qs.