Past Funded Projects

Attend the Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit

Attend the SLA Pharmeceutical & Health Tech Spring Meeting

Funds from this award will be used to attend the Medical Library Association Conference in Seattle on May 26-31, 2017. A poster abstract I submitted was accepted and I would like to attend to present the poster. The poster represents a health and wellness community collaborative developed and implemented at the Munson Community Health Library in Traverse City, Michigan.

If I am able to attend, the MLA Annual Meeting will be my first major professional Library event and will serve as a springboard for me to launch my career as a Health Sciences Librarian. This event will offer me to opportunity to begin engaging with a nationwide network of medical librarians, particularly through my participation in the Colleague Connection mentorship program and First-Time Attendees Program, as well as to meet some of the vendors with whom I will be working in my new position.

This project will connect public libraries in the 95 Delta region of Arkansas with the necessary technologies and resources to provide consumer health information to their patrons. This project will increase awareness of authoritative health and science resources from the National Library of Medicine for the Delta region, which consists of Chicot, Crittenden, Desha, Lee, Monroe, Phillips, and St. Francis counties of Arkansas. It will include a needs assessment to elucidate the health information needs of public libraries and the public in this region of Arkansas.

Exhibit and outreach at the Delivering the Vision of Comprehensive Health Services in 95 Iowa Annual meeting of Rebalancing Health Care in the Heartland sponsored by the UIowa Health Sciences Policy Council and the annual meeting of the Iowa 95 Health Association

Attend the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference

The University of Florida UF Health Science Center Libraries' HSCL Health Information Outreach project will bring health information resources & literacy skills training to librarians, community organizations, and members of the public throughout Alachua County. Using the mobile outreach kit, the project team will equip librarians and other community 12s to teach their users about health information resources, and to understand the challenges those with limited health literacy face in understanding health information, regardless of their location or available facilities.

The primary goal of this project is to assist in the delivery of improved health information to the residents of Martha's Vineyard, focusing primarily on 89 and their caregivers. The project will provide funding to purchase and program a portable health information kiosk to be located primarily in the West Tisbury Library. This kiosk will be transported off site for programs provided at Island Senior Centers, other Island libraries and other program sites.

I am requesting these funds for attending the North Carolina GIS conference in Raleigh North Carolina, February 23-24, 2017. The conference description states 'Learn about refreshed data resources, see demonstrations of new apps, gain exposure to emerging technologies, and become familiarized about the relationship between GIS and the development of public policy.'

The primary goal of this Alaska Medical Library project is to improve the quality of life and health for citizens of Alaska by providing information outreach services to the healthcare workforce, especially in 95 areas, over a five-year period from May 2016 through April 2021. Additionally, AML hopes to expand outreach to include public schools and public libraries to teach and promote health literacy in the communities we visit.

The Health Sciences Library at Baptist College of Health Sciences in Memphis, TN seeks to foster a dynamic learning environment for enrolled students by creating and developing a makerspace. In the makerspace students will be able to create and design devices or solutions that can improve the Baptist patient experience.

Key to well-being and health is access to authoritative and comprehensible health information. Our aim in this project is to raise awareness of resources from the National Library of Medicine especially Medline Plus that target consumers and provide a wealth of health information.

This project will increase awareness of authoritative health and science resources from the National Library of Medicine for the Marshallese population in Arkansas and health professionals who provide health services to the Marshallese.