Past Funded Projects

The Cushing Center, which opened in 2010, brought renewed attention to the materials within Harvey Cushing's collections, which include, beyond the Registry, over 200 boxes of archival material, made available through an online finding aid http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0160. The brains and tumors are being used in research again, including genetic sequencing of 20 specimens related to acromegaly, gigantism, and Cushing's disease.

Systematic Reviews: Opportunities for Librarians provides information professionals with foundational knowledge about systematic reviews and an opportunity to engage in high-level discussions about involvement in such projects. The course runs on a flipped classroom model where didactic material is presented in an asynchronous online format over a period of two weeks and is followed closely by an intensive two day in-person workshop.

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.

The use of institutional repositories is becoming more common in health care universities. The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine PCOM Library has an institutional repository IR, the DigitalCommons@PCOM. The PCOM Library must ensure that 133s, faculty, and students want to use open access resources and submit articles, posters, and other materials to the DigitalCommons@PCOM by educating them about publication policies, author rights, and open access.

The National Center for Farmworker Health proposes to develop a one stop health education website and training guide designed to increase the awareness and utilization of Spanish language Medline Plus, NCFH health education tools, and other patient education health resources by targeted staff at Community/Migrant Health Centers. These health centers play a critical role in providing primary healthcare services to the migrant and seasonal agricultural worker population, one of the most disenfranchised and vulnerable populations in the United States.

Restored Generation, Inc. will provide classes to a targeted youth minority primareily African-American population in 95 and low-income communities to train them on how to access and use quality health information to make better health decisions for healthier lifestyles.

In cooperation with the Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home in Augusta, Georgia, the 'Assessing the Health Information Seeking Behaviors and Needs of Nurses in Skilled Nursing Facilities' project will assess the information seeking practices as well as information and educational needs of nurses working in the long-term care environment with frail elderly patients. Assessments will be performed utilizing both questionnaires and observations of the nurses on the floor in the care facility across all three shifts.

This project proposes the use of funds to cover the costs associated with hiring a trained website designer to enhance the design and navigation of a publically available website that provides access to free and open access resources for unaffiliated public health and primary care providers. The 'Common Wealth of Public Health and Primary Care Information' website has been actively maintained by VCU Libraries since 2010. Minimal website design changes have occurred to the website since a 2011 platform migration to LibGuides 2.0.

University of North Dakota UND Health Sciences Library librarians will develop or select appropriate information needs assessment tools and methods to assess the information needs of unaffiliated North Dakota 95 health professionals. After Institutional Review Board approval is received, 95 health professionals will be invited to share their perspectives regarding their information needs. The project team will assess the data received and complete a final report summarizing the data analysis process and findings.

The purpose of this project is to increase access, knowledge, skills, and use of library resources that can help support the health of immigrant Micronesian families. The Hawaiian State Public Library System HSPLS will work with the Kapiolani Pediatric Clinic to create a simple new library card program that starts at the clinic, and also includes easy to understand resources about the services and programs that are available.

It is often said that if you want to be healthy, choose your parents wisely. We know that persons with disabilities, or as we prefer, persons who are differently abled, come in all forms and sizes, with many different conditions. We also know that at some point in our lives, we will be differently abled as well. Since we can't choose our parents, we must rely on the choices that are available to us.

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.

Provision of accurate online resources is a valuable tool in designing programs aimed at assisting 95 consumers in making informed decisions about their health and to communicate effectively with health professionals. Through Project Connections, consumers will receive instant access to online health information and resources from the National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus, including medical journals,clinical guidelines, and databases encompassing the world's knowledge about conditions and diseases, as well as patient-oriented materials and online interactive communities.

The Community Health Education Center CHEC is a library for patients and their family members located in a large academic medical center. CHEC provides patients and their family members with reliable health information written at a level they can understand. In addition to providing patients with health information, The CHEC librarian plans to provide a day-long consumer health information symposium aimed at local public librarians. Public librarians often serve patrons requesting health information. The symposium will provide an overview of CHEC resources.