Past Funded Projects

The Network of the National Library of Medicine NNLM is partnering with the Research Program 71 to provide resources for NNLM members to support their communities as they access and use health information online and participate in medical research studies, particularly . A key component of this partnership is the goal of reaching people who are on the other side of the digital divide. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the widening digital divide. According to the Pew Research Center, roughly half of U.S.

The NNLM CEC is requesting $103,417 to pilot the Precision Medicine & the Future of Health Care: an NNLM Traveling Exhibit & Speaker Program herein known as the NNLM Precision Medicine Exhibit. The purpose of this project is to make an exhibit kit available to participating NNLM Community Engagement Network CEN Partner Library Organizations and to engage public libraries in a National Institutes of Health NIH Research Program 71 regional campaign location.

The NEO will support evaluation activities related to the three NNLM cores. In addition, the NEO will collaborate with the RMLs to build evaluation skill and capacity among Network members. The specific aims of the NEO are the following: 1. Support the National Network Steering Committee's ability to make data-driven decisions about the direction of the NNLM program. 2. Collaborate with RML staff members to enhance their use of evaluation for their own programs and promote evaluation among Network members.

The NN/LM Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Plan the Plan is fundamental to NLM's document delivery system and provides a foundation upon which the NDCO will deliver service and evaluation. The NDCO will implement the Plan with the cooperation of the RMLs, fulfilling its objectives and ensuring that all partners NLM, the NDCO, the RMLs, Resource Libraries, and all DOCLINE participants are aware of their responsibilities as outlined in the Plan and are capable of fulfilling them. NDCO will use these responsibilities as a rubric upon which to base evaluation of service.

For this project MLA will transfer, review, and revise five disaster information classes to the MLA learning management system to sustain the availability of courses to support the Disaster Information Specialization.

The South Central Region SCR of the Network of the National Library of Medicine will partner with the Training and Education Center TEC to develop and pilot the digital format of the Game of Health. The South Central Region created the Game of Health to provide public libraries with a fun interactive game to introduce patrons to trusted health information resources. The Game of Health is currently only available in a physical format.

This project will provide quality virtual information related to health and wellness privacy and literacy that librarians can use to better serve their communities. We will present this information as a series of four webinars for public library workers. We will also create high-quality informational resources which will form part of the webinar content but will also be designed to be shared on library social media at other times. Authoritative information about health and wellness privacy is both timely and in-demand.

This project will provide resources and educational opportunities that highlight the benefits of collaboration between public health organizations and public libraries. Phase I of the project will encompass two steps: 1. assessment and 2. resource identification.

Phase II of the Information Collaboration project will focus on developing and implementing a training and outreach program that targets the public library and public health workforce. The goal of the program will be to foster sustainable partnerships aimed at improving the publics health through information access. The development of this project will be informed by the data collected and analyzed during the Phase I project.

The Network of the National Library of Medicine NNLM will partner with Paula Mozen, Director of Life Interrupted https://lifeinterruptedfilm.com/ a documentary film featuring empowering stories of breast cancer survivors told from the survivors perspective to offer a series of virtual film screenings and panel discussions that increase awareness and understanding of the broad impact of breast cancer on communities who are underrepresented in biomedical research UBR, connect precision medicine and medical research with finding cures and treatmen

According to the West Virginia Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, West Virginia ranked 1st in the nation, for the prevalence of poor physical health, poor mental health, and activity limitations due to poor physical or mental health. West Virginia is also 1st in the nation in the occurrence of obesity and cardiovascular disease. West Virginia ranks 2nd highest nationally in the incidence of diabetes. When considering healthcare, West Virginia ranks first or second in poor health care.

The purpose is to increase the access of Spanish-speaking Latinos in the Kansas City area to reliable health information in their language, inform them about existing resources, and develop a sense of trust between them, the medical community and librarians.

The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences HLHS, University of Iowa will assist the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NN/LM, a program of the National Library of Medicine NLM with its mission of advancing the progress of medicine and improving the health of the public by: 1 providing all U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and, 2 improving the public's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health.

Kina Together will serve Native Americans Ojibwe in northern Minnesota. This project has been developed through partnerships between the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Campus UMMS Duluth, Department of Biomedical Sciences BMS and Bois Forte Health and Human Services, Oshki Ogimaag Charter School located on Grand Portage Reservation, and ISD #361 Indian Education Program, 94 Falls, Minnesota. All the communities are served are severely underserved and lie in remote areas of the state.