Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Resources for Alaska's Healthcare Providers and Public Libraries: Outreach in the Last Frontier Y4 | The primary goal of the 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 rural areas, o |
$40433 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Leadership Training of Iowa Families of Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs To Promote Self-Efficacy | The Iowa Family Leadership Training Institute (IFLTI) is a four-session, in-person training designed to develop the leadership skills of emerging family leaders who are parents of Iowa children and yo |
$15301 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Dementia & “All of Us” Research Awareness Project for Public Libraries | The Dementia & “All of Us” Research Awareness project embodies the NNLM “All of Us” Public Library Partnership Award mission in two vital ways. |
$19525 |
2019 to 2020 |
| High School Education Day for Substance Abuse Prevention | Wright State University (WSU) librarians, along with faculty and graduate students from the Boonshoft School of Medicine (BSOM) and College of Education and Human Services (CEHS), will partner with lo |
$10000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Understanding Rates of Attrition in Biomedical Data Challenges: A Study of Failure | Biomedical data challenges are interdisciplinary live or virtual competitive events that require participants to analyze big biomedical data and develop prototype solutions to real-world problems that |
$20000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| The Interactive County-Level FAIR Health Data Web Tool for Librarians & Health Professionals Initiative | The Interactive County-Level Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) Health Data Web Tool for Librarians & Health Professionals Initiative will consist of 4 phases to establish an |
$20000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Creating Ready-Made Health Education Toolkits | The Oakland University William Beaumont (OUWB) School of Medicine Medical Library and Auburn Hills Public Library established a health literacy educational outreach partnership in August 2018. |
$19994 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Awareness August | Twinsburg Public Library will host three speaker programs and share posts on social media including Facebook and Pinterest in the month of August to help focus on three issues that have impacted the c |
$6380 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Healthy Communities in Fulton County, Illinois (HCFCI) | The Healthy Communities in Fulton County, Illinois (HCFCI) project is a collaboration between the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Library of the Health Sciences in Peoria (UIC LHSP), the Western I |
$15736 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Iowa Public Health Research Center (IPHRC) at Allen College - Phase II | Allen College, UnityPoint Health is a regionally-accredited, private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in Waterloo, Iowa. |
$11516 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Gathering Welcome: Creating a Curriculum to Teach Health Literacy to Immigrant and Refugee Women | Margaret Zimmerman, an Assistant Professor with the University of Iowa’s (UI) School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) requests a grant for a second iteration of her pilot program to develop a |
$9828 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust – Phase II | “Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust” will continue to help persons from underrepresented populations better access, identify, and use reliable health information on the internet. |
$49986 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Mino Izhiwebzi | Mino Izhiwebzi (“Good Health”) serves Native Americans (Ojibwe) Elders of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa. |
$49993 |
2019 to 2020 |
| JABSOM Library Collections Development Project | The goal of this project is to build a collection of graphic medicine novels for community outreach to a nearby local homeless shelter and to enrich the education of medical students, physicians, and |
$1284 |
2019 to 2020 |
| University of the Pacific: Rite Aid Information Commons Workshops | A set of workshops will be offered to the population at the Deuel Vocational Institution. |
$400 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Using Virtual Reality & 3D Technologies to Expand the Health Professions Pipeline in Southern Nevada | The Jay Sexter Library, together with the Office of Academic Services and Institutional Support (OASIS), within the Department of Student Affairs (DOSA) at Touro University Nevada (TUN), strives to ed |
$12000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| REACH: Resources, Education, and Access for Community Health | In the Show Low, AZ, region there are barriers in receiving relevant, factual information that relates to overall health and wellness. |
$12000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Reshaping a Health Information Clearinghouse to Improve User Experience and Outcomes of Rural Primary Healthcare Providers | This proposal reflects a partnership between the Savitt Medical Library at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the Office of Statewide Initiatives, University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine. |
$12000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Vernon Walks: Promoting Health Literacy and Community Fitness in Vernon/Rockville | The Rockville Public Library and its partners, The Vernon Senior Center, The Vernon Housing Authority, and the Rockville General Hospital, seek to improve health outcomes for adult residents living ac |
$4444 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Promoting Health Literacy to Influence Health and Wellness of Students in the Community: Widening the Connections 2019-2020 | The Massachusetts Action Coalition (MAAC) proposes to build on and expand the outcomes of our initial Innovations Fund award that has developed an innovative partnership with the National Libraries of |
$25000 |
2019 to 2020 |