Past Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| ACRL Immersion Program, Intentional Teaching |
Funding will support attendance at the ACRL Immersion Program and improve information access by helping librarians be more effective and intentional teachers. |
$1,500 |
| Assessing Information Seeking with Technology (AssIST) |
A critical component of the ACGME Practice-based Learning competency is appraisal and assimilation of scientific literature (EBM); yet, several studies have shown that residents rarely use evidence |
$9,894 |
| BQSIMB Health Sciences Librarians Clinical Resources Awareness |
The BQSIMB Health Sciences Librarians group will use funding to provide copies of the spiral pocketbook, Clinical Resources from the National Library of Medicine to its membership. |
$3,300 |
| Clinical eCompanion: information for primary care: a validation project |
Funds will support the validation of an information tool, ?Clinical eCompanion: information for primary care,? to answer clinicians? patient care questions at the point of care. |
$3,814 |
| Cooking for Good Health and Happiness 2015 |
In a second year of this popular interactive program, instructors will create new menus and update online exercises, introducing a maximum of 20 older adults to healthy cooking techniques and free |
$3,000 |
| Developing a Replicable Model for Health Literacy to Promote Positive Youth Development |
The Health Literacy and Positive Youth Development: An Interdisciplinary Approach, is a school-based, in-class, student-centered, interactive, experiential, and technology-based health promotion an |
$15,000 |
| Embedded Librarians Integrating 3D Printing Technology into Master?s Level Health Science Courses |
In order to increase collaboration between librarians and faculty in the School of Health Sciences and to allow our students to explore the use of technology to improve patient care, we propose the |
$9,884 |
| Emergency Preparedness for Libraries and Communities in Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties |
The Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System (CEFLS) in Plattsburgh, New York is committed to fostering and improving public library service to the residents in the System area through resource sharin |
$3,972 |
| Encountering Wellness in the Community: A Health Fair |
Reach Up, Inc. will host a health fair in partnership with the Carnegie Free Library of Swissvale. |
$2,945 |
| Engaging a Consultant to Create a Plan for Marketing the Health Sciences Library |
We will engage a consultant to help us create a practical plan for marketing the library. |
$3,000 |
| Engaging Assessment to Show Value and Make Decisions: Making the Case for Your Library |
Funding will support the UNYOC Chapter of MLA to offer this CE at the annual meeting and introduce participants to assessment that may be applied to library services. |
$1,500 |
| Festival of Genomics |
Funds will support professional development attendance at the Festival of Genomics. |
$1,500 |
| Greater Pittston Health Awareness Fair |
A Greater Pittston Area Health Fair will be sponsored by the Pittston Memorial Library with the involvement of at least 20 local organizations. |
$2,900 |
| Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library |
The NLM traveling exhibition Harry Potter?s World will be installed on the main concourse of the Central Library in downtown Buffalo, NY. |
$650 |
| Health Information Literacy On-the-Go: iPads for the Health Sciences |
The John J. |
$9,867 |
| Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Education |
Funds will support attendance at the Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians and improve information access services at the different branches of the NYU Health Sciences. |
$1,500 |
| Levy Library Disaster Ready Day Workshop |
The goals of this workshop are to create a general awareness of the need for emergency preparedness planning among Levy Library staff, especially among library leadership. |
$608 |
| Libraries as Lifeboats: Communities in Crisis |
The idea behind this proposal is to pay-forward the information and inspiration received at the Pathways to Normalcy pre-conference session at the NYLA annual conference in October, while adding an |
$3,800 |
| Licensed to ILL: Giving interlibrary loan a boost |
Funding will support purchase of ILL equipment to increase access to information and promote and expand Loansome Doc services to unaffiliated users. |
$10,000 |
| Love Yourself: building awareness of body image & sharing resources at the Health & Wellness Center |
The Health and Wellness Center at St. |
$3,000 |