Past Funded Projects

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. The overarching aim of the proposal is to apply the expertise of professional health sciences librarians in order to improve access to health information resources, and to increase 95 healthcare professionals engagement with curated online clinical educational materials.

In an effort to expand health care knowledge resulting in improved health information access and delivery to clients, we propose to work with Robert Morris University, School of Nursing and Health Sciences and the School of Education and Social Sciences, to provide information relating to the potential health effects of exposure to shale gas development to individuals in proximity to these activities. To achieve this goal, we will work with Nursing and Psychology faculty and students B.S.N., M.S.N., D.N.P.; and B.S., M.S.

The explosion of digital technologies in the 21st Century has not only transformed the ways in which we learn, communicate, and live, but also created a public need for evidence-based answers on how we can mindfully incorporate media and technology into our lives.

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 Medicine NLM and the Massachusetts Health Council MHC to increase nursing representation on School Wellness Committees to influence school policies addressing health issues that impact student health and wellness.

The RCS Community Library will invite students to engage with high quality health information though MedlinePlus in the process of creating graphic novels using the Graphic Medicine Comic or zine Creation Program. This experience will improve their awareness of quality resources and allow them to share their new knowledge with family and community members in person and through a showcase of their work at the Library.

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 local high schools to deliver substance abuse education and health literacy instruction to the students in six area high schools. A full-day, interactive curriculum will be provided to students on the WSU campus and will use NLM resources to support students in learning how to make healthy choices and be drug free.

Confronting the Opioid Crisis: A School-based Education Outreach Program will enable a cohort of high school students to access biomedical and health information, learn about the prevalence of this epidemic in their neighborhoods, communities and county, the health consequences, and steps needed to reduce its impact especially on school students. Program will address the current efforts being used to save lives and resources available to them if they need treatment.

The Lancaster Community Library is partnering with the Lions Club to present two programs for our community, series title Community Health Awareness Series. The first program on diabetes will be presented by Nurse Practioner Sheila Branson. The second program on antibiotic resistance will be presented by retired dentist Dr. John Tollner. With these two programs we plan to educate our citizens about diabetes prevention, and raise the awareness of the problem of antibiotic resistant infections.

Congratulations to Julie Abbott! She will be joining HOSA Students and Advisers in attending MCMLA in Omaha, NE.

Congratulations to Buffy Blunck! She will be joining HOSA Students and Advisers in attending MCMLA in Omaha, NE.

Congratulations to Cynthia Cox! She will be joining HOSA Students and Advisers in attending MCMLA in Omaha, NE.

Congratulations to Trudy Pecorelli! She will be joining HOSA Students and Advisers in attending MCMLA in Omaha, NE.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

95 populations face unique challenges in meeting health and wellness goals including a lack of proximity to healthcare facilities, high chronic disease burden, and poverty. 95 residents are also less likely than metropolitan residents to participate in clinical research trials, which can widen the disparities in treatment and interventions that meet their needs.

For the students of Springfield Technical Community College STCC, the cost of an education continues to be a significant issue. More than half of STCC students receive Pell Grants for low-income students. In addition to the cost of tuition, fees, transportation to and from school, and basic living costs, students also struggle with the cost of textbooks and course materials. The cost is significantly high for students looking to train in the health sciences, where an individual textbook can cost more than $200.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

The OHSU Photo Diversity Repository Project arises from an identified need for teachers of health professions students to help their students visualize pathophysiological conditions in diverse populations. The proposed project will build on OHSU Librarys existing Digital Asset Management System DAM, a central and secure repository for images created by staff and faculty, to create a separate collection that will contain diverse digital images for educational use.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

The Healthy Communities in Fulton County, Illinois HCFCI project is a collaboration between the University of Illinois at Chicagos Library of the Health Sciences in Peoria UIC LHSP, the Western Illinois Universitys School of Nursing WIU SON, and public libraries in Fulton County. In this project, librarians, nursing professors, and nursing students will work with public libraries to provide health fairs for the public.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program CDSMP is a low-cost evidence based intervention developed by Dr. Kate Lorig through the Stanford University School of Medicine. People with different chronic health problems attend together in a patient-centered environment. The program promotes self-efficacy and education through interactive peer-support.

Congratulations to Inakhshmi Rashid! She will be joining HOSA Students and Advisers in attending MCMLA in Omaha, NE.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC Health Sciences Library HSL, part of the University Libraries, will implement a training program for library staff, students, and the public using and adapting the NNLM Engage for Health curriculum, and the Middle Atlantic Region of NNLMs class, entitled, Patient Empowerment: Using Health Information Resources to Improve Health Communication.

This project aims to increase the knowledge of suicide prevention and 101 and raise awareness and use of National Library of Medicine resources among Community Health Workers CHWs, students enrolled in Dona Ana Community College's CHW certificate program, and community members who will ultimately benefit.

The Charlotte Library & the Carpenter-Carse Library recently finished a very successful series as part of our first Supporting Healthy Communities from Head to Toe project. We seek funding to continue these efforts, based on demonstrated and expressed community need as well as increasing evidence of the use of libraries as places for public access to and conversations about health issues. In our community, mental health issues and climate change concerns have risen to the top as areas of interest and apprehension.

This project will focus on two 98 agencies in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, whose primary clientele are 98 dwellers who are socioeconomically challenged and lack access to appropriate and understandable opioid information. The partner agencies are Center of Hope and South Dakota 98 Indian Health with whom Health Connect of South Dakota has strong, long collaborative relationships. The overarching goals of the project: 1 train partner agency staff on opioid use and misuse using educational materials from the National Library of Medicine and publications from national companies i.e.

MINDfest was designed to create a comfortable and engaging environment for community members, as well as mental health professionals, to connect and share information regarding mental wellness. The festival includes vendors from a broad spectrum of health and wellness organizations who host booths for guests to learn about local resources and opportunities. Each vendor is asked to provide an activity or service in addition to informational brochures or pamphlets in order to better engage guests and help destigmatize the seeking of mental health information.

This proposal aims to create awareness and education capacity to utilize health information by providing access, resources and knowledge to amputees, caregivers and health care professionals on how to live healthier lives after limb loss. To reach out to and empower people affected by limb loss to achieve their full potential through education, support and advocacy, and to promote limb loss prevention.

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 patients. Effective communication is achieved through what Michael J. Green and Kimberly Myers call graphic pathography, personal narratives describing the experience of being ill. Like other forms of fiction, they encourage empathy and lessen feelings of isolation in the reader.

The NNLM Community Engagement Center CEC has been awarded an amount of $181,857 to pilot a human genetics program-in-a-kit film series, in cooperation with the Iowa Institute of Human Genetics IIHG, for public libraries. The NNLM will send approximately 250 film kits to small and 95 libraries, in cooperation with the Association of 95 and Small Libraries ARSL and the Public Libraries Association PLA. The purpose of this activity is to educate the public about human genetics, raise awareness of the NIH Research Program 71 and encourage public libraries to become members of NNLM.