Past Funded Projects

For ten years the New England Science Boot Camp SBC event has been promoting science literacy among librarians in the Northeast. This is an immersive, two-and-a-half-day event that regularly draws between fifty-five and seventy librarians. One of the ways we promote science literacy is by recording the presentations at Camp and creating interesting and watchable educational videos for both attendees and non-attendees to access after the boot camp event.

Congratulations to Ray County Library for receiving a Library Engagement Technology Funding Award! The goal of this funding project will be for the library to have a more in-depth understanding of the community it serves. This will assist the library as it carries out its mission to inform, inspire and enrich the community. The requested statistical software will allow library staff and Board members to better understand community needs and subsequently allow for more informed decision making regarding library programming and resources.

The Canadian Health Libraries Association Annual Conference presents a unique geographic and professional opportunity for the subawardee to expand their regional network and potential for research, teaching, and learning collaboration The conference will also offer the opportunity to interact with a variety of library vendors. Of specific interest is a full-day 6.5 contact hours continuing education workshop: Text Mining Tools for Search Strategy Development and Research Monitoring.

Congratulations to Levi Dolan for receiving a Professional Development Award for LIS students to attend MCMLA 2019 in Omaha, NE.

Congratulations to Ellie Svoboda for receiving a Professional Development Award for LIS students to attend MCMLA 2019 in Omaha, NE!

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - School of Medicine Libraries will partner with the public libraries in the Rio Grande Valley counties of Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy and Starr to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.

This award is intended to help public libraries support the health information needs of their communities by providing funding for health-related program kits. Program kits should be comprised of health information and can be used for circulation purposes or in direct support of health programs.

The Oklahoma Healthy Aging Initiative OHAI is a program of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Geriatric Medicine. With five Centers of Healthy Aging across the state of Oklahoma, OHAI educates older Oklahomans, Caregivers and Providers in all 77 counties. The Northeast Center of Healthy Aging NE CHA based in Tulsa and was the first of the OHAI centers to open in 2012.

The NNLM Community Engagement Network Ambassador Program: Indianapolis in Indianapolis, IN, will serve as a vital link between the NNLM Community Engagement Network, public libraries, community organizations, and individuals from underrepresented in biomedical research populations across Marion County, Indiana.

The Wayne State University, Vera P. Shiffman Medical Library Shiffman recognizes a significant opportunity in partnering with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM and the NIH Research Program to provide increased and improved access to health related information and services to residents of the Detroit Metro area primarily engaging communities identified as Underrepresented in Biomedical Research UBR by NIH. In order to maximize that opportunity, Shiffman will use grant funding to 1 hire a 50% FTE library assistant, a.k.a.

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.

The Penn State Dining with Diabetes Program is a research-based diabetes management program designed to help participants better understand Type 2 diabetes and its possible health related problems. This community-based education program is offered in 46 Pennsylvania counties and reaches residents, including those who are low-income and undeserved, in these 95, 97, and 98 counties.

In alignment with the goals of the National Network of Libraries of Medicines 2017-2027 strategic plan, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center will design and present personalized and actionable health information to inpatient addiction treatment and recovery providers on promising practices for treating LGBT clients, an underrepresented population experiencing profound disparities. This project will maximize NNLMs impact through enhanced engagement and anticipate the needs of a marginalized population LGBT people seeking addiction treatment.

Rutland Regional Medical Center RRMC is a 144 bed community hospital located in southern Vermont. It is one of two Magnet designated organizations in the state and employs over 500 registered nurses. Grant monies from the NNLM will promote nursing research and advance nursing practice through the support of programs including online webinars and live presentations about library resources.

The NNLM Community Engagement Center CEC will develop strategic, replicable projects that can be pushed out to NNLM members based on outreach projects that have been funded in the past and deemed successful. Strategic, replicable projects that demonstrate how NNLM sets a standard in health information outreach among libraries and stands apart from similar institutions, will be chosen.

Request to attend the Copyrightlaws.com Copyright Leadership Certificate course. Subawardees main purpose of obtaining the Copyright Leadership Certification is to enhance and improve our best practices with copyright

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.

An NNLM Community Engagement grant would support the delivery of Data Navigators 2.0, a high-impact data analytics and visualization course contextualized for healthcare careers and applications and be offered to Providence 87 through our partnership with the Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College Charter High School.

The University of Texas Medical Branch- Moody Medical Library will partner with the public libraries in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.

Instruction is a growing responsibility of academic health sciences librarians, but we rarely have the time, space, and community to take our ideas and notes from the previous year, combine it with the literature, and brainstorm with colleagues. This grant will fund a much-needed opportunity for librarians doing instruction in health sciences, at academic institutions to step away from their day-to-day responsibilities and instead work on instruction-based projects that have built up over the year and intentionally focus on refining their pedagogy.

Congratulations to Taira Meadowcroft from University of Missouri - J. Otto Lottes Library for receiving a professional development award to attend the Library Marketing and Communications Conference! The professional development award was available to librarians or library staff that support marketing efforts in their libraries or organizations. Award recipients will also work with a mentor to receive individualized coaching prior to, during, and after the conference is over to maximize the recipient's learning experience.

Congratulations to Sara K Motsinger from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, DAngelo Library for receiving a professional development award to attend the Library Marketing and Communications Conference which will be held in November 2019 in St. Louis, Missouri. The professional development award was available to librarians or library staff that support marketing efforts in their libraries or organizations.

Pomperaug District Department of Health PDDH will leverage its vast network of community partners to implement a focused outreach program to connect underserved older 88 to MedlinePlus resources in order to curtail opioid dependence and provide alternative strategies for managing chronic pain.

Congratulations to Natalie Newville from the Missouri River Regional Library for receiving a professional development award to attend the Library Marketing and Communications Conference which will be held in November 2019 in St. Louis, Missouri. The professional development award was available to librarians or library staff that support marketing efforts in their libraries or organizations. Award recipients will also work with a mentor to receive individualized coaching prior to, during, and after the conference is over to maximize the recipient's learning experience.

Congratulations to Kristen White from University of Colorado - Strauss Health Sciences Library for receiving a professional development award to attend the Library Marketing and Communications Conference which will be held in November 2019 in St. Louis, Missouri. The professional development award was available to librarians or library staff that support marketing efforts in their libraries or organizations.

Congratulations to Rachelle Brandel from the Ferguson Municipal Public Library for receiving a professional development award to attend the Library Marketing and Communications Conference which will be held in November 2019 in St. Louis, Missouri. The professional development award was available to librarians or library staff that support marketing efforts in their libraries or organizations. Award recipients will also work with a mentor to receive individualized coaching prior to, during, and after the conference is over to maximize the recipient's learning experience.

Graphic medicine, or the overlap of comics and healthcare, has emerged over the past decade from a once small, sporadically discussed idea to a burgeoning field of study and subgenre in its own right. For librarians, the growth of the field - which includes a National Library of Medicine exhibit, "Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn!" - presents numerous opportunities, ranging from reinvigorating interest in physical collections to interactive programming.

Congratulations to MCMLA for receiving a Professional Development Award to fund a virtual MCMLA Book Club! MCMLA will facilitate a virtual book club with 7 participant groups. The book for the group is: "The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias" by Dolly Chugh and Laslo Black.

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM Community Engagement Center CEC has been funded for $71,240 to establish the infrastructure of the NNLM Community Engagement Network CEN. This project would set the NNLM CEN up to effectively move from a pilot project to a sustainable, evidencebased national model with the infrastructure needed to support the goals of the NNLM National Program NP and the Research Program 71. The NNLM CEN is at a critical juncture where community engagement and outreach models and expectations can be standardized based on previous experience.

The NNLM Community Engagement Center CEC has been awarded $92,175 to develop and implement a pilot Consumer Health Community of Practice1 CoP in partnership with an external partner. This CoP will pilot modes and manners of community engaged learning and practice to ultimately positively impact health literacy through health, wellness and the Research Program 71.