Past Funded Projects

By obtaining extra laptops the ASSIST Volunteers, as well as the Community Resource Partners, will have the ability to connect more Care Receivers to community resources using technology that they may be unable to afford or navigate on their own. In this way, ASSIST can increase their effectiveness in their outreach to the needy in 95 Flathead County

The Public Library Association PLA will educate PLA members and other public library staff about implicit bias's connection to health equity and foster a deeper understanding of health literacy as a tool to address health equity within vulnerable communities. We will do this through multiple continuing education and promotional activities, including an Institute at the ALA 2019 Midwinter Meeting, a webinar, a Public Libraries journal article or other publication such as Quick Reads and podcast, and more.

The goal of the project is to obtain extra laptops so the ASSIST Volunteers, as well as the Community Resource Partners, will have the ability to connect more Care Receivers to community resources using technology that they may be unable to afford or navigate on their own. In this way, ASSIST can increase their effectiveness in their outreach to the needy in 95 Flathead County. The main audience to benefit from our proposed technology improvements will be the Care Receivers. Care Receivers are previous patients who have been discharged from the hospital and are now in their home.

Attend the Transforming Research Conference, being held September 26-27, 2019 in Washington DC. As a library professional this conference provides an opportunity to engage in discussions into practices, policies, and methods that will enable 133s understand its own impact. This conference attracts people from a wide variety of disciplines academic librarians, library administrators, 133s, curators, and representatives from different institutions.

Exhibit at the Tennessee Public Health Association Annual Conference

Research shows Native Americans continue to fall far behind all other ethnic groups in King County, Washington, with regards to health care disparities. Poor outcome indicators, in high rates of heart disease, diabetes, mental health, and violence, are among signicant consequences. Among a short list of prioritized new directions, three planning goals define our approach to providing health awareness and the acquisition to health care resources.

LSU Health Shreveport has a unique way of reaching the people attending this conference and engaging them because of our Amazing Captain Fit. This is a fantastic opportunity to hand out materials to a diverse population.

Congratulations to Samantha Kennefick! She was awarded a Professional Development Award for LIS students to attend MCMLA 2019 in Omaha, NE.

Citizen Science Game Day is a project for public libraries and other NNLM members to promote citizen science and to engage with library users. The project includes an embeddable Project Finder that libraries can implement on their websites.

This course is a three-day session held at Northwestern Universitys Galter Health Sciences Library, where 25 librarians and research professionals will come together to learn from experts in using publication and citation-based statistics that are being brought in from Leiden Universitys Centre for Science and Technology Studies CWTS. The information page for the course is at https://www.cwts.nl/education/bibliometrics-and-scientometrics-for-rese….

Exhibit at Remote Area Medical RAM Clinic, Wise, VA

Professional Development Award to attend NNLM Seminar on Consumer Health 6/21/2019

Professional Development Award to attend NNLM Seminar on Consumer Health 6/21/2019

Professional Development Award to attend Library Institute of the Oregon Library Association LIOLA June 18-21

Professional Development Award to attend NNLM Seminar on Consumer health 6/21/2019

Professional Development Award to attend NNLM Seminar on Consumer Health 6/21/2019

The conference is the 2019 Northern California/Nevada Medical Library Group and the Medical Library Group of Southern California/Arizona Joint Meeting, with a conference theme of Critical Health Sciences Librarianship: Examining our Role in Social Justice. Attending this conference will meet institutional goals in several ways. System Library Services serves all of Providence St. Joseph Health, including our California locations. As the Digital Asset Librarian I manage our institutional repository and research metric tracking, including for California.

The NLM traveling exhibit Graphic Medicine: Ill Conceived and Well-Drawn! will be hosted at the East Tennessee State University Medical Library in Johnson City, TN from April 29, 2019-June 8, 2019. The exhibit consists of 6 banners on stands. From the exhibit's website: "Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn! explores an increasingly popular, yet little-known literary field that presents personal illness narratives and health information through the medium of comics.

The Making County-Level Health Data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable FAIR Initiative will consist of three phases in order to establish and sustain an online interface for local health professionals and librarians to access and analyze county-level health assessment data, as well as educate these individuals on utilizing this resource and creating their own data management plans.

Award to attend May 6-9, 2018 United States Public Health Service Annual Symposium in Minneapolis, MN

Attend the Managing from the Middle Symposium at the Medical Library Association 2019 Annual Meeting. The Symposium covers topics relevant to medical library leaders including diversity and inclusion, crafting compelling communications, leading during times of change, and navigating difficult relationships.

The Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System CEFLS in Plattsburgh, New York is seeking an award to raise awareness regarding the topic of domestic violence among residents in Clinton, Essex, and Franklin counties. CEFLS plans to collaborate with STOP Domestic Violence to coordinate a series of events in our shared service area.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education ACGME requires each institution with a graduate medical education training program to make available adequate resources for fellow education. For nephrology training programs, a meeting room with visual and other educational aids is required. The nephrology fellowship program offers didactic sessions to the fellows in a conference room without a TV, and a small whiteboard for projection.

As part of the Professional Services Agreement, the Contractor agrees to provide the following services related to health information outreach: Exhibiting - Exhibit at Illinois conferences and meetings relevant to health information outreach on behalf of the GMR, highlighting NLM/NIH resources and those of the contracting institution. Instruction - As requested, provide health information instruction to members of the Contractor's greater community.

Through the Arizona Outreach Subaward, the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library UAHSL will execute a variety of activities designed to reach out to various communities in our largely 95, highly diverse state. Of particular interest are 126s and public health workers; 'promotores de salud'; K-12 students; Hispanic, Native American, and border populations; public librarians especially in 95 areas; and individuals and communities who experience disparities in health care.

Funding is requested for Alison Wessel and Bethany Geleskie to attend the Maryland and Delaware Library Association's annual conference.

The Expanding Research Data Management Proposal seeks to offer training on the research data management lifecycle to librarians and 133s. The training courses will be offered by librarians at the Health Sciences Libraries HSL at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities who have a breadth and depth of knowledge to support this work, with experience related to data curation, data management, federal funding compliance, and research reproducibility See Appendix for Description of Setting and Summary of Librarian Expertise.

Technology with the Times will allow more access to technology improving the knowledge of staff, patients, and parents/caregivers at a large occupational therapy practice. This will improve the treatment of patients, the sharing of information, and facilitate increased collaboration and education of staff, patients, and families. Through a home program development, work with families, and staff training information from the National Library of Medicine will be more efficiently and effectively shared.

The Southeastern New York Library Resources Council SENYLRC proposes to raise awareness of unbiased and free health information available on the web from the National Library of MedicineNLM to school nurses and librarians in their region. They will do this through a series of live presentations along with a webinar for future reference and review. Southeastern's region consists of five BOCES Boards of Cooperative Educational Services. Within each BOCES are public school districts. Southeastern's BOCES are located in six counties in the Hudson Valley.

The project will promote the opening of the new library space would build on the momentum already generated this year and extend the reach of library service to team members not currently aware of its benefits. An additional emphasis on promoting free resources from the National Library of Medicine during the opening day event will further give team members tools to support their patients and thus improve health outcomes across the institution.