Past Funded Projects

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

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources.

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

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.

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources.

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

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.

Rural areas in Maine have limited access to health information. While the local library is one place to access health information, the Rural libraries have limited open hours, outdated materials, and staff inexperienced in provided access to online information. Many patrons in Rural areas of Maine do not have 24/7 online access to their libraries. These libraries do not have an automated card catalog nor a library web page. Balsam provides training on the implementation and use of an automated card catalog and supports the addition of a web page for library patrons to access the catalog.

Rural areas in Maine have limited access to health information. While the local library is one place to access health information, the Rural libraries have limited open hours, outdated materials, and staff inexperienced in provided access to online information. Balsam supports the addition of a web page for library patrons to access the library's newly automated card catalog. Patrons with access to a web based catalog are more likely to view the library web page and then visit their library for help in using web pages.

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 rural healthcare professionals’ engagement with curated online clinical educational materials.

Team Maureen, a nonprofit dedicated to ending cervical cancer by educating about the HPV-Cancer connection and the importance of prevention and early detection, in collaboration with Brigham and Womens Hospital have a long history of providing education across Massachusetts MA about Human Papillomavirus HPV. Our work has resulted in meeting unmet needs and gaps in educating underserved and at risk populations; and our projects have been replicated nationwide and published in several peer-reviewed journals.

The Patient/Family Resource Center & Medical Library at the Baptist Health South Florida - Miami Cancer Institute (MCI) is seeking to cover the hardware costs of one minicomputer and one wireless mouse/keyboard. The items will be used with an existing, wall-mounted 60”, television screen that can be used as a computer monitor. This equipment will improve the presentation experience for bibliographic instruction to cancer patients, their caretakers, and their health care providers.

Congratulations to Heather Brown for receiving a professional development award! She attended the 2019 Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA)

HAMA will be conducting a Massachusetts-Based Health Education tour from May 2019 – August 2019. The objective of this project stems from the need for more culturally-specific delivery of health information to underserved communities. Last year, HAMA conducted this project for the first time. Based off the success of the project and needs assessment obtained through surveying recipients of the educational sessions – we have decided to repeat this project for continued impact within our Haitian community in the Massachusetts area.