Past Funded Projects

HSLI is requesting funding to provide an MLA-accredited CE workshop for the Health Sciences Librarians of Illinois Conference, on Oct 26, 201. Emerging Technologies for the Busy Librarian, 4 MLA CE, presented by Gabriel R. Rios, Director, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University, Indianapolis. This class is designed to give the busy librarian an overview of emerged and emerging technologies impacting or potentially impacting our profession. It is a survey course that will cover a variety of technology topics.

Exhibit at: Area Agency on Aging, Senior Lifestyles Expo. October 4, 2017. Location: Greater Gulf State Fairgrounds, 1035 N. Cody Rd., Mobile, Al 36608

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association SCMLA is hosting it's 67th annual meeting, Oct. 19-22, 2017, in Knoxville, TN, hosted by Univ. of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Preston Medical Library.

The project plans to combine the intimacy of a TED Talk with the interactivity of an in-person workshop to teach medical students how to evaluate health information. To do this we will create a set of videos on how to appraise the credibility of three common information sources in the health sciences. We will purchase video recording equipment and set up a portable One-Button Studio system to record the video series at the Ginsburg Library. After student review, we will upload the series to the TE2d platform. TE2d is the TED's youth and education initiative and is video based.

Attend the annual Southeastern Chapter of the Medical Library Association's Annual Meeting, being held October 19-22, 2017 in Knoxville, TN. Maya Hollinshead, Program Coordinator will be attending.

Exhibit at South Carolina Chapter of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities SCAAIDD Annual Meeting, October 4-6, 2017 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

This funding will cover expenses accrued through travel and help cover the cost of honoraria for Susan LaValley at the MAC Annual Meeting. Susan LaValley will be instructing librarians on conducting profession-related research.

This project will bring the Comics and Medicine 2017 Conference to Seattle, WA on June 15-17, 2017 at the Seattle Public Library. The Comics and Medicine 2017 Conference seeks to engage health providers, health information professionals, artists, academics and members of the local community in the use of comics as a resource to provide accessible health information and communicate health-related experiences.

Exhibit at 2017 Tennessee Public Health Association Annual Conference 'Health Across the Spectrum' September 13-17, 2017

HSLI is requesting funding to provide an MLA-accredited CE workshop for the Health Sciences Librarians of Illinois Conference, on Oct 26, 201. Emerging Technologies for the Busy Librarian, 4 MLA CE, presented by Gabriel R. Rios, Director, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University, Indianapolis. This class is designed to give the busy librarian an overview of emerged and emerging technologies impacting or potentially impacting our profession. It is a survey course that will cover a variety of technology topics.

We are requesting the Professional Development Award funding to allow us to offer two continuing education courses 'Perspectives in Research Data Management' and 'Data Management for Librarians' at the Joint 2017 Midwest Medical Library Association and Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association Conference being held in October 2017.

This professional development awards supports one health sciences librarian to attend the Midwest Chapter MLA/MHSLA Joint Annual Conference in Ypsilanti, MI, October 13-16, 2017.

Offer two continuing education courses 'Perspectives in Research Data Management' and 'Data Management for Librarians' at the Joint 2017 Midwest Medical Library Association and Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association Conference being held in October.

I am requesting this award to enable me to attend the October 2017 joint annual conference of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association MLA and the Michigan Health Sciences Library Association MHSLA in Ypsilanti, Michigan. see http://midwestmla.org/conference2017/. I hope to take advantage of one of the continuing education courses, but my primary reason for attending is to pay attention to the preparation, organization, and execution of the meeting itself.

The North Dakota Library Association's Health Science Information Section HSIS will offer free training related to searching for evidence-based medicine. The training will be a one-day workshop version of the popular 'EBM and the Librarian' class taught by Connie Schardt. Attendees will be introduced to the basics of evidence-based medicine and will learn about the role that librarians can play in its practice and instruction.

The Marshall Community Health Library, a consumer health library that serves the public and the local healthcare community, will be hosting a National Library of Medicine NLM traveling exhibition: Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic & Medicine in July and August 2017. This event coincides with the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Marshall library. The exhibition will be used as an opportunity to educate and reach out to people in the local community who may not be aware of Marshall's extensive health information resources.

Developing a Replicable Model for Health Literacy to Promote Positive Youth Development is a year-long, school-based, in-class, student-centered, experiential, and technology-driven health promotion and disease prevention program being implemented with 9th and 10th graders as well as 3rd, 4th 5th graders at the participating Pittsburgh public inner city schools to create health literate k-12 public school students who are able to access, navigate, obtain and understand health information and use it to make informed decisions about their health.

The Pennsylvania Office of 95 Health PORH is funded by the DentaQuest Institute DQI to deliver the Medical, Oral Expanded MORE Care Collaborative to eight federally-designated 95 Health Clinics RHCs in Pennsylvania and one clinic anticipated to become an RHC in the near future. The Oral Health Education for the Medical Professional and Patient project will facilitate the current project to be expanded to reach more RHCs while further educating medical providers on the oral health resources available to them through NN/LM.

Now in its third year, the Great Lakes Science Boot Camp for Librarians provides affordable educational and networking opportunities for STEM Librarians working in the Greater Midwest Region. The 2017 Science Boot Camp will be hosted at Michigan State University MSU in East Lansing, Michigan from July 19-21 and will build on the success of earlier Boot Camps held at Wayne State University and the University of Notre Dame. The Boot Camp follows an established model consisting of two and a half days of sessions presenting on cutting edge STEM research led by distinguished faculty members.

The Columbia County Traveling Library is working toward doing more community outreach in partnership with area agencies. We hope to outfit our new bookmobile as a mobile classroom that would help us provide outreach and education for the 95 populations we serve, which experience significant health and economic disparities. We already reach more than 500 regular patrons at 49 bookmobile stops. We plan to engage them at this point of contact by offering semi-formal tablet-based trainings on how to use tablets and how to access quality online health information.

This four-module pilot curriculum provides the necessary tools for library staff to recognize the health and social challenges facing their most vulnerable patrons, engage with those patrons, and subsequently refer them to appropriate community-based resources. Over the next eight months of this project, we seek to modifythe pilot curriculum and deliver it to staff working in various capacities at the CHLC training site 1, including individuals working in the library, pediatric and adult clinics, and the recreation center.

The Systematic Review Workshop: the Nuts and Bolts for Librarians is a 2.5-day hands-on, in person workshop scheduled from July 17 to July 19, 2017 held at the University of Pittsburgh's Falk Library of the Health Sciences. The aim is to prepare health sciences librarians 'to become a systematic review team collaborator and a facilitator in the systematic review process.' Activities include a mixture of group discussion, interactive lectures, and hands-on exercises. Prior training or experience in systematic reviews is not required.

Attend 'The 9th 94 Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference: Embedding and Embracing Evidence', from June 18 - 21, 2017, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Funding is being requested to support travel costs to serve as a co-presenter with Lydia Collins, Consumer Health Coordinator at NNLM MAR, at the Medical Library Association Annual 2017 conference in Seattle, WA.

The Health Sciences Library at Orlando Health has recently established a collection of lending laptops that are being repurposed for the benefit of hospital team members as a new roving classroom. The laptops are equipped with clinical applications and Microsoft Office applications that can be used to provide classroom instruction for computer literacy and systems training. Currently we do not have a means of transporting the laptops across campus aside from utilizing a regular library book cart.

Wilkes-Barre General Hospital WBGH is located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, which has consistently ranked poorly in national health statistics. The county is higher than average in the age of the population, unemployment, poverty, and other indicators of a population at risk. WBGH is the largest hospital in the area and has a huge impact on the health of the community, especially on the population living in the inner city area where literacy rates are the lowest and poverty is the highest.

I am requesting these funds for attending the North Carolina GIS conference in Raleigh North Carolina, February 23-24, 2017. The conference description states 'Learn about refreshed data resources, see demonstrations of new apps, gain exposure to emerging technologies, and become familiarized about the relationship between GIS and the development of public policy.'

Post-disaster community members seek opportunities to volunteer and support recovery efforts. Tapping into this resource requires governments to have a plan to receive, train, and equip spontaneous volunteers rapidly. Libraries are known community hubs, provide great space for processing and training volunteers, and have access to resources related to disasters through the National Libraries of Medicine among other sources.

Through this project, HSLIC will focus on sustaining the connections with the many organizations in New Mexico it has partnered with in the past to raise awareness of free health information resources available through the National Library of Medicine. This will be accomplished through an array of demos, classes, exhibits, and health fairs. This awareness building will specifically target 95, underserved populations and those who provide services for them in New Mexico through the promotion of NLM resources.

The University of Florida UF Health Science Center Libraries' HSCL Health Information Outreach project will bring health information resources & literacy skills training to librarians, community organizations, and members of the public throughout Alachua County. Using the mobile outreach kit, the project team will equip librarians and other community 12s to teach their users about health information resources, and to understand the challenges those with limited health literacy face in understanding health information, regardless of their location or available facilities.