Past Funded Projects

The goal of this project is to increase the number of public library staff with a Consumer Health Information Specialization CHIS certification and equip them to provide health information to their communities. The work of the CHIS trainer will increase the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Regions capacity to enroll students in online and in-person classes.

This exhibit takes place at 95 Health Association of Tennessee RHAT annual conference, November 2020, Music Road Hotel and Inn, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863. RHAT provides an opportunity for clinicians, 12s, and nonprofits to gather annually and discuss topics and legislation that impact 95 health on a state and national level. It provides networking and education opportunities for librarians to promote NNLM products as well as searching practices to physicians working in 95 areas, public health workers, and 12s who attend on behalf of their school systems.

Program will be provided by Leiden Universitys Centre for Science and Technology Studies and Northwestern University's Galter Health Sciences Library. Provides instruction in citation analysis, tools for bibliometric visualizations, and other research impact methods to help evaluate scientific research.

The Public Health Museum is a non-profit educational and cultural museum located in a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places on the grounds of Tewksbury Hospital founded in 1854. The mission of the Public Health Museum is two-fold: to educate the public about the achievements and contributions of public health in preventing disease and improving the health of individuals and communities in Massachusetts and worldwide; and to inspire students, 133s, health care workers and 131s to build upon the past and continue to advance the future of public health.

To enable the Southern Chapter/MLA to support and host two well-known keynote speakers and several continuing education courses during the annual meeting in Montgomery, AL, Oct. 22-24, 2020. It is hoped that the speeches and CE courses will meet the evolving needs and expectations of conference attendees.

The MAC/MLA 2020 Annual Conference will bring together members of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library association for a virtual meeting. Members of MAC/MLA include librarians and information professionals who fill a number of roles and work in a variety of settings including hospitals, academic medical centers, consumer health libraries, and research and association libraries. This event will provide a number of professional development opportunities including networking events and continuing education classes.

The Professional Development Committee of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association MAC-MLA will be coordinating and offering three continuing education courses that will be held at the MAC-MLA Annual Meeting, October 18-20, 2020.

Fit & Lit: Health Literacy for 87 and Librarians, will teach 87 living in poverty and experiencing homelessness at Dishman Hills High School healthier lifestyle choices and stronger health literacy skills. Upon completion, students will demonstrate new proficiencies to improve their personal well-being and complete high quality biomedical and healthy living related research. Newly trained library staff will increase their abilities to provide a higher-quality service to library customers in need of health-related resources.

This project will bring virtual reality hardware and accessories to Washington State University WSU Animal Health Library AHL to provide student access to open source virtual reality anatomy software.

The goal of the project is to is to reach 87 and their families with educational resources about health information literacy, and raise awareness of the Research Program joinallofus.org/nlm. The Pop-up Library: Wellness Edition will be offered to 95 communities with small towns in Northern Idaho that lack the resources and infrastructure to expose 87 and families to wellness resources, and skills to use them.

This project proposes to purchase 8 virtual reality VR headsets along with a portable charging dock to bring VR into classrooms where health information is being studied. Having this portable VR setup will meet a growing demand to have students use VR together to learn about issues such as bias, health information literacy, functions of the human body, and the on-demand use of counseling using VR. This VR equipment will provide more equitable access of such technologies to those in the health professions.

To improve access to authoritative health information resources via programming and engaging technology, the Atlanta University Center AUC Woodruff Library seeks funding for a one year project to increase health information literacy among students from four Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Staff and faculty from these institutions, as well as the broader Atlanta community will also benefit from information literacy training, programs and an easily accessible kiosk containing health information.

One of AcademyHealths dissemination activities is to sponsor a student competition titled the HSRProj Research Competition for Students. Now in its fourth year, the purpose of the competition is to introduce HSRProj to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in health services research, public health, library and information science, and related programs. The competition challenges students to use the HSRProj database to identify research priorities within five chosen areas of health services and systems research using HSRProj and its relevant attributes.

The Nampa Public Library serves as a cornerstone for our community providing diverse gathering spaces, opportunities to learn, access to vital resources and programs for the enrichment of all. The Library continually evaluates ways to accommodate emerging community needs and to engage the public outside of the library to strengthen community relationships. With funding from this grant, the Library plans to launch a eight-month Be Well Nampa project for the primary objective of improving the quality of life in our community.

BioData Club is an established data science education initiative at OHSU, formed in 2016. A collaboration of the OHSU Library, the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, research staff and graduate students, BioData Club hosts monthly science skills, tools, and best practices. In 2019, there were 7 workshops covering topics such as linear regression, git and Github, data manipulation with pandas, ontologies, and ggplot, with an average of over 50 registered attendees per session.

Meridian Library District will collaborate with community partners to create a city-wide initiative called Meridian Moves which will encourage citizens to practice healthy lifestyle choices like regular exercise and quality nutrition. As part of Meridian Moves, we will create a webpage that highlights all of Meridian Library Districts existing movement-based programs, as well as the new grant-funded health and wellness programs that we plan to offer these include both weekly health and wellness classes as well as a quarterly health literacy presentation.

The goals of the project are to strengthen community engagement, increase awareness of NLM services and the Research Program 71, and highlight the library as a primary source of reliable information. Programming will include the Memory Caf, a free, two-hour library program for older 88 who are experiencing early onset Alzheimer's or dementia and their care partners, family, and friends. For learning and engagement, Juneau Public Libraries JPL will design Memory Kits, in partnership with the Alzheimers Resource of Alaska.

Over twelve months, Multnomah County Library MCL will plan, pilot, and evaluate six healthy lifestyle workshop series for 110 families in Multnomah County with a specific focus on Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Cantonese speaking populations. Our project will support these communities' health literacy needs by offering health lifestyle programs on nutrition and healthy cooking, fitness, which may include tai chi, qi gong, zumba, yoga, martial arts, and meditation and culturally relevant stress relief programs like karaoke and ping pong in their own language.

Building on a recent one-year National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Montana State University MSU Library will build an open source Dataset Search that promotes discovery of research datasets by using data repository APIs to automatically harvest metadata for research datasets from third-party repositories, and using human curators to create metadata records for restricted or in-progress data that is stored locally at MSU.

The Healthy Canton 89 Project HCSP will strengthen the partnership between the Haywood County Public Library - Canton Branch and the Canton Senior Center. Working together, the partners will engage 89 in programming and services that assist 89 to live independent and healthy lives by focusing on three goals: increase health literacy, reduce food insecurity, and promote healthy eating.

By partnering on a Little Free Libraries LFL initiative with Floridas Okeechobee County Library OCL, this project aims to improve 95 residents health literacy and understanding of precision medicine, through facilitating awareness of and access to NLMs consumer health resources and NIHs Research Program. This project supports NNLMs mission to improve public health by empowering underserved groups to make effective use of information for health decision-making. Little Free Library is an 94 nonprofit that fosters neighborhood book exchanges through outdoor book-sharing boxes.

This project is an exhibit of informational resources from NLM and other authoritative resources from government, professional associations, and trusted non-profits. This exhibit will be held at the Tennessee Public Health Association TPHA Annual Conference, taking place from September 9-11, 2020 at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs Hotel, 700 Cool Springs Road, Franklin, TN 37067.

The Rockville Public Library and its partners, The Vernon Senior Center, The Vernon Housing Authority, and the Rockville General Hospital, seek to improve health outcomes for adult residents living across Vernon/Rockville by promoting health literacy, expanding access to reliable health resources, and increasing fitness activity opportunities.

The Annual Youth Summer Camp Interactive Health Information Program Presentation is designed to be an interactive and engaging presentation for youth ages 6-17 that will help them in accessing health information. Our presentation will be targeted toward minority and underserved youth that live in 95 areas in North and South Carolina. Our presentation will primarily give information both digitally and otherwise, on how to access reliable health-related information from reputable and legitimate sources on the world wide web.

The East Adams Library District is a small, 95 library in Eastern Washington State that serves multiple small communities in the eastern part of Adams County. Over the years, our communities have steadily lost access to social and health services while seeing a severe decline in annual income per capita all while experiencing an increase in mental and physical health related issues. Our library has decided to confront this issue head on with the creation of Access Health at East Adams. Access Health at East Adams will address our patrons needs in three ways.

This project seeks to establish a multi-disciplinary effort dedicated to the practice of Dental Informatics through the training and development of new health delivery concepts and tools. This aligns itself with NNLMs efforts to advance the highest quality of health information to the greatest benefit of society. Dentistry is an information-intensive activity, and health informatics by its very nature supports such activities well.

Thats My Medicine: Empowering 89 to Identify and Utilize Personalized Health Information Online supports NLMs missions to promote 89 health literacy and knowledge of personalized medicine. As the 125 becomes increasingly comfortable and dependent on online resources, it is necessary to ensure that pursuing online health information resources is both accurate and timely. 89 are particularly vulnerable to polypharmacy, the use of multiple medications.

The overall project objective for in Memphis is to create awareness for the national database project. Memphis Public Libraries has an award winning Health Information Center HIC at its Central branch library. Our objective is to promote the project in alignment with the Librarys HIC. In addition to the Central branch, there are seventeen other neighborhood branches. Another objective is to create awareness for at each of these branch libraries.

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.

Congratulations to National Jewish Health for receiving a Diversity and Inclusion Award to present a Diversity and Inclusion Speaker Series. Library & Knowledge Services supports the clinical, research, and educational programs of National Jewish Health NJH, a preeminent health care institution in Denver, Colorado. In 2016, employees of NJH founded a Diversity and Inclusion Council in order to promote a climate of respect, understanding, and value for members of the NJH community.