This page includes awards made during the current NNLM award period (May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2026).
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| Project Title | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | PlaneTree Health Library | PlaneTree Health Library proposes to create an oral history record of the present-day concerns of people in San Francisco Bay Area’s diverse communities with regard to communications (and miscommunications) with their healthcare teams. Our plan is to produce several video interviews with healthcare professionals and community health advocates who work to promote health within their own communities. We will identify representatives from the major cultural groups in the Bay Area, particularly: East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), South Asian (Indian Subcontinent),… | CA | ||
| #GetCarded for Health | Las Vegas-Clark County Library District | The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District proposes to create a county-wide initiative called “#GetCarded for Health.” We will gather existing and new Library District health and wellness-based programming, expand online resources in the medical database, and sponsor health and wellness classes. | NV | ||
| Advancing Climate Resilience, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice: A Public and Academic Libraries Partnership in San Diego County | San Diego Public Library | Goal 1: San Diego Public Library, in collaboration with Circuit Libraries, will partner with the NNLM All of Us Program Center and All of Us, UCSD to host 3 climate focused author talks in different Circuit Libraries, in order to engage with community members in enrollment and retention for the All of Us Research Program. | CA | ||
| Breathing Life Into Learning About Air Quality | California Health Sciences University | High school students from underserved communities in the Fresno area will be invited to participate in a three hour session facilitated by California Health Sciences University and UCSF Fresno to learn about air quality in the San Joaquin Valley; how air pollutants impact the respiratory system; the health effects of poor air quality; how to search NLM resources for health information; and community resources to improve air quality and reduce the impact of poor air quality on their health. | CA | ||
| Bringing the Best Health Information to Alaska’s Distant Communities | University of Alaska Anchorage Medical Library | The primary goal of the project is to improve the quality of life and health for Alaska’s citizens by providing information outreach services to the healthcare workforce and to public libraries, especially in rural areas, over a five-year period from May 2021 through April 2026. Access to quality biomedical information will support health professionals in their care of patients. With outreach to healthcare facilities, the Alaska Medical Library (AML) fulfills one component of the Network of the National Library of Medicine’s (NNLM) mission to… | AK | ||
| Bringing the Best Health Information to Alaska’s Distant Communities | University of Alaska Anchorage Medical Library | The primary goal of the project is to improve the quality of life and health for Alaska’s citizens by providing information outreach services to the healthcare workforce and to public libraries, especially in rural areas, over a five-year period from May 2021 through April 2026. Access to quality biomedical information will support health professionals in their care of patients. With outreach to healthcare facilities, the Alaska Medical Library (AML) fulfills one component of the Network of the National Library of Medicine’s (NNLM) mission to… | AK | ||
| Bringing the Best Health Information to Alaska’s Distant Communities | University of Alaska Anchorage Medical Library | The primary goal of the project is to improve the quality of life and health for Alaska’s citizens by providing information outreach services to the healthcare workforce and to public libraries, especially in rural areas, over a five-year period from May 2021 through April 2026. Access to quality biomedical information will support health professionals in their care of patients. With outreach to healthcare facilities, the Alaska Medical Library (AML) fulfills one component of the Network of the National Library of Medicine’s (NNLM) mission to… | AK | ||
| Building resilience to health misinformation in San Diego County, California, communities: An online outreach toolkit for library workers | University of California, San Diego | BACKGROUND: Health misinformation negatively impacts our informed health awareness, decision-making, and adherence to public health measures (Surgeon General, 2021). Consequently, San Diego County, California, declared health misinformation a public health crisis. Libraries in our region can support the County’s campaign to counteract health misinformation through information literacy support and resource access. GOAL: We aim to develop an online outreach toolkit that helps San Diego County library workers (public, academic, and school) launch an… | CA | ||
| Celebrating Puerto Rican Cuisine in Sacramento Through Nutrition Education and Cooking Classes | Sacramento Public Library | Sacramento Public Library will partner with the NNLM All of Us Program Center and All of Us Research Program to participate in an author event during National Nutrition Month, participate in outreach, and distribute information about All of Us in order to engage with community members in enrollment and retention for the All of Us Research Program. | CA | ||
| Challenging racism within the context of dental care through ethnic and local media and with libraries as safe, neutral spaces for reaching medically underserved populations | San Francisco State University | Dental and oral health-care outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities present a stark divide between populations able to access regular dental care, and communities struggling to receive basic and sometimes lifesaving treatment. The public health challenge of racism will be explored within the context of dental care and through the space of public libraries and the participation of ethnic and local media as influential community members. This project — stemming from a larger prospective research effort currently under NIH review (R21 DE032161-… | CA | ||
| Colección para Elevar Voces Latinas/Latines | Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center Library | We acknowledge that ORPARC’s physical library sits on the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands belonging to indigenous peoples since time immemorial, and services all of Oregon… | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Award | Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center Library | We acknowledge that ORPARC’s physical library sits on the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands belonging to indigenous peoples since time immemorial, and that our library resources serve the entire state of Oregon | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Award | Clatskanie Library District | If granted, the Clatskanie Library District will spend the entirety of the award on purchasing new, current, and relevant books for our adult general nonfiction collection in the area of health and wellness. | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Award | Holy Names University | At Holy Names University, 64% percent of the student population identify as people of color. The Paul J. Cushing Library is in the process of creating a new strategic plan that includes collection development goals specifically addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion. We know our current collection does not represent our student demographics and we want to improve and address this issue. A Collection Equity Award would support our work by providing additional funding to meet our new collection development goals. We currently have a running list of resources and materials that… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Public Health Library | The collection Equity Award will be used to purchase books, hardcopy and e-books to update the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LAC-DPH) Library collection that has not been done in over 7 years. The goal is to ensure programs and community organization events that are facilitated by DPH are reflective of voices of the communities served; thus, illuminating health issues that are prevalent and unique to underserved populations throughout Los Angeles County. | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award | City of Hope | With the Collection Equity Award, the library will continue supporting the mission of NNLM by providing the City of Hope community access to resources that enable them to make informed decisions regarding DEI in healthcare delivery and the healthcare work environment. Our organization strives to create an… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award | University of Southern California - Norris Medical Library | The Norris Medical Library (NML) plans to expand our Graphic Medicine collection and promote it to our patrons and library community. We will aim to bolster our Graphic Medicine collection and jumpstart activities related to narrative medicine and health equity on campus as well as drive usage of the collection. We will focus on acquiring titles that fill gaps in our existing collection related to… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award | Monterey County Free Libraries | The official service population falling within the jurisdiction of Monterey County Free Libraries (MCFL) is 230,000 residents. The inland region is largely rural with many remote communities along California’s 101 highway. Agriculture is a major industry in our area and according to the Monterey Farm Bureau, “ | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award | Portland State University | This award would fund the purchase of materials supporting resources in the areas of Native, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander health. Portland State University (PSU) is a large urban university, serving students from Portland, its metro area, and beyond. Situated in the middle of the city, PSU campus and its Library are used by the public as well as PSU students, staff, and faculty. Over the last… | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Award | San Bruno Public Library | We would purchase electronic and/or physical books and audiobooks on health topics in both fiction and nonfiction and make them available to the public as part of the library’s collection. These materials would be in both English and Spanish and would be part of the library’s featured booklists. The library already has plans to coordinate with the local school district&rsquo… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award | University of California San Francisco | Building on our specialized history and expertise, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Library plans to use the NNLM Region 5 Collection Equity Award to acquire a collection of graphic novels about health topics, i.e., graphic medicine. As medical humanities and similar interdisciplinary studies have gained wider scholastic recognition, academic health sciences libraries have begun… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award | Everett Public Library | In the city of Everett, as well as all of Snohomish County, addiction issues continue to have a large impact on the daily life of the community and are a major health crisis. At the Everett Public Library, staff and customers need quality informational materials on addiction, recovery, and emotional support to deal with this crisis. | WA | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - San José State University, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library | San Jose State University | The Collection Equity Award will be used to build a collection pertaining to delivering healthcare to marginalized and medically-underserved populations in Santa Clara County, as identified by the El Camino Health 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA).¹ Populations of interest include the elderly, low-income residents, new Americans and/or undocumented immigrants, and the unhoused… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - A.T. Still Memorial Library California | A.T. Still Memorial Library - California | We plan to expand our Whole Person Health collection to have a Diversity Collection, in which we have fiction, nonfiction, medical term dictionaries in various languages, multicultural textbooks, etc to better support our student population. Our campus has partnered with Community Health Centers to have a unique program where we matriculate diverse students to serve underserved… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - Blue Mountain Community College Library | Blue Mountain Community College Library | Blue Mountain Community College Library is dedicated to building equitable and accessible collections in service of our diverse learning community. We will use this Collection Equity Award to expand our Health and Medicine collections, with a particular emphasis on Spanish language materials, materials focusing on Native Americans and written by Native American authors… | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - California Northstate University | California Northstate University | California Northstate University has established working relationships with local schools, food banks, museums, and other nonprofits for service learning endeavors. The Library is working to support these existing relationships with new academic materials that expand the scope of the Library collection, promote curricular outcomes, and establish service learning components of didactic instruction… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - California State University, Sacramento | California State University, Sacramento | I plan to purchase materials by diverse authors and/or about underrepresented populations in health sciences and public health for the Sacramento State University’s collections. Students’ research and writing topics are frequently focused around health inequities and the health disparities that arise from these inequities. Examples of research consultations I have had with the… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - California State University, San Marcos | California State University, San Marcos | The Collection Equity Award would allow California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) to increase access to a more representative and inclusive collection of health-related literature through the purchase of additional monograph titles (both electronic and physical) that focus on underrepresented populations in the health sciences. CSUSM is a regional forward-focused university serving more than… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - Chaminade University of Honolulu - Sullivan Family Library | Chaminade University - Sullivan Family Library | We hope to use the funding to develop our health sciences and nursing collection. Our health sciences and nursing collection has not received funding for routine collection development since 2018. This means that we have been forced to withdraw books – either due to damage or outdated information – yet have not been able to purchase new material to make up for this loss. In… | HI | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - Clover Park Technical College | Clover Park Technical College | Utilizing the Diverse Voices in Health & Medicine Collections toolkit provided by the NNLM, we will purchase health information books with focuses on Addiction/Recovery, Body Systems and Diseases (with a focus on HIV/AIDS), Health Topics for People of Color, Mental Health and Psychology, Sexual and Reproductive/Women’s Health, and Social Issues. We will choose from both the | WA |