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 Award Y3 - Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles | Mount Saint Mary's University | MSMU Libraries wants to use the Collection Equity Award to develop the collection in areas that promote reading as a source of mental health awareness and well-being for its students. Our primary goals include: 1) Develop our popular reading collection to incorporate more topics on mental health and wellness; 2) Work with the University’s Counseling and Psychology Services (CAPS) through… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - Oregon Health & Science University Library | Oregon Health & Science University Library | These funds will be used to further develop and enrich OHSU Library’s collection of health- and medical-themed graphic novels. Graphic medicine facilitates learning, compassion, and a greater appreciation for the health sciences through the medium of comic-style art and narrative storytelling. This… | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - Pacific University Oregon | Pacific University | This is a proposal to purchase diversity training products and services for cultural awareness and skill-building activities similar to ones that individuals (or association members) might get attending continuing education (CE) classes through podcasts, online webinars/workshops, live or taped conferences, etc. Such products and services offer online, on-demand, interactive, and intensive learning. This proposal extends collection… | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - Savitt Medical Library University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine | University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine | I intend to expand key areas of the Savitt Medical Library print collection with this award. Resources will be selected to address known demographics which UNR Med is committed to serving under our diversity, equity and inclusion strategies. The Mission-Based Diversity Groups (MBDG) are identified across our library user communities of faculty, staff and students, and were identified by way of… | NV | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - Southern Nevada Health District | Southern Nevada Health District | We plan to use this award to purchase online resources that will be highlighted during “Health District After Dark” events and during community outreach opportunities through our Health Equity team. The funds will enable SNHD to expand our online resource offerings to include expanded items that represent diverse, underrepresented, and marginalized voices related to public… | NV | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - University of San Francisco | University of San Francisco | The Collection Equity Award would allow Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco to expand print and electronic monograph resources specific to disability studies, disability justice, and the health of people with disabilities. Our disability studies collection is currently limited, and would benefit from targeted, intentional collection development. Given that disability studies is… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Award Y3 - University of Southern California, Jennifer Ann Wilson Dental Library | University of Southern California Jennifer Ann Wilson Dental Library | We will use this award to build a collection of books on mental health and well-being at the Wilson Dental Library and provide library programming around mental health literacy for dental, oral health, and health sciences students, faculty, staff, and clinicians at the University of Southern California (USC). … | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Providence St. Vincent Hospital & Medical Center | With ongoing social justice initiatives and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, the health sciences library commits to meet the information needs of health care providers at Providence who strive to serve historically marginalized and vulnerable… | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Kenai Community Library | Approximately 78% of the health-related titles the library currently owns are more than 5 years old. This includes adult, young adult, and juvenile titles. While we recently weeded these sections, we still have much work to do to provide our patrons access to recent and reliable information and to replenish what we removed.If we are awarded this grant, we will purchase titles in various formats (e.g., print, audio, and DVDs) for all age groups. We believe that now more than ever libraries must promote the principles of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access. If we are awarded this… | AK | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Background The UNLV Health Sciences Library (HSL) primarily supports the education and mission of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine… | NV | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | University of Alaska Anchorage Medical Library | The Collection Equity Outreach Award would allow the UAA/APU Consortium Library to purchase books for the physical and electronic health sciences collection to support the diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives of the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Strategic Plan for 2025. Specifically, the Library would purchase materials that support College of Health students to meet the health care needs of the state’s Alaska Native, Hispanics/Latinos, Asian, Black/African American and Pacific Islander demographics. Since College of Health students make up a large… | AK | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Springfield Public Library | This award will be used to increase the Springfield Public Library current biomedical/health collection, primarily in Spanish and English by: … | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | San Diego State University | Our plan is to purchase materials related to student/young adult health and wellness, specifically in underrepresented populations. Resources purchased with these funds will include graphic medicine, fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, and oral histories representing diverse people, illnesses, and other health related concerns. We… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Redwood City Public Library | The RCPL CARES (Cultivating and Advancing Racial Equity Systemically) team will be selecting books for the library collection that further our equity and inclusion goals. These materials will be on a variety of health topics and will be both fictional and non-fiction selections. Materials will be selected for the young adult and adult collections. The library has a current Health collection that… | CA | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | North Bend Public Library | $1,000 of the award would be used to refresh the adult nonfiction collection with health information titles targeted at senior adults. Our goal for this portion of the award is to increase access to current information so that library users are better equipped to manage their own care and interact with medical providers. Many senior users still seek print resources. A goal is to purchase titles by… | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Pacific University | Our Collection Equity Outreach Award will focus on collection building around BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ issues for the following reasons: the collections in these areas are out of date; and there is a high demand for such materials. | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Oregon Health & Science University Library | Graphic medicine and narrative medicine are two disciplines used to create empathy and understanding between patients and health care providers.The Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Library is home to a 35-item collection of graphic medicine titles. The Library started this collection to provide OHSU’s community with a greater range of materials to use in their studies, instruction, and practice. We want to expand the scope and access by adding zines. A zine, short for fanzine or magazine, is a self-publication, usually made on paper and reproduced with a… | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | University of Portland Library | The School of Nursing has increased their focus on health issues related to this population and the library has been active in creating displays on LGBTQIA+ topics and celebrating events like Pride. This award will allow us to increase our materials supportive of LGBTQIA+ community members.… | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Hawaii State Public Library System | Funds from the award will be used to purchase books and materials for book discussion kits targeted to parents and caregivers of children ages 4-12. Book discussion kits will focus on timely subjects including racial equity, identity & belonging, joy & self-love, immigration & refugees, social justice & activism, and social emotional learning. Inspiration for the… | HI | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Jackson County Library Services | With the Collection equity Outreach Award, we intend to add health-related materials – in both print and digital formats, and in both English and Spanish, to our Teen Nonfiction collection. These materials will be categorically prioritized to focus on LGBTQ health, Drugs, Teen Pregnancy/Parenthood, and Mental Health. These categories were chosen specifically because of JCLS’s… | OR | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Juneau Public Library | The Juneau Public Libraries, in Juneau, Alaska intends to buy books to develop a health collection for Shéiyi X̱aat Hít (Spruce Root House), a brand new emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth ages 10-18. In… | AK | ||
| Community Partnerships to Address Mental Health Literacy and Stigma in Rural Northeastern Washington | Washington State University - Spokane | The aims of the Community Partnerships to Address Mental Health Literacy and Stigma in Rural Northeastern Washington project are to increase mental health literacy, reduce stigma regarding mental illness, and ultimately improve mental health outcomes among adolescents in Ferry, Stevens, and Pend Oreille Counties in rural areas of Eastern Washington. Working with the Northeast Tri-… | WA | ||
| Data Journalism Course in a Box: The COVID Tracking Project Archives | University of California San Francisco | The COVID Tracking Project (CTP) was a citizen-run, all volunteer organization that tracked the first year of the COVID pandemic. The data produced by the project are some of the most clean and well-documented datasets on the pandemic. This course-in-a-box includes datasets, metadata, annotations, and editorial content describing the methods and theories of the project. Using this curriculum, journalism students and public health communicators will learn methodologies of data collection, communication and transparency in community-science projects. | CA | ||
| Educating dental health students through simulation, active learning, and virtual modalities. | Lake Washington Institute of Technology | To increase active learning for dental students and create a library of hand skills videos for future cohorts and the public who are interested in the subject matter. A high speed camera and special router will be used for filming, streaming, and uploading to the cloud. The project products will become part of the college library of Open Educational Resources (OER). | WA | ||
| Enabling Engagement with 3-D Scanning Technology | Oregon Health & Science University Library | The Oregon Health & Science University’s OHSU Library will make 3-D scanning technology more available to communities through Equipment Lending and Special Collections Outreach. Experience with creating and manipulating 3-D representations of medical and scientific objects is important to the spatial thinking and creativity of academic, research and community learners served by the OHSU Library. Creating an opportunity to experiment with this technology can provide a background that learners can build on for more advanced scientific training or… | OR | ||
| H.E.A.L.T.H. (Health Equity Access: Library Telehealth Hub) | Sacramento Public Library | The Sacramento Public Library, in partnership with HealthImpact, will station a private booth at one library location to be used for telehealth purposes. The booth will be equipped with wi-fi, a laptop, monitor, printer, additional lighting, webcam, and microphone to ensure high-quality video for virtual, private appointments with health professionals. Patrons can make an appointment with a Registered Nurse using Health Impact's telehealth platform. | CA | ||
| Healthcare Informatics Data on Demand (HIDD) | University of San Diego | The project will support data infrastructure that improves student access to biomedical and health information including underserved, minority and underrepresented communities such as:… | CA | ||
| Improving Access to Oregon Syringe Exchange Heath Information | HIV Alliance | HIV Alliance proposes to implement a new system of digital data collection, management, and dissemination for our syringe exchange program, which serves a diverse population of people who inject drugs (PWID) across seven Oregon Counties (Lane, Douglas, Marion, Josephine, Coos, and Curry). Ultimately, this project will increase access to accurate syringe exchange health information and data dissemination, internally and externally, leading to enhanced transparency and collaboration and will help strengthen our capacity to provide essential infection and overdose prevention services.… | OR | ||
| Mālama i ka ʻikepili, Caring for Data: Supporting Hawaiʻi’s Research Data Needs through a Library Data Services Program | University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Library | The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) Library seeks support for the development of a biomedical data management and data sharing course optimized for Hawaiʻi researchers and students, culminating in a live symposium in Spring 2023. This project will lay the foundation for data services in the UHM Library going forward. We are requesting $25,000 to hire a part-time library data services assistant to help conduct a data needs assessment, develop the asynchronous online course, and organize the symposium. | HI | ||
| Public Health Information Kits | Walla Walla County Rural Library District | WWCRLD is in the midst of strategic planning and two community focus groups have indicated the need for health information and all-ages programming for the public in a variety of areas. While we have development partnerships with other educational agencies in the county, developing and strengthening our engagement with area organizations with a focus on health and wellness will be one of… | WA |