This page includes awards made during the current NNLM award period (May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2026).
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Current Projects
| Project Title | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rural Access to Health Information: Training Community Health Navigators in Northern California to Expand Access to Virtual Health Information Tools | California State University, Chico | This project seeks to serve rural people in northern California by improving their access to medical information. We will train community health navigators (from two programs in the service region: Home Visitors and Help Me Grow) in rural remote areas on the use of MedlinePlus and other high quality, vetted, reliable health information resources. Two separate trainings will take place throughout the project year, one in English and one in Spanish, to best serve our northern California demographic. Training will… | CA | ||
| Rural Library Public Health Collection Update and Expansion | Upper Skagit Library | For this project, the Upper Skagit Library will be updating and diversifying our current public health collection. Our current collection is out of date and was haphazardly put together through donations, and lacks any diverse voices or identities. This award would allow us to create a collection that reflects our current community and it's health challenges, as well as allowing us to work with the community to create a collection that reflects community need. | WA | ||
| Springfield Public Library Accessibility Station | Springfield Public Library | The Springfield Public Library will use this Technology Equity Award to purchase equipment, software and peripherals to add adaptive technology to an existing computer station. By consulting with local community and government organizations (Lane Independent Living Alliance, Oregon Commission for the Blind, Developmental Disabilities Services among others) the library will purchase the most relevant adaptive equipment (standing desk, screen readers, braille display etc) for our community, based on needs identified by these partners. The library has held… | OR | ||
| Supplemental Collection Equity Award | University of California San Francisco | The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Library plans to use the NNLM Region 5 2023 Supplemental Collection Equity Award to expand the graphic medicine collection that we started with the 2022 Collection Equity Award. We were not able to buy all of the desired titles with the initial award, partly because they exceeded the budget and partly because some were out of stock at the time of… | CA | ||
| Supplemental Collection Equity Award | North Bend Public Library | The Library will purchase materials for the Young Adult collection. This collection was recently weeded for age, condition, and interest and needs a refresh. We intend to purchase fiction and nonfiction items in a variety of media formats, including print, graphic, and video. Our goal is to improve the appeal of the collection so that more teens use it and are introduced to the wide… | OR | ||
| Supplemental 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/or Spanish and would be part of the library’s featured booklists. | CA | ||
| Supplemental Collection Equity Award | Springfield Public Library | Our initial award went to the Adult Non-fiction collections in both Spanish and English and the new items purchased focused on under-represented community groups as well as health topics that needed greater or updated coverage. In particular the biomedical/health graphic novel… | OR | ||
| Supplemental Collection Equity Award | University of Alaska Anchorage Medical Library | The Collection Equity Outreach Award would allow the UAA/APU Consortium Library to further supplement the initial grant in purchasing books for the physical and electronic health sciences collection to support the… | AK | ||
| Supplemental Collection Equity Award | University of Southern California - Norris Medical Library | The USC Norris Medical Library (NML) plans to expand our Health Humanities and Graphic Medicine collections and promote these to our patrons and library community. The launch of our display Graphic Medicine collection, based on our original award, has encouraged the library to continue the work implied in this application to build this specialized collection as well as add new, diverse health humanities titles… | CA | ||
| Supplemental Collection Equity Award | Hawaii State Public Library System | Funds from the award will be used to purchase books and materials for a series of book kits targeting parents and caregivers titled: Growing My Garden—Keiki Self-Care Toolkits. The goal of the kits is to support parents and caregivers in cultivating "seeds" of… | HI | ||
| Supplemental Collection Equity Award | San Diego State University | I collaborated with the Health Sciences Librarian to apply for the Collection Equity Award in 2021. Initially our criteria focused on health-related books… | CA | ||
| Supplemental Collection Equity Award Y2 - Clatskanie Library District | Clatskanie Library District | If granted, the Clatskanie Library District will continue building on the work we completed with the generosity of funding received last year. We will purchase new, current, and relevant books for our adult general nonfiction collection in the area of health and wellness. Additionally, we would like to create a new health and wellness collection geared toward… | OR | ||
| Training Health Sciences Students to Find Data for Local and Global Research and Service Project | San Diego State University | The “Finding, Managing, and Analyzing Data for Your Health Sciences Research” workshop series will help students and faculty doing or planning research or service projects in San Diego, or any of the other SDSU locations, find public data on health, demographics, the environment (eg. climate change), and geographical information, to support their research, manage their data using research data management foundational practices, and analyze and visualize that data. Finding government and… | CA |