This page includes awards made during the current NNLM award period (May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2026).
For awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021) please visit Past Funded Projects.
To browse our open funding opportunities please visit Funding Opportunities.
| Name | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region 6 POP | Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition | The purpose of the NNLM Region 6 Partner Outreach Program 2021 is to support health equity by providing health information access throughout Region 6 by the formation and practice of the Partner Outreach Program (POP). Built upon the successful Partner Outreach Library (POL) program of the previous Cooperative Agreement with the National Library of Medicine, POP is intended to fund small outreach events within the POP organization’s state. The period of performance is 01 October 2021 – 30 April… | Ohio | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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 Our current collection is out of date and was haphazardly put together through donations, and lacks any diverse voices or identities.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. | Washington | ||
| Rural Telehealth in Public Libraries | Maine Medical Center - MaineHealth | With reduced access to care in rural areas, many patients are turning to telehealth for consultations or follow-up appointments. In lieu of long travel times, patients can connect with providers online. Unfortunately the lack of computer hardware and high speed internet access limits the ability of patients to use video telehealth, which in turn limits the providers’ ability to diagnose and treat them. Our goal is to provide hardware and information resources to a rural library to support telehealth appointments. Additionally, we will produce a video about the telehealth… | Maine | ||
| Rural Utah Community Osteoporosis Education | Michael D. Elton Library at the Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine | Our project aims to provide meaningful education regarding osteoporosis as well as providing patients with the tools to find more information through high quality resources about this topic. We will do this by providing outreach workshops where an evidence-based osteoporosis curriculum is presented which includes an interactive activity researching best sources on a tablet/iPad. Curriculum will be overseen by a board-certified Geriatrician | Utah | ||
| Science Bootcamp | Boston Library Consortium | The New England Science Boot Camp for Librarians (NESBC) is a two and a half day annual conference for librarians, library workers, and library students to keep the science librarianship community informed of current trends in scientific and health-related research and provide immersive learning and networking opportunities. Specialized skills are required for librarians and library workers who support researchers and departmental faculty in areas of health and general sciences. NESBC equips librarians with the knowledge that they need to enhance their professional skills, including… | Massachusetts | ||
| SciStarter Activity Kit for Native American Citizen Scientists Pilot Project | SciStarter | Assemble a team that will collaborate to review and select a participatory science kit to enhance via new activities that will both support engagement among Native Americans and build awareness among pilot kit users on tribal cultural language and related activities. The team will be composed of a SciStarter team leader, front-end web developer, back-end web developer, a professional designer, an editor, a DEI specialist, communications team, a Region 4 representative (John Bramble or his designee), a librarian, and at least two members of Native American tribes in AZ. | Pennsylvania | ||
| SciStarter Spanish Language Activity Kit Pilot Project | SciStarter | The purpose of this work was to create a pilot project in collaboration with educators and librarians in Spanish-speaking communities to identify a process resulting in publicly accessible health focused SciStarter activities to add to a Citizen Science Kit. The additive activities aim to engage the Spanish speaking students and the public in learning about citizen science and ultimately in collecting and analyzing health-related data as part of the practice of public participation and collaboration in scientific research to increase scientific knowledge | Pennsylvania | ||
| Seniors Be Well at GRPL | Trinity Health Saint Mary's | Mercy Health Saint Mary’s Family Medicine Residency Program will partner with the Grand Rapids Public Library (GRPL) to provide a health literacy series for the seniors in our community, particularly our underserved senior populations. Both of these institutions serve people across the lifespan, are members of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), and focus on health literacy and underserved populations. At these talks a physician will provide credible medical information and sources for further information on these topics, sometimes alongside a community… | Michigan | ||
| SHIELD, Supplies, Helpful Information, Emergency, Logistics, and Disaster | Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC) | After a major natural disaster in Western North Carolina (WNC), it was determined that having quick access to essential technology and resources would enhance MAHEC’s disaster response in rural communities; therefore, funding is being sought to create five S.H.I.E.L.D. (Supplies, Helpful Information, Emergency, Logistics, Disaster) kits that will include disaster response technology and resources. The kits will be deployable and support providers as they treat patients in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. | North Carolina | ||
| Smart Tablet Education for Healthy Living” (STEHL) project for older adults (SAG) | Northern Illinois University School of Nursing | The “smart tablet education for healthy living” (STEHL) project for older adults is being created to build upon a previous project that was recently funded by the NNLM and All of Us Research grant which was successfully completed (October 2022 to April 2023). The project “noticing older adults beyond tablets,” provided smart tablets (Samsung A7) to 20 older adults living in 2 retirement homes in the DeKalb area. Our team consisted of younger adults (nurses and student nurses) who were engaged in working with the older adults to help with the project. The project… | Illinois | ||
| Southwest Community Engagement Ambassador Project | University of New Mexico - Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center | The Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center at the University of New Mexico (HSLIC) seeks to develop intentional, culturally relevant strategies for successful engagement outreach with diverse, underserved populations. These efforts will be informed by [1] a review of academic health sciences libraries’ experiences in community engagement with underserved populations; and, [2] an exploration of past community engagement projects conducted by UNM HSLIC. We will collaborate with NNLM Region 4 continuously as we identify community partners throughout New Mexico. We plan… | New Mexico | ||
| 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… | Oregon | ||
| STEHL Phase 2 | Northern Illinois University School of Nursing | The STEHL Phase II project will build upon a project that was funded by the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) under Federal Award Number UG4 LM013729-3 with the University of Iowa and awarded to the Northern Illinois University (NIU) under Subaward No. S04162-01 from August 1, 2023, to April 30, 2024. The toolkit by health care professionals for older adults in retirement homes is entitled “Smart Tablets Education for Healthy Living (STEHL).” This project is aligned with the NNLM mission to improve public access to information to enable them to make informed… | Illinois | ||
| Strengthening the Emergency Response Capacities of Older Latino Adults Exposed to Disasters | Health Communications Institute Inc | The project Strengthening the Emergency Response Capacities of Older Latino Adults Exposed to Disasters seeks to meet the knowledge needs expressed by a group of people over 55 years of age who live in housing projects in three municipalities in southwest Puerto Rico. This shall be done through the development of an educational curriculum in emergency preparedness. Through the curriculum, it is expected to train on family and community preparedness, while being exposed to the use of the… | Puerto Rico | ||
| 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… | Oregon | ||
| 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. | California | ||
| 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… | Oregon | ||
| 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… | Alaska | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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… | Hawaii | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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… | Oregon | ||
| Supporting Equitable Access to Emergency Preparedness Resources for Mothers in Mississippi | Six Dimensions | Mississippi has experienced a series of devastating natural, systemic, and environmental disasters that have required immediate action, sometimes leaving the very unique needs of pregnant and postpartum women unmet. This project will focus on responding to current and emerging needs of pregnant and postpartum women in Mississippi through the development and distribution of community resource boxes that provide basic needs for families. This project will also focus on ensuring that providers that encounter… | Mississippi | ||
| Supporting Equitable Access to Emergency Preparedness Resources for Mothers in Mississippi | Six Dimensions | Mississippi has experienced a series of devastating natural, systemic, and environmental disasters that have required immediate action, sometimes leaving the very unique needs of pregnant and postpartum women unmet. This project will focus on responding to current and emerging needs of pregnant and postpartum women in Mississippi through the development and distribution of emergency preparedness resources. This project will also focus on ensuring that providers and community members that encounter pregnant and postpartum women have the knowledge and understanding of how to provide… | Mississippi | ||
| Sustainable Eating& Nutritional Literacy Express | University of North Texas Health Science Center - Library | The Sustainable Eating & Nutritional Literacyprojectseeks to address food insecurity and health literacy related to nutrition. The goals of the projectwill be accomplishedthrough educational programming and practical support throughthe extensionof community gardenstoindividual homesby providing home growing kits, especially those in areas without access to affordable fresh fruit and vegetables in North Texas.The educational materials andprograming will listfoods that can be grown in North Texas arranged byseason,the associated benefits with each food, debunkfoodhealth myths,… | Texas | ||
| Talking Total Farmer Health Podcast | AgriSafe Network | AgriSafe Network proposes to create and promote a new podcast series, Talking Total Farmer Health, targeted at people who work in agriculture. This series will be comprised of short episodes covering a single health and safety topic relevant to agricultural workers. Each episode will also be supplemented with additional material for the listener to explore the topic further in the form of a research guide. The podcast will be distributed through AgriSafe’s Health Hub, a clearinghouse of public health information for agricultural workers and rural health professionals as… | Louisiana | ||
| Technology and Collections to Expand Health Information Access | Sidney Memorial Public Library | Purchase audiobooks and circulating CD players for older adults and patrons with visual impairments. This will provide additional access to health-related content for those patrons with visual disabilities. The flatscreen will help promote health information resources available at the library including electronic resources which tend to be not well known to the public and as a result, underutilized. The flat screen will also assist in promoting these new acquisitions for the CD and monograph-based content. | |||
| Technology Improvement at Kinderhook Memorial LIbrary | Kinderhook Memorial Library | This project will fund necessary upgrades to computers and printers at the Kinderhook Memorial Library. Our rural community relies on our computers and printers to access medical information and conduct vital research. | New York |