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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESLN Technology: Improving Access to Information and Training for Libraries and Community Members in the Rochester Region | Rochester Regional Library Council (RRLC) | The Rochester Regional Library Council will improve and upgrade our technological capacity in order to provide a better experience for in person, online, and hybrid meetings and training and to provide better access to information. This will enable the council to provide a more engaging experience for people attending our events, and will allow us to travel to offsite locations with technology kits to support online and hybrid events at member locations. We expect this upgrade to increase access to health information and strengthen communication and connectivity for health. Training… | New York | ||
| ESLN Technology: Expanding Southeastern Training | Southeastern New York Library Resources Council (SENYLRC) | The Expanding Southeastern Training project will allow our council to offer professional development trainings simultaneously remotely and in-person. Consequently, this will expand access to these trainings for the library workers and healthcare professionals who attend them—including those who serve underrepresented populations. In fiscal year 2020/2021, Southeastern hosted 83 programs that served 1,462 people. Since the onset of the pandemic, all of these programs have been remote because of safety reasons. It is also increasingly difficult for people to leave their… | New York | ||
| ESLN Technology: Mobile Telepresence Education Platform | Northern New York Library Network (NNYLN) | The shift to 100% virtual learning events during the pandemic taught us that as much as our members value getting together in person, online events allow for much more participation. The Northern NY Library Network’s region spans 11,000 square miles, making travel significant for some of our members with any in-person event. Going forward, we want the best of both worlds: we want to resume meeting up in person for training events to promote long-term relationship-building and collaboration, but we want events to remain accessible to remote attendees. The equipment purchased… | New York | ||
| ESLN Technology: High-speed Scanner | METRO - Metropolitan New York Library Council | The proposed project is to enable the NYAM to purchase a high-speed scanner, which will allow quicker access to the medical-related materials in our library. | New York | ||
| ESLN Technology: Tablet Kits for Health Information | Capital District Library Council | This NNLM grant funded project will enable the Capital District Library Council (CDLC) to preload and provide tablets to our three public library systems to distribute to their member libraries equitably. Primarily, these tablets will provide easy access to high quality online health information from the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine including PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov and MedlinePlus. Links to other curated health information sites endorsed/vetted by the NIH will also be provided. | New York | ||
| ESLN Technology: Telehealth for All in South Central New York State | South Central Regional Library Council (SCRLC) | In Fall 2021, SCRLC conducted a telehealth survey among the region's public libraries. Thirty-four of 130 participated, and the survey demonstrated interest in offering telehealth, but privacy was a barrier to some of the respondents. Others may not have responded because they, too, lacked space and privacy. The survey also demonstrated a need for health information literacy education on the part of library workers. In that space is a challenge, we would like to use our technology grant to provide telehealth kits to our public libraries/systems. Patients/patrons will then… | New York | ||
| ESLN Technology:Assisting Afghans to Relocate, Educate, Assimilate (AAREA) | Western New York Library Resources Council | This project will provide Afghan and other refugee families recently relocated to Buffalo, New York, with assistance to navigate the healthcare system and locate health information in their native languages. WNYLRC will purchase equipment to provide to refugee families through the International Institute of Buffalo. Caseworkers and volunteers at the IIB will distribute 39 devices to participants already enrolled in IIB programs. The devices can be used at the IIB or at public libraries for the most secure connections. Assisting families to apply for free Internet service through the… | New York | ||
| Esteemed Elders: Bridging the Digital Divide, Moving Well, Connected with Community | Georgia Public Library | To create a program to support holistic health in seniors; addressing physical health, the digital divide, and social isolation through varied, and consistently offered programming over a one-year span. The structures we will create, the assets we will gather and the relationships we will nurture will insure the long-term sustainability and growth of this initiative. The program is comprised of three components; Bridging the Digital Divide, Supporting Physical Health, and… | Vermont | ||
| Exhibit Grant at 2023 Rural Health Association of Tennessee Annual Meeting | East Tennessee State University - Medical Center | The project team will exhibit at the Rural Health Association of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. MedlinePlus.gov and PubMed.gov as well as other NLM resources will be promoted. The team will make connections with the rural health workforce of Tennessee. The conference will be November 15-17, 2023. Because of pass attendance by the librarians from ETSU relationships have developed. One librarian takes care of the archives for RHAT and another librarian is on the conference planning committee and runs the… | Tennessee | ||
| Expanding Access to Information to Support the Delivery of Evidence-Based Healthcare Access Utah | Eccles Health Sciences Library | Publisher paywalls limit access to approximately 75% of the published biomedical literature. That represents a massive amount of information being withheld from healthcare providers who lack subscriptions to the journals that control this content. The Eccles Health Sciences Library (EHSL) is launching an initiative that enables licensed… | Utah | ||
| Expanding Claire’s Community | #BeMoreLikeClaire | Through partnerships with local libraries, schools, businesses, faith communities and organizations, Claire’s Community (hereafter referred to as CC) will improve public health by providing increased health literacy and equal access to abuse prevention information. CC will be a supportive network of mentors trained in abuse prevention who know how to help young people and adults 1)recognizethe red flags in relationships; 2) understand the role that power and control play in abuse; and 3) preventrelationship abuse, trauma, or a tragic ending. CC curriculum and delivery model… | Kansas | ||
| Feed, Read, and Grow: Pediatric Anxiety Management Videos | Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine - Virginia Campus | Feed, Read, and Grow is a multi-agency project focused on improving access to health services, food, and literacy resources in the community. We will produce videos with content developed by the creative wellness company JOI NEURON based on recommendations from pediatricians and mental health professionals and delivered through original characters and educational songs in English and Spanish. These videos will be freely available on YouTube and Vimeo. The goal is to engage caregivers and their children in a fun learning experience about the important topic of anxiety. Through a… | Virginia | ||
| Focused Outreach: Collection Development | Champlain Valley Union High School | The Medical Library at CVPH is requesting funding for the purchase of six titles for use by the hospital staff to continue the NNLM book club programs. Prior to the pandemic, the kits were obtained and were popular with staff. CVPH would like to resume book clubs virtually to promote awareness and educate staff about resilience, LGBTQ+ issues, DEI topics and other pertinent public health topics such as vaccination. … | Vermont | ||
| Fostering diversity awareness in nursing students to improve health disparities for underserved populations in Texas | Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing - Learning Resource Center | Baylor University, Louise Herrington School of Nursing (LHSON), located in Dallas, Texas is partnering with The Family Place and Austin St. Center in delivering quality consumer health literature instruction to underserved individuals in the Dallascommunity. As part of the LHSON mission Rio Grande Valley trip, LHSON is also partnering with Catholic Charities Respite Center and Texas River Ministry in delivering nursing care to meet immediate needs of underserved minorities and in promoting healthy lifestyles for adults and children. To reduce health disparities and promote healthy… | Texas | ||
| Friendship Bench: Community-Based Mental Health Support and Literacy in Lowndes County, Mississippi | Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System - Columbus-Lowndes Public Library | (Updated: 8/28/25) The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System proposes to implement the Friendship Bench Initiative, a community-driven model designed to address mental health needs, reduce stigma, and improve health literacy in Lowndes County, Mississippi. By training trusted senior volunteers to provide peer counseling at designated benches in public spaces, the project will integrate National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources—including MedlinePlus, PubMed, NNLM Reading Club, and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)—… | Mississippi |