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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collection Equity Award | Bangor Public Library | We have a collection called “Early Family Life” that is dedicated to social, emotional, mental, and physical health of children 0-10 years of age. The collection is quite old, with some of our books dating back to the 1980s. Even if the information is still applicable, the look and feel of the books are not engaging and give the impression of a neglected collection that lacks relevant information. The collection is not only outdated but it is extremely difficult to browse. Our intention is to update the collection, particularly for current information on neurodiversity and mental… | Maine | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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. | Oregon | ||
| 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. | Washington | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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. | California | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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, “ | California | ||
| 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 | Oregon | ||
| 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… | Oregon | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| Collection Equity Award | Nevins Memorial Library | Here are some steps to consider: Identify, select, and acquire materials in a variety of genres such as graphic medicine, fiction, and memoirs in Spanish. Use relationships with local organizations, such as health clinics and community centers that help to promote the library's collection and services. Promote the library's collection and services through outreach to the Latino community using, among others, social media, local newspapers, and community events to… | Massachusetts | ||
| Collection Equity Award Dana Medical Library | University of Vermont - Dana Health Sciences Library | Expand Access to Graphic Medicine | Vermont | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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… | Oregon | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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… | Hawaii | ||
| 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 | Washington | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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… | Oregon | ||
| 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… | Oregon | ||
| 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… | Nevada | ||
| 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… | Nevada | ||
| 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… | California | ||
| 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). … | California | ||
| 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… | Nevada |