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 Sort descending |
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| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Colección para Elevar Voces Latinas/Latines | 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 services all of Oregon… | OR | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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… | OR | ||
| 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 | ||
| Healthy Tech: Addressing West Philadelphia's Socio-technological Status Divide (STS) | Lankenau Medical Center | The Healthy Tech Project will partner with local West Philadelphia grocery stores to offer both Healthy Tech Stations (desks, chairs, Wi-Fi, computers and printers) as well Medical Student volunteer support to shoppers. The Healthy Tech Stations will give West Philadelphia shoppers access and coaching on how to locate health information using available websites including but not limited to: NNLM, USDA, CDC, OSHA, Aunt Bertha and local FQHC's. The Medical Student volunteers promote the utilization of the Healthy Tech Stations and accessing the information and care by actively… | PA | ||
| . Promoting Flu Vaccines for LGBT Community Members in Pennsylvania | Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center | While existing health disparities make it critical for LGBTQ people to engage in preventive care such as flu vaccinations, barriers to care including past or anticipated discrimination reduce the rate at which many LGBTQ people consume healthcare. The 2020 Pennsylvania LGBTQ Health Needs Assessment demonstrated that less than half of LGBTQ Pennsylvanians receive an annual flu shot. Though LGBTQ people were at increased risk with regards to COVID-19, other indicators including the Pennsylvania LGBTQ COVID-19 Vaccine Survey showed that LGBTQ Pennsylvanians were often less likely to… | PA | ||
| Get Healthy with Rover! | Library System of Lancaster County | The Library System of Lancaster County (LSLC) provides mobile library resources to home-based childcare providers of children birth to age five through the Be READy Rover bookmobile, the Early Literacy Outreach Specialist, and their partnership with community organizations. Collaboratively, we focus on essential components to healthy development and learning, provide training and educational materials to providers, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, helped to provide basic food services to Providers and the families they serve. The Get Healthy with Rover! project would utilize the… | PA | ||
| LGBTQ-affirming Health Fairs at Public Libraries | Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center | Through LGBTQ-affirming Health Fairs at Public Libraries, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center aims to provide community members resources and referrals for specific LGBTQ-affirming healthcare services and providers in the Lehigh Valley region. The LGBTQ community experiences significant health disparities due to our historically marginalized status as a community. Through partnerships with 4 public libraries in Eastern Pennsylvania, we will create LGBTQ-affirming health fairs where participants will find information about some of the principal health issues affecting the… | PA | ||
| Increasing the Understanding of the CDC’s Guidance on PrEP to Erase LGBTQ Health Disparities | Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center | Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center’s Health Programs team will design and implement training on the CDC’s recently updated guidance on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and inclusive and affirming practices for treating LGBTQ+ patients. The team will provide tailored training with actionable and reliable LGBTQ+ health information to Lehigh Valley healthcare professionals. This will also include best practices for utilizing MedlinePlus as a trusted professional resource for working with the LGBTQ+… | PA | ||
| Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and Shale Gas Development: Health Outreach to Residents of Southwestern Pennsylvania | Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project (EHP) | Research indicates that shale gas development uses and produces per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), exposure to which can produce negative impacts on health, including liver damage, increased risk of high blood pressure or pre-eclampsia in pregnant women, decreased birth weights, and kidney and testicular cancer. The Environmental Health Project (EHP) proposes to educate residents of Southwestern Pennsylvania (Fayette, Greene, and Washington counties, which are some of the highest-fracked counties in the state) on the importance of being aware of PFAS risk, especially related… | PA | ||
| Green Thumbs In Your Community | Black Girls With Green Thumbs | Black Girls With Green Thumbs promotes health literacy in a way that is culturally competent and accessible, meeting community members where they are - online and within their neighborhoods - and invites them to new experiences like community-based gardening and physical activity. The ongoing “Green Thumbs In Your Community” program will continue to build a network of individuals, families, and community institutions that utilize gardening and physical activity… | PA | ||
| Getting Connected: Digital Literacy Education for Seniors | Penn Asian Senior Services | We want to empower Asian-American seniors to engage with digital life. The Pew Charitable Trust found that nearly one-third of seniors report never using the internet. Low-income seniors and seniors with limited English, especially, do not have access. According to the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), 21% of immigrant adults who speak a language other than English at home have no computer experience, compared to only 5% of English speakers. Even if seniors manage to get online, they disproportionately fall… | PA | ||
| 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. | PA | ||
| 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 | PA | ||
| Health Outreach on Respiratory Hazards and Illnesses in New York State | Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project (EHP) | In an effort to expand access to reliable health information and increase community-based health literacy, the Environmental Health Project (EHP) proposes to work with several community organizations in New York State to provide information relating to the potential health effects of exposure to air pollution. To achieve this goal, we will engage community organizers and residents through EHP’s Environmental HealthWatch Model, a train-the-trainer approach designed to empower community members with public health tools and resources. With support from the Network of the… | PA | ||
| Providence Community Libraries: Improving You in 2022 | Providence Community Library | The aim of this program is to increase availability and accessibility of resources that promote physical and mental health and awareness of medical research to the communities of the nine branch libraries within the Providence Community Library (PCL) system. Programs are aimed at adults, however every library in our system will have the flexibility to adapt programming to serve the needs of their community. Due to demographics and needs of the community, various branch libraries will emphasize programming and promotion of programs in Spanish. If… | RI | ||
| Healthy Families at the Cranston Public Library | Cranston Public Library | The goal of this project is to introduce and provide health information and access to all residents of Cranston, with a focus on the primary languages that our English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) residents read, speak, and write. CPL will position the library as a trusted resource for fact-finding and a source for combating health… | RI | ||
| Collection Equity | Providence Community Library | This award will allow us to purchase materials and books to support and engage the social emotional wellness and literacy of our young patrons and their families. A collection of picture books will be purchased that support social-emotional development, teach empathy and skills to cope with life’s challenges, as well as picture books that specifically represent children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, dyslexia, anxiety, grief and other mental health disorders. Providence Community Library (PCL) is composed of nine neighborhood libraries. Three of these are… | RI | ||
| We Care Wellness | Pickens County Library System | We Care Wellness will educate the Pickens County community on how to navigate the Pickens County Library System’s (PCLS) online databases on Health and Medicine (MedlinePlus). PCLS will reserve the FREE room (For Research Education and Enrichment) located at the Pickens County Administration building. PCLS will provide in person cooking demonstrations and showcase the “We Care Wellness” kits that will be available for check out. All the “We Care Wellness” kits and cooking demonstrations will be on health topics that have been… | SC | ||
| Women's Heart Health - Red Dress Sundays - InObservance of Heart Health Month | The Medi Community Resource Center | February is Heart Health Month, and throughout theentire month, we will be sharing information from subject matter experts that include but are not limited to medical and healthcare professionals, culinary experts, professional trainers and exercise professionals, Tri-county area houses of worship and many other organizations that serveAfrican American, Asian, Native American, Latinaand Caucasian populations to raise awareness aboutthe prevalence of this disease among thesecollective communities in urban, rural andunderserved areas. | SC | ||
| Innovative Initiatives- Promoting Diversity in Nursing and Health | Midlands of South Carolina Black Nurses Association, Inc. | This second annual scholarship luncheon will focus on the data-driven, innovative nursing projects that have been, or are being,implemented by the Midlands of South Carolina Black Nurses Association. This includes the pilot "Mini-Nursing Academy,"through the National Black Nurses Association, Inc. as well as the COVID-19 Photovoice Project that was funded by the RobertWood Johnson Foundation, and the recently formed nursing partnerships that focus on diversity, equity and inclusion in nursing.These initiatives highlight the ongoing disparities in nursing workforce,… | SC | ||
| LGBTQ+ Health Equity Summit | Alliance for Full Acceptance | The LGBTQ+ Health Equity Summit is an annual 2-day hybrid/virtual event. With both keynote speakers and breakout sessions, the Summit is open to anyone who wishes to expand their understanding of the unique experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQ+) individuals and discuss issues affecting the health of this community. | SC | ||
| PULL A-HEAD: Pursuing Leadership in Literacy to Ameliorate HEAd and neck cancer Disparities | Medical University of South Carolina | Public health practice and oral health equity has become a national priority since the release of NIDCR’s, ‘Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges’’ (2021), which outlines the significant impact health literacy has on patient dental health behaviors, patient safety, dental outcomes, interpersonal provider-patient interaction and patient navigation of the dental care system. In this regard, we propose PULL A-HEAD, Pursuing | SC | ||
| Creating a Sustainable and Sharable Disaster Information Services Repository Website | University of South Carolina School of Information Science | The School of Information Science at the University of South Carolina (iSchool/UofSC) requests $19,872 for a one-year Region 2 Emergency Preparedness and Response Award to create and implement a sustainable and sharable disaster information service repository. The project aims are to: 1) create a repository website to document a summary of four research findings on libraries’ and librarians’ services before, during, and after disasters, including hurricanes, floodings, and wildfires; 2) promote the use of the Network of National Library of Medicine (NNLM) and… | SC | ||
| Innovative Mentoring Programs to Diversify the Nursing Workforce | Midlands of South Carolina Black Nurses Association, Inc. | The Midlands of South Carolina Black Nurses Association will host its third annual scholarship luncheon in December 2023. Using reliable and timely data, this event will highlight the current nursing workforce and discuss innovative approaches and strategies to create a more diverse nursing workforce. Midlands of SC Black Nurses Association will provide updates on its Mini Nurse Academy and its student nurse mentoring program by Prisma Health Scholars (in development). NNLM will have an exhibit table at this event. | SC | ||
| Coastal Center Library and Information Outreach | Parents and Guardians Association of the Coastal Center | The following outreach program aims to enhance the quality of life and health for individuals with disabilities in South Carolina by providing access to high-quality health information and resources. The project aims to promote awareness of healthier special needs citizens and communities in our state. Our team plans to achieve this through a physical and online library that will be populated with information resources and other high quality, easy to use, and applicable online resources for individuals with disabilities and their caregivers. We will pay… | SC | ||
| Healthy Sioux Empire | Health Connect of South Dakota | Healthy Sioux Empire is a coalition led project of the Sioux Empire Coalition (SEC). Health Connect of South Dakota, the state’s only dedicated consumer public health library and a member of NNLM, manages the SEC. The Healthy Sioux Empire project will involve providing prevention and public health education to the Sioux Empire metropolitan area (population of over 276K) through the members of the SEC. The educational opportunities will address area community needs just recently highlighted in the 2021 Community Health Needs Assessment surveying released in June of 2022...… | SD |