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.
| Project Title | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building Bridges with Libraries Serving Native and Rural Communities in Montana | Montana State University - Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity | Montana communities, particularly Native and rural communities, face severe health disparitiesthat affect health equity and quality of life among its citizens. The Building BridgesAmbassadors and Consulting Librarians team will work to achieve threeprimary goals during the project period. Goal One: The team will attend NNLM Region 4 meetings andwill contribute to reports, blogs, and other outputs (e.g., health infographics) as discussed at these meetings. They will work to advise and share with the Region 4 Team about ways to engage with Native and rural communities in Montana and… | |||
| Building Capacity Among Librarians for Machine Learning Applications to Bibliographic Data | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Health Sciences Library | This project will develop an open access, web-based user interface for machine learning tools currently in use as desktop applications by UNC Health Sciences Library (HSL) and create an accompanying full-day curriculum to be delivered to research librarians at multiple institutions at no cost. This funding will allow UNC HSL to share their expertise with other institutions around applying these innovative approaches to analyzing bibliographic data. Machine learning approaches in use at UNC HSL include… | |||
| Building resilience to health misinformation in San Diego County, California, communities: An online outreach toolkit for library workers | University of California, San Diego | BACKGROUND: Health misinformation negatively impacts our informed health awareness, decision-making, and adherence to public health measures (Surgeon General, 2021). Consequently, San Diego County, California, declared health misinformation a public health crisis. Libraries in our region can support the County’s campaign to counteract health misinformation through information literacy support and resource access. GOAL: We aim to develop an online outreach toolkit that helps San Diego County library workers (public, academic, and school) launch an… | |||
| Celebrating Puerto Rican Cuisine in Sacramento Through Nutrition Education and Cooking Classes | Sacramento Public Library | Sacramento Public Library will partner with the NNLM All of Us Program Center and All of Us Research Program to participate in an author event during National Nutrition Month, participate in outreach, and distribute information about All of Us in order to engage with community members in enrollment and retention for the All of Us Research Program. | |||
| Challenging racism within the context of dental care through ethnic and local media and with libraries as safe, neutral spaces for reaching medically underserved populations | San Francisco State University | Dental and oral health-care outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities present a stark divide between populations able to access regular dental care, and communities struggling to receive basic and sometimes lifesaving treatment. The public health challenge of racism will be explored within the context of dental care and through the space of public libraries and the participation of ethnic and local media as influential community members. This project — stemming from a larger prospective research effort currently under NIH review (R21 DE032161-… |