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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Oregon Health & Science University Library | Graphic medicine and narrative medicine are two disciplines used to create empathy and understanding between patients and health care providers.The Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Library is home to a 35-item collection of graphic medicine titles. The Library started this collection to provide OHSU’s community with a greater range of materials to use in their studies, instruction, and practice. We want to expand the scope and access by adding zines. A zine, short for fanzine or magazine, is a self-publication, usually made on paper and reproduced with a… | |||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Pacific University | Our Collection Equity Outreach Award will focus on collection building around BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ issues for the following reasons: the collections in these areas are out of date; and there is a high demand for such materials. | |||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Providence St. Vincent Hospital & Medical Center | With ongoing social justice initiatives and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, the health sciences library commits to meet the information needs of health care providers at Providence who strive to serve historically marginalized and vulnerable… | |||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | Redwood City Public Library | The RCPL CARES (Cultivating and Advancing Racial Equity Systemically) team will be selecting books for the library collection that further our equity and inclusion goals. These materials will be on a variety of health topics and will be both fictional and non-fiction selections. Materials will be selected for the young adult and adult collections. The library has a current Health collection that… | |||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | San Diego State University | Our plan is to purchase materials related to student/young adult health and wellness, specifically in underrepresented populations. Resources purchased with these funds will include graphic medicine, fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, and oral histories representing diverse people, illnesses, and other health related concerns. We… |