Past Funded Projects

This page includes awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021).

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Title Summary Project Period
Fitbit Kit for Your Community: River East Public Library

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

February 1, 2020 - April 30, 2020
Fitbit Kit for Your Community: Lewistown Carnegie Public Library District

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

February 1, 2020 - April 30, 2020
Fitbit Kit for Your Community: Frank Bertetti Benld Public

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

February 1, 2020 - April 30, 2020
Collection Development: Mattoon Public Library

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Collection Development: Geneseo Public Library District

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Fitbit Kit for Your Community: Belleville Public Library

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

February 1, 2020 - April 30, 2020
Collection Development: Chatham Area Public Library District

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Collection Development: Robert Rowe Public Library District

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Partner Outreach 2018-2021: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Library 2019-2020

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Fitbit Kit for Your Community: Rochester Public Library District

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

February 1, 2020 - April 30, 2020
Partner Outreach 2018-2021: University of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences 2019-2020

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Research Data Management Best Practice Implementation Program for Graduate Students in STEM and Health Sciences

The Research Data Management Best Practice Implementation project supports the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM goal of building capacity in data management practices, services and tools to support FAIR data guiding principles 1. This program will increase graduate student knowledge of data management best practices, promote student understanding of how data management integrates into their research work, and determine if these practices are adopted long term.

June 19, 2018 - April 30, 2020
Leadership Training of Iowa Families of 86 and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs CYSHCN To Promote Self-Efficacy

The Iowa Family Leadership Training Institute IFLTI is a four-session, in-person training designed to develop the leadership skills of emerging family leaders who are parents of Iowa 86 and youth with special health care needs CYSHCN. The IFLTI is sponsored by the University of Iowa Division of Child and Community Health, which also oversees Child Health Specialty Clinics CHSC, Iowas Maternal and Child Health Title V Program for CYSHCN. Now in its fourth year, the IFLTI was created in 2016 by families of CYSHCN for families of CYSHCN.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Healthy Communities in Fulton County, Illinois HCFCI

The Healthy Communities in Fulton County, Illinois HCFCI project is a collaboration between the University of Illinois at Chicagos Library of the Health Sciences in Peoria UIC LHSP, the Western Illinois Universitys School of Nursing WIU SON, and public libraries in Fulton County. In this project, librarians, nursing professors, and nursing students will work with public libraries to provide health fairs for the public.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
De Boca en Boca: Connecting People to Oral Health Information in Multiple Languages

This project is a pilot of a multi-language oral health patient information dissemination project starting with the village of Skokie, IL.

January 1, 2020 - April 30, 2020
Iowa Public Health Research Center IPHRC at Allen College - Phase II

Allen College, UnityPoint Health is a regionally-accredited, private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in Waterloo, Iowa. Built on a tradition of more than 90 years of healthcare education, Allen currently serves 661 students in eight health programs ranging from associates to doctoratesnursing, public health, radiography, sonography, medical laboratory science, medical imaging, occupational therapy, and health education.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
NNLM Community Engagement Network Ambassador Program: Indianapolis

The NNLM Community Engagement Network Ambassador Program: Indianapolis in Indianapolis, IN, will serve as a vital link between the NNLM Community Engagement Network, public libraries, community organizations, and individuals from underrepresented in biomedical research populations across Marion County, Indiana.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Collection Development: Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Partner Outreach 2018-2021: Indiana University Ruth Lilly Medical Library 2019-2020

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Dementia & Research Awareness Project for Public Libraries

The Dementia & Research Awareness project embodies the NNLM Public Library Partnership Award mission in two vital ways. One, by focusing on one group of underserved individuals that libraries are just beginning to serve those living with dementia and their care partners the project promotes the use of public libraries to support community health information needs through the use of National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust

Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust will help persons from underrepresented populations better access, identify and use reliable health information on the internet. With todays focus on obtaining information online or going mobile, there has become a digital divide for individuals with low health literacy, many of whom are represented among vulnerable populations, using online and other digital tools for health Pew, 2015.

May 1, 2018 - October 31, 2019
Community Health in the Library CHIL

The Community Health in the Library CHIL: Reinvigorating Outreach at the UIC Crawford Library of the Health Sciences project will improve access to high quality, reliable health information for the city of Rockford, Illinois and the surrounding Winnebago County community. UICs Crawford Library of the Health Sciences, hereafter referred to as the Crawford Library, has had a long history of participating in community outreach, educating the community on the National Library Medicine NLM resources, and housing a Consumer Health Collection specifically for the community.

May 1, 2018 - October 30, 2019
Community Health Outreach Award: Promoting Healthy Communities: Health Equity Promotion to Public Librarians

The Public Library Association PLA will educate PLA members and other public library staff about implicit bias's connection to health equity and foster a deeper understanding of health literacy as a tool to address health equity within vulnerable communities. We will do this through multiple continuing education and promotional activities, including an Institute at the ALA 2019 Midwinter Meeting, a webinar, a Public Libraries journal article or other publication such as Quick Reads and podcast, and more.

November 1, 2018 - September 30, 2019
County-Level Health Data Fair

The Making County-Level Health Data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable FAIR Initiative will consist of three phases in order to establish and sustain an online interface for local health professionals and librarians to access and analyze county-level health assessment data, as well as educate these individuals on utilizing this resource and creating their own data management plans.

July 27, 2018 - May 30, 2019
Outreach: Ixodes Outreach Project

Early identification of LD symptoms is paramount to effective medical treatment; knowledge of symptoms, how LD spreads, and getting immediate medical treatment is the best prevention. IOP's goal is to promote awareness of health concerns associated with LD and tick-borne diseases in northeast Minnesota's isolated Arrowhead region. This will be accomplished through educational activities, a citizen-science program, and an undergraduate research experience.

May 10, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Research Data: Expanding Research Data Management Education for Health Science Librarians

The Expanding Research Data Management Proposal seeks to offer training on the research data management lifecycle to librarians and 133s. The training courses will be offered by librarians at the Health Sciences Libraries HSL at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities who have a breadth and depth of knowledge to support this work, with experience related to data curation, data management, federal funding compliance, and research reproducibility See Appendix for Description of Setting and Summary of Librarian Expertise.

April 18, 2018 - April 30, 2019
University of Cincinnati Data Day 2019

133s producing data face unique challenges in data management, data sharing, reproducible research and preservation. The University of Cincinnatis annual Data Day event began in 2015 to highlight these challenges and to provide opportunities for 133s to engage with those who can offer credible information on data related services. Data Day presenters have included 133s, scholars, scientists, GIS experts, faculty and students who come together to speak about the work that they do as it relates to data.

July 23, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Outreach: Food Wisdom Repository

This project undertakes outreach activities to further development of, and facilitate access to, a public knowledge repository of information on Indigenous nutritional health. The Research for Indigenous Community Health RICH Center at the University of Minnesota is building a curated database of reliable information resources relevant to Native nutritional health, accessed via a public website.

September 24, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Expanding Research Data Management Education for Health Science Librarians across the GMR, and for Graduate Students and Faculty at the University of Minnesota Duluth

The Expanding Research Data Management Proposal seeks to offer training on the research data management lifecycle to librarians and 133s. The training courses will be offered by librarians at the Health Sciences Libraries HSL at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities who have a breadth and depth of knowledge to support this work, with experience related to data curation, data management, federal funding compliance, and research reproducibility See Appendix for Description of Setting and Summary of Librarian Expertise.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Mobility for All: Effingham Public Library

Effingham Public Library proposes to partner with the National Library of Medicine to provide Mobility for All a monthly chair yoga training that will provide strengthening exercises that anyone can do as well as free resources from the National Library of Medicine like Exercise & Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide from the National Institute on Aging, Getting Fit for Life and Go 4 Life Tip Sheets.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
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