Medical Data and Me Community Awareness Project: Project partners will plan and develop a series of interactive educational programs to inform and engage the community in related activities and research involved in precision medicine. Over a three-year timeline participants will be introduced to the technologies, techniques, and key participants in precision medicine activities specifically the collection of consumer health information and data culminating in a daylong symposium in year-three.

Serving as a partner outreach library for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine's Greater Midwest Region office. Work includes instruction and promotion of National Library of Medicine resources on behalf of the office.

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

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

The Science & Technology Division of the Akron Ohio-Summit County Public Library plans to create a multi-week program of loaning wearable fitness trackers to groups of people for the purpose of encouraging regular and sustained increase in physical activity.

The goal of this project is to implement resource sharing management software at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine WMed. Currently WMed is functioning without automated interlibrary loan software and requests are instead managed manually by four full-time faculty librarians.

HSLI is requesting funding to provide an MLA-accredited CE workshop for the Health Sciences Librarians of Illinois Conference, on Oct 26, 201. Emerging Technologies for the Busy Librarian, 4 MLA CE, presented by Gabriel R. Rios, Director, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University, Indianapolis. This class is designed to give the busy librarian an overview of emerged and emerging technologies impacting or potentially impacting our profession. It is a survey course that will cover a variety of technology topics.

HSLI is requesting funding to provide an MLA-accredited CE workshop for the Health Sciences Librarians of Illinois Conference, on Oct 26, 201. Emerging Technologies for the Busy Librarian, 4 MLA CE, presented by Gabriel R. Rios, Director, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University, Indianapolis. This class is designed to give the busy librarian an overview of emerged and emerging technologies impacting or potentially impacting our profession. It is a survey course that will cover a variety of technology topics.

Offer two continuing education courses 'Perspectives in Research Data Management' and 'Data Management for Librarians' at the Joint 2017 Midwest Medical Library Association and Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association Conference being held in October.

We are requesting the Professional Development Award funding to allow us to offer two continuing education courses 'Perspectives in Research Data Management' and 'Data Management for Librarians' at the Joint 2017 Midwest Medical Library Association and Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association Conference being held in October 2017.

This professional development awards supports one health sciences librarian to attend the Midwest Chapter MLA/MHSLA Joint Annual Conference in Ypsilanti, MI, October 13-16, 2017.

I am requesting this award to enable me to attend the October 2017 joint annual conference of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association MLA and the Michigan Health Sciences Library Association MHSLA in Ypsilanti, Michigan. see http://midwestmla.org/conference2017/. I hope to take advantage of one of the continuing education courses, but my primary reason for attending is to pay attention to the preparation, organization, and execution of the meeting itself.

Now in its third year, the Great Lakes Science Boot Camp for Librarians provides affordable educational and networking opportunities for STEM Librarians working in the Greater Midwest Region. The 2017 Science Boot Camp will be hosted at Michigan State University MSU in East Lansing, Michigan from July 19-21 and will build on the success of earlier Boot Camps held at Wayne State University and the University of Notre Dame. The Boot Camp follows an established model consisting of two and a half days of sessions presenting on cutting edge STEM research led by distinguished faculty members.

The Systematic Review Workshop: the Nuts and Bolts for Librarians is a 2.5-day hands-on, in person workshop scheduled from July 17 to July 19, 2017 held at the University of Pittsburgh's Falk Library of the Health Sciences. The aim is to prepare health sciences librarians 'to become a systematic review team collaborator and a facilitator in the systematic review process.' Activities include a mixture of group discussion, interactive lectures, and hands-on exercises. Prior training or experience in systematic reviews is not required.

Exhibit and outreach at the Delivering the Vision of Comprehensive Health Services in 95 Iowa Annual meeting of Rebalancing Health Care in the Heartland sponsored by the UIowa Health Sciences Policy Council and the annual meeting of the Iowa 95 Health Association

Exhibiting and outreach throughout Illinois via University of Illinois at Chicago library sites. *Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture NLM Traveling Exhibit Peoria is an excellent venue for this exhibit since the 101 community has Peoria-based support and/or service groups serving the 15 counties in Region 2 as defined by Illinois HIV Care Connect, funded by the Illinois Department of Public Health IDPH.

Outreach is an integral part of The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library and this area of service is overseen by Judith A. Wiener, MA, MLIS, Assistant Director for Collections and Outreach. Several programs and activities are planned throughout the year in order to connect the public with needed reliable health information resources. Attention is also paid to help support professionals in providing such information to their clients, patients, and customers.

The mission of Blessing Health Professions Library is to enhance learning, research, and patient care by effectively managing knowledge-based resources for the 21st century. This mission is accomplished with respect for our patrons through dedication to excellence, creative service approaches, and by providing a doorway to information access through new technology initiatives. This application encompasses two areas of our mission: creative service approaches and information access through technology initiatives.

The GMR Outreach Award allows the Outreach Librarian of the Ruth Lilly Medical Library to attend multiple events as an exhibitor, pays for a small portion of The Outreach Librarian's salary, and pays for minimal related administrative costs. Events are hosted by Outreach Librarian and other volunteers from the Ruth Lilly Medical Library. A booth and table are rented. Space is hosted with friendly faces, a MacBook Air & Wifi for live demonstrations of NLM databases, handouts and customized posters. Classes are taught by the Outreach Librarian and other volunteers.

If I am able to attend, the MLA Annual Meeting will be my first major professional Library event and will serve as a springboard for me to launch my career as a Health Sciences Librarian. This event will offer me to opportunity to begin engaging with a nationwide network of medical librarians, particularly through my participation in the Colleague Connection mentorship program and First-Time Attendees Program, as well as to meet some of the vendors with whom I will be working in my new position.

The Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine OUWB will collaborate with the HOPE Hospitality & Warming Center in Pontiac, Michigan to empower discharged homeless patients in its Recuperative Care Center with better health information seeking and literacy skills.

To support the mission of the National Network for Libraries of Medicine, the Library will provide resources to the residents consumers with health information as outlined in Aim 10.

Health Information outreach and exhibiting in the greater Detroit area for underserved and underrepresented populations. *Host NLM traveling exhibit Confronting Violence, Improving 92's Lives March 18-April 22, 2017 at the Shiffman Medical Library. *World AIDS Day Detroit:

Funds from this award will be used to attend the Medical Library Association Conference in Seattle on May 26-31, 2017. A poster abstract I submitted was accepted and I would like to attend to present the poster. The poster represents a health and wellness community collaborative developed and implemented at the Munson Community Health Library in Traverse City, Michigan.

The Kathleen A. Zar Symposium is a biennial event held at the John Crerar Library of the University of Chicago. The 2017 Zar Symposium, 'Open Data: Science, Health, Community,' is intended for all who are involved or interested in open data, such as librarians and 133s. This award will be used to support the travel of Symposium speakers, who are traveling from both coasts and the southwest.