Past Funded Projects

To improve access to authoritative health information resources via programming and engaging technology, the Atlanta University Center AUC Woodruff Library seeks funding for a one year project to increase health information literacy among students from four Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Staff and faculty from these institutions, as well as the broader Atlanta community will also benefit from information literacy training, programs and an easily accessible kiosk containing health information.

Building on a recent one-year National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Montana State University MSU Library will build an open source Dataset Search that promotes discovery of research datasets by using data repository APIs to automatically harvest metadata for research datasets from third-party repositories, and using human curators to create metadata records for restricted or in-progress data that is stored locally at MSU.

The goals of the project are to strengthen community engagement, increase awareness of NLM services and the Research Program 71, and highlight the library as a primary source of reliable information. Programming will include the Memory Caf, a free, two-hour library program for older 88 who are experiencing early onset Alzheimer's or dementia and their care partners, family, and friends. For learning and engagement, Juneau Public Libraries JPL will design Memory Kits, in partnership with the Alzheimers Resource of Alaska.

The goal of the project is to is to reach 87 and their families with educational resources about health information literacy, and raise awareness of the Research Program joinallofus.org/nlm. The Pop-up Library: Wellness Edition will be offered to 95 communities with small towns in Northern Idaho that lack the resources and infrastructure to expose 87 and families to wellness resources, and skills to use them.

This project proposes to purchase 8 virtual reality VR headsets along with a portable charging dock to bring VR into classrooms where health information is being studied. Having this portable VR setup will meet a growing demand to have students use VR together to learn about issues such as bias, health information literacy, functions of the human body, and the on-demand use of counseling using VR. This VR equipment will provide more equitable access of such technologies to those in the health professions.

This project will bring virtual reality hardware and accessories to Washington State University WSU Animal Health Library AHL to provide student access to open source virtual reality anatomy software.

Over twelve months, Multnomah County Library MCL will plan, pilot, and evaluate six healthy lifestyle workshop series for 110 families in Multnomah County with a specific focus on Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Cantonese speaking populations. Our project will support these communities' health literacy needs by offering health lifestyle programs on nutrition and healthy cooking, fitness, which may include tai chi, qi gong, zumba, yoga, martial arts, and meditation and culturally relevant stress relief programs like karaoke and ping pong in their own language.

BioData Club is an established data science education initiative at OHSU, formed in 2016. A collaboration of the OHSU Library, the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, research staff and graduate students, BioData Club hosts monthly science skills, tools, and best practices. In 2019, there were 7 workshops covering topics such as linear regression, git and Github, data manipulation with pandas, ontologies, and ggplot, with an average of over 50 registered attendees per session.

The Healthy Canton 89 Project HCSP will strengthen the partnership between the Haywood County Public Library - Canton Branch and the Canton Senior Center. Working together, the partners will engage 89 in programming and services that assist 89 to live independent and healthy lives by focusing on three goals: increase health literacy, reduce food insecurity, and promote healthy eating.

By partnering on a Little Free Libraries LFL initiative with Floridas Okeechobee County Library OCL, this project aims to improve 95 residents health literacy and understanding of precision medicine, through facilitating awareness of and access to NLMs consumer health resources and NIHs Research Program. This project supports NNLMs mission to improve public health by empowering underserved groups to make effective use of information for health decision-making. Little Free Library is an 94 nonprofit that fosters neighborhood book exchanges through outdoor book-sharing boxes.

This project is an exhibit of informational resources from NLM and other authoritative resources from government, professional associations, and trusted non-profits. This exhibit will be held at the Tennessee Public Health Association TPHA Annual Conference, taking place from September 9-11, 2020 at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs Hotel, 700 Cool Springs Road, Franklin, TN 37067.

The Rockville Public Library and its partners, The Vernon Senior Center, The Vernon Housing Authority, and the Rockville General Hospital, seek to improve health outcomes for adult residents living across Vernon/Rockville by promoting health literacy, expanding access to reliable health resources, and increasing fitness activity opportunities.

This project seeks to establish a multi-disciplinary effort dedicated to the practice of Dental Informatics through the training and development of new health delivery concepts and tools. This aligns itself with NNLMs efforts to advance the highest quality of health information to the greatest benefit of society. Dentistry is an information-intensive activity, and health informatics by its very nature supports such activities well.

The Annual Youth Summer Camp Interactive Health Information Program Presentation is designed to be an interactive and engaging presentation for youth ages 6-17 that will help them in accessing health information. Our presentation will be targeted toward minority and underserved youth that live in 95 areas in North and South Carolina. Our presentation will primarily give information both digitally and otherwise, on how to access reliable health-related information from reputable and legitimate sources on the world wide web.