Past Funded Projects

The proposed project aims to promote wellness in the Show Low, Arizona, area by providing resources for healthy cooking, exercise classes, hands-on classes, and forming a 'Healthy Living' club. The Show Low Public Library will make available for check-out a variety of kitchen equipment needed to encourage healthy cooking. Objectives include developing a Healthy Living Club for families and young 86. This club will provide information on how to be more active, healthy recipes that are kid-friendly, and exercise opportunities.

This project will offer mobile health literacy training to library staff and the public throughout the five county 95 area of Western New York State that experiences significant health and economic disparities. The Sourthern Tier Library System serves 48 public libraries, their staff, and trustees. Our library consultants provide professional development opportunities, training, and resources to enable libraries to better serve their communities.

To enable Southern Chapter/MLA to support and host a recommended and well recognized speaker on data management, Shirley Zhao, during the annual meeting in Orlando, FL Oct. 25-28,2018, for the benefit of all members of the Southern Chapter/MLA who are able to attend the regional conference. The funding will help defray the expense of bringing in Mrs. Zhao as well as covering her speaking fee.

In 2017, UT Health San Antonio Libraries received an NN/LM SCR Express Outreach Award to provide the Youth Health Literacy Challenge, a program in which activity logs and calendars were distributed to youth participating in the North East Independent School District NEISD Summer Food Service Program, or Summer Feeding Program, at four San Antonio Public Library SAPL branches.

Girls Inc. of Worcester seeks support from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine to deliver a 9 month Healthy Communities Mapping Project. This mapping project will empower 90 high school students enrolled in Eureka!, our 5-year STEM science, technology, engineering, and math college and career readiness program, to discover, map out, and engage with health resources in the Greater Worcester community, using innovative technology.

Funding will directly support honorariums and/or travel expenses of members of the leadership panel who will speak at the 2018 MAC Annual Meeting in Ocean City, MD.

Health sciences librarians have been involved with systematic reviews since this publication type was first introduced in the 1990s. A recent article published in the January 2018 issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA identifies 18 roles where librarians can be involved in the systematic review process. Additionally, this article acknowledges that library and information professionals play an integral role in systematic review support beyond the traditional expert searching role at their institutions.

This project seeks to make accessible for students health and citizen science curriculum by creating a robust educational learning experience across grade levels. These will be in the areas of health and nutrition, Human Anatomy, ecology, and data collection. Learning will incorporate resources from the National Library of Medicine and the Research Program. Programming will be done in conjunction with the Shrewsbury, MA Public Library

Attend and participate in the ALA Midwinter session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

The Comics and Medicine 2018 Conference seeks to engage health providers, health information professionals, artists, academics and members of the local community in the use of comics as a resource to provide accessible health information and communicate health-related experiences. This year's conference theme is 'The Ways We Work' and will offer panel discussions and oral presentations on the ways that graphic medicine is being practiced by teachers, librarians, healthcare professionals and artists.

Attend and participate in ALA Midwinter session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

In the past year I have become intensely interested in the role of libraries in strengthening the health literacy of the communities we serve. After attending the "Stand Up for Health" preconference program at the 2018 PLA Conference, I came away with a desire to help increase my efforts in promoting health literacy to the staff of the 48 public libraries I work with in the Southern Tier of NY State.

Attend and participate in ALA Midwinter session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

The purpose of this project is to begin developing the health literacy skills necessary for incorporating guidelines into existing or newly developed materials,including by not limited to written publications. Through self-selection, health care professionals, community health 12s, and others who work directly with informational delivery to diverse audiences will be afforded the opportunity to participate in an introductory workshop on health literacy and developing easy-to-read text-based health information.