Past Funded Projects

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.

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.

Funding will directly support honorariums and/or travel expenses of instructors who will teach MLA CE classes for the 2018 MAC Annual Meeting in Ocean City, MD.

To enable Southern Chapter/MLA to support and host multiple CE courses and offerings during the annual meeting in Orlando, FL, Oct. 25-28, 2018, for the benefit of members who register for the courses. The funding will help defray the expense of bringing in CE instructors and thus allow SC/MLA to lower the CE registration costs for attendees. These courses will also have MLA approved CE points offered for members to count toward AHIP certification.

Access to reliable health information for vulnerable populations: Vulnerable populations often reflect diversity from a number of perspectives. Diversity is frequently defined by social and demographic characteristics such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. As PPL considers those segments of our patron and user base who are most vulnerable, we believe this initiative can serve the needs of Portland's teen population, homeless population, and the Immigrant/refugee segments of our community.

Gale Medical Library at Littleton Regional Healthcare in Littleton, New Hampshire, requests funds from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine-New England Region's Sub Award Request for Proposal to establish health sciences library services across a 4-hospital affiliation in 95, underserved Coos County in northern New Hampshire. Among the four North Country Healthcare hospitals the affiliation, Littleton Regional is the lone hospital with a full service health sciences library.

JCLC brings together a diverse group of librarians, library staff, library supporters, and community participants to explore issues of diversity in libraries and how they affect the ethnic communities who use our services.

The 3rd National Joint Conference of Librarians of Color in 2018, 'Gathering all Peoples: Embracing Culture & Community' will take place September 26-30, 2018 at the Albuquerque Convention Center in New Mexico.

Award will help public librarian help her institution provide library and information literacy instruction services for students and faculty in the Bachelor of Science in Midwifery program. As a solo librarian, the conference will increase her knowledge and skills in order to provide better instruction, provide better research assistance, improve health information delivery and access, and advocate more effectively for the library.

This is the annual conference of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association. The keynote panel is ''Health Data in Research.' The CE courses are 'Advanced PubMed Techniques', 'Searching Effectively and Efficiently', 'Emerging Technologies for the Busy Librarian' and 'Statistics 101.' I am scheduled to give a lightening talk at this conference. I originally proposed a poster presentation but I offered to change to a lightning talk when I heard the conference organizers needed one more for the schedule.

PNC/MLA Annual Meeting 2018; October 14th-16th 2018 in Spokane, WA. The annual meeting of the regional MLA chapter is great opportunity for networking and knowledge exchange, with regional colleagues. Applicant's organization, Kaiser Permanente, is not currently funding travel for continuing education, so NNLM PNR funding would enable me to attend the conference, continuing education courses and participate in the poster presentation co-authored poster accepted to conference.

The exhibit will be held at a table at TPHA and will include multiple handouts created by NLM that cover different relevant NLM databases and products. Specific handouts included will cover PubMed, NLM mobile resources, and more. The exhibit will also include a banner advertising medical library services.

HSLI wishes to offer several classes to attendees at the annual conference. The class list includes: Building Partnerships with Faculty, Clinicians, and other Stakeholders 4 MLA CE, presented by Gwen Wilson, MLS, AHIP, Health Informatics Coordinator/Librarian at Washburn University in Topeka, KS. This course is designed for those Interested in strategies on building partnerships that lead to collaborative projects. The class will discuss barriers to building partnerships and detailed plans to help overcome these obstacles.

The physical exhibit will have a tent, two tables, a standing display, a computer, IPAD, and a display board. We will have Medlineplus bookmarks and Medlineplus brochures on the tables.