This page includes awards made during the current NNLM award period (May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2026).
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Current Projects
| Project Title | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridging Knowledge in Wayne County, NC | UNC Wayne | The primary goal of the Bridging Knowledge project is to increase both health and digital equity within Wayne County, NC by the use of grant-provided technology in a series of community partnership programs. This will be achieved by working with both the general community and new graduate nurses. In community partnership with Wayne County Public Library, a series of classes will cover a variety of health literacy programs focusing on the National Library of Medicine (NLM) of MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.… | North Carolina | ||
| Bringing the Best Health Information to Alaska’s Distant Communities | University of Alaska Anchorage Medical Library | The primary goal of the project is to improve the quality of life and health for Alaska’s citizens by providing information outreach services to the healthcare workforce and to public libraries, especially in rural areas, over a five-year period from May 2021 through April 2026. Access to quality biomedical information will support health professionals in their care of patients. With outreach to healthcare facilities, the Alaska Medical Library (AML) fulfills one component of the Network of the National Library of Medicine’s (NNLM) mission to… | Alaska | ||
| Bringing the Best Health Information to Alaska’s Distant Communities | University of Alaska Anchorage Medical Library | The primary goal of the project is to improve the quality of life and health for Alaska’s citizens by providing information outreach services to the healthcare workforce and to public libraries, especially in rural areas, over a five-year period from May 2021 through April 2026. Access to quality biomedical information will support health professionals in their care of patients. With outreach to healthcare facilities, the Alaska Medical Library (AML) fulfills one component of the Network of the National Library of Medicine’s (NNLM) mission to… | Alaska | ||
| Bringing the Best Health Information to Alaska’s Distant Communities | University of Alaska Anchorage Medical Library | The primary goal of the project is to improve the quality of life and health for Alaska’s citizens by providing information outreach services to the healthcare workforce and to public libraries, especially in rural areas, over a five-year period from May 2021 through April 2026. Access to quality biomedical information will support health professionals in their care of patients. With outreach to healthcare facilities, the Alaska Medical Library (AML) fulfills one component of the Network of the National Library of Medicine’s (NNLM) mission to… | Alaska | ||
| Building A Healthy BKLYN | Brooklyn Public Library | Through the Building A Healthy BKLYN program, Brooklyn Public Library (BPL)’s goals are to: 1) Partner with the NNLM All of Us Program Center and Weill Cornell/NewYork-Presbyterian to provide monthly engagements, pop-up enrollment events, presentations, and staff trainings to connect with community members and encourage enrollment and retention in the All of Us Research Program; 2) Improve the health outcomes of Brooklyn’s 2.7 million residents through education and access to reliable, trustworthy information. 3) Increase the… | New York | ||
| Building Adolescent Skills in Health Literacy and Public Health Advocacy | Boston Children’s Hospital | The Building Adolescent Skills in Health Literacy and Public Health Advocacy program aims to protect and improve the health of the adolescent population as it… | Massachusetts | ||
| Building Bridges with Libraries Serving Native and Rural Communities in Montana | Montana State University - Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity | Montana communities, particularly Native and rural communities, face severe health disparitiesthat affect health equity and quality of life among its citizens. The Building BridgesAmbassadors and Consulting Librarians team will work to achieve threeprimary goals during the project period. Goal One: The team will attend NNLM Region 4 meetings andwill contribute to reports, blogs, and other outputs (e.g., health infographics) as discussed at these meetings. They will work to advise and share with the Region 4 Team about ways to engage with Native and rural communities in Montana and… | Montana | ||
| Building Capacity Among Librarians for Machine Learning Applications to Bibliographic Data | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | This project will develop an open access, web-based user interface for machine learning tools currently in use as desktop applications by UNC Health Sciences Library (HSL) and create an accompanying full-day curriculum to be delivered to research librarians at multiple institutions at no cost. This funding will allow UNC HSL to share their expertise with other institutions around applying these innovative approaches to analyzing bibliographic data. Machine learning approaches in use at UNC HSL include… | |||
| Building resilience to health misinformation in San Diego County, California, communities: An online outreach toolkit for library workers | University of California, San Diego | BACKGROUND: Health misinformation negatively impacts our informed health awareness, decision-making, and adherence to public health measures (Surgeon General, 2021). Consequently, San Diego County, California, declared health misinformation a public health crisis. Libraries in our region can support the County’s campaign to counteract health misinformation through information literacy support and resource access. GOAL: We aim to develop an online outreach toolkit that helps San Diego County library workers (public, academic, and school) launch an… | California | ||
| Celebrating Puerto Rican Cuisine in Sacramento Through Nutrition Education and Cooking Classes | Sacramento Public Library | Sacramento Public Library will partner with the NNLM All of Us Program Center and All of Us Research Program to participate in an author event during National Nutrition Month, participate in outreach, and distribute information about All of Us in order to engage with community members in enrollment and retention for the All of Us Research Program. | California | ||
| Challenging racism within the context of dental care through ethnic and local media and with libraries as safe, neutral spaces for reaching medically underserved populations | San Francisco State University | Dental and oral health-care outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities present a stark divide between populations able to access regular dental care, and communities struggling to receive basic and sometimes lifesaving treatment. The public health challenge of racism will be explored within the context of dental care and through the space of public libraries and the participation of ethnic and local media as influential community members. This project — stemming from a larger prospective research effort currently under NIH review (R21 DE032161-… | California | ||
| Challis Public Library Telehealth and Health Care Information Education Center | Challis Public Library | The Challis Public Library is in the final stages of adding a telehealth privacy pod inside the public library. The objective is to have a place where patrons, and the general public, including temporary workers and travelers, could access health care providers in the privacy of the pod within our library. We would also like to build our health care collection to provide current health care education materials for patrons to borrow from the library and better understand conditions they or a loved one might be experiencing. Health care education materials will help build the library… | Idaho | ||
| Coastal Center Library and Information Outreach | Parents and Guardians Association of the Coastal Center | The following outreach program aims to enhance the quality of life and health for individuals with disabilities in South Carolina by providing access to high-quality health information and resources. The project aims to promote awareness of healthier special needs citizens and communities in our state. Our team plans to achieve this through a physical and online library that will be populated with information resources and other high quality, easy to use, and applicable online resources for individuals with disabilities and their caregivers. We will pay… | South Carolina | ||
| Colección para Elevar Voces Latinas/Latines | Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center Library | We acknowledge that ORPARC’s physical library sits on the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands belonging to indigenous peoples since time immemorial, and services all of Oregon… | Oregon | ||
| Collection Equity | Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Long Lake Public Library | Develop collections to address health information needs in the community. | New York | ||
| Collection Equity | Worcester Polytechnic Institute - George C. Gordon Library | The Gordon Library intends to purchase resources that address mental health issues and will foster more discussion and support within the WPI community. In the past six months, WPI has lost 7 students due to suicide, https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/01/25/wpi-student-death-is- 7th-in-last-6-months/ and the university administration has responded by increasing the number of student counselors and support groups for students (https://www.wpi.edu/student- experience/resources/be-well-together) The Library will consult with the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the… | Massachusetts | ||
| Collection Equity | University of New Hampshire - Dimond Library | In the past few years, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) launched several initiatives to address diversity, equity, and inclusion at the campus level and at the state level. The UNH Institute on Disability in collaboration with the departments of Social Work and Education recently launched the Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (TIPP) certificate in response to a growing need for training and education around trauma-informed care for children with emotional and behavioral health challenges, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and other learning disabilities. The TIPP… | New Hampshire | ||
| Collection Equity | Winter Harbor Public Library | In order for the public to make informed decisions about their health, they not only need the ability to read and understand current information about healthy eating and active living, they need to see it in their community, to do the actions such as walking and to have clear resources of how to incorporate the knowledge into their real life. Getting their hands onto the most understandable reading is only a singular key to successfully making the changes in their lives. To pull groups in the community together to provide lessons learned through stories and walking… | Maine | ||
| Collection Equity | James A. Tuttle Library | We are a small rural library located in the southwest corner of New Hampshire and we have a population of 2,600 residents as of the 2010 United States Census. Our annual operating budget from the town is $173,852.00. We recently started Friends of the James A. Tuttle Library a 501 (c) 3 non-profit that we hope will generate funds in the future. The demographic in Antrim, NH are as follows: 97.4% Caucasian, 2.6% other including Black, Asian, and Native American. We are an older community with an average age of 43.9 Antrim has a Main Street dotted with small businesses, a library, a… | New Hampshire | ||
| Collection Equity | Moultonborough Public Library | We plan on purchases books related to aging, general health, retirement, and longevity. These resources will be placed on a special shelf and highlighted in our catalog so they are easy to find. We also plan to purchase multiple copies of the three books found on the NNLM website specifically to use for book discussions. We will be contacting health providers to see if they would like to be part of the discussions and to answer questions related to the topics found in those books. Our goal is to engage seniors with resources related to health topics and to start… | New Hampshire | ||
| Collection Equity | Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts - Freel Library | As MCLA, Massachusetts’ public liberal arts college, prepares to launch a new Bachelor of Science in Nursing with the first students entering in Fall 2023, our library is presented with the opportunity to build a truly inclusive nursing collection from the ground up. We envision using a Collection Equity Award to purchase books falling into three categories: nursing resources authored by scholars and practitioners from traditionally marginalized groups; books specifically addressing the… | Massachusetts | ||
| Collection Equity | University of Southern Maine - Albert Brenner Glickman Family Library | Our goal in seeking this award is to improve the resources available to students of the University of Southern Maine to learn about health equity narratives, stories, and issues, especially as they pertain to clinical practice and care challenges affecting Maine. To this end, Glickman Library would use this award to add resources to our collection that are centered on issues of rural healthcare, health of refugee and immigrant communities in Southern Maine, and indigenous health, focusing on both academic texts and personal stories. USM graduates students in the… | Maine | ||
| Collection Equity | University of Maine at Augusta - Bennett D. Katz Library | If awarded a Collection Equity Award, the funds will be spent on developing a collection of graphic medicine materials that will be added to the circulating stacks of the Bennett D. Katz Library on the campus of the University of Maine at Augusta (UMA). The goal in acquiring graphic medicine materials is two-fold: 1.) to increase students’ understanding of medical topics for their academic success, and 2.) increase students’ empathy and communication as patient-educators. The use of graphic medicine in the curricula of a handful of US and UK medical schools has… | Maine | ||
| Collection Equity | Providence Community Library | This award will allow us to purchase materials and books to support and engage the social emotional wellness and literacy of our young patrons and their families. A collection of picture books will be purchased that support social-emotional development, teach empathy and skills to cope with life’s challenges, as well as picture books that specifically represent children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, dyslexia, anxiety, grief and other mental health disorders. Providence Community Library (PCL) is composed of nine neighborhood libraries. Three of these are… | Rhode Island | ||
| Collection Equity | New York College of Podiatric Medicine | The New York College of Podiatric Medicine (NYCPM) is committed to raise its’ organizational health literacy level among faculty, staff, and students to step up the organization’s ability to meet Healthy Objectives 2030, specifically targeting the Health Literacy Related Objectives. The New York College of Podiatric Medicine (NYCPM) is committed in improving patient communication skills among the podiatric medical student and strengthening ways for patients to be more involved in decisions about their health care. We would like to train our faculty, staff, and… | New York | ||
| Collection Equity | University of Connecticut - Lyman Maynard Stowe Library | The University of Connecticut has made diversity, equity, and inclusion a priority throughout all campuses. The UConn Health Sciences Library shares this deep commitment to DEI. As we look towards our future, we envision the growth of the library, including improved re-organizational goals. DEI is a central component to making the growth and restructuring of our collections happen in order to make positive changes for our library. We will increase representation of historically underrepresented groups. With this grant in mind, we are seeking financial assistance through the… | Connecticut | ||
| Collection Equity | Maine Medical Center - MaineHealth | We would review our collection and also the statewide catalog to find gaps in available print book or ebook, video and ejournal resources on issues of health equity, particularly in regards to Native American, rural health, immigrant and refugee and LGBTQ populations. Items will be made available via our statewide catalog for checkout to our health system community and to all Maine residents. Our collection goals will be to include titles that emphasize marginalized voices in memoir, fiction, narrative and graphic depiction. | Maine | ||
| Collection Equity | New Haven Free Public Library, Ives Main Library | The New Haven Public Library (Library) recognizes its role as a contributor to community health. The Collection Equity Award would allow the Library to increase access to health, medical, and wellness resources and materials that serve a diverse and multilingual urban population. We strive to eliminate common barriers to health equity and health literacy by offering a range of fitness, nutrition, and life-cycle educational programs. The Library's "On Death and Dying" series was well-attended (approximately 50 participants) and received… | Connecticut | ||
| Collection Equity Award | Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center Library | We acknowledge that ORPARC’s physical library sits on the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands belonging to indigenous peoples since time immemorial, and that our library resources serve the entire state of Oregon | Oregon | ||
| Collection Equity Award | University of California San Francisco | Building on our specialized history and expertise, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Library plans to use the NNLM Region 5 Collection Equity Award to acquire a collection of graphic novels about health topics, i.e., graphic medicine. As medical humanities and similar interdisciplinary studies have gained wider scholastic recognition, academic health sciences libraries have begun… | California |