Past Funded Projects

The goal of the project is to obtain extra laptops so the ASSIST Volunteers, as well as the Community Resource Partners, will have the ability to connect more Care Receivers to community resources using technology that they may be unable to afford or navigate on their own. In this way, ASSIST can increase their effectiveness in their outreach to the needy in 95 Flathead County. The main audience to benefit from our proposed technology improvements will be the Care Receivers. Care Receivers are previous patients who have been discharged from the hospital and are now in their home.

The Public Library Association PLA will educate PLA members and other public library staff about implicit bias's connection to health equity and foster a deeper understanding of health literacy as a tool to address health equity within vulnerable communities. We will do this through multiple continuing education and promotional activities, including an Institute at the ALA 2019 Midwinter Meeting, a webinar, a Public Libraries journal article or other publication such as Quick Reads and podcast, and more.

The library will purchase 3 Kindles that have been pre- loaded with quality books on health topics that are significant to the people in this area.

Attend the Transforming Research Conference, being held September 26-27, 2019 in Washington DC. As a library professional this conference provides an opportunity to engage in discussions into practices, policies, and methods that will enable 133s understand its own impact. This conference attracts people from a wide variety of disciplines academic librarians, library administrators, 133s, curators, and representatives from different institutions.

Exhibit at the Tennessee Public Health Association Annual Conference

Research shows Native Americans continue to fall far behind all other ethnic groups in King County, Washington, with regards to health care disparities. Poor outcome indicators, in high rates of heart disease, diabetes, mental health, and violence, are among signicant consequences. Among a short list of prioritized new directions, three planning goals define our approach to providing health awareness and the acquisition to health care resources.

LSU Health Shreveport has a unique way of reaching the people attending this conference and engaging them because of our Amazing Captain Fit. This is a fantastic opportunity to hand out materials to a diverse population.

Congratulations to Samantha Kennefick! She was awarded a Professional Development Award for LIS students to attend MCMLA 2019 in Omaha, NE.

Citizen Science Game Day is a project for public libraries and other NNLM members to promote citizen science and to engage with library users. The project includes an embeddable Project Finder that libraries can implement on their websites.

This course is a three-day session held at Northwestern Universitys Galter Health Sciences Library, where 25 librarians and research professionals will come together to learn from experts in using publication and citation-based statistics that are being brought in from Leiden Universitys Centre for Science and Technology Studies CWTS. The information page for the course is at https://www.cwts.nl/education/bibliometrics-and-scientometrics-for-rese….

Exhibit at Remote Area Medical RAM Clinic, Wise, VA

Professional Development Award to attend NNLM Seminar on Consumer Health 6/21/2019

Professional Development Award to attend NNLM Seminar on Consumer Health 6/21/2019

Professional Development Award to attend NNLM Seminar on Consumer health 6/21/2019

Professional Development Award to attend Library Institute of the Oregon Library Association LIOLA June 18-21

Professional Development Award to attend NNLM Seminar on Consumer Health 6/21/2019

The conference is the 2019 Northern California/Nevada Medical Library Group and the Medical Library Group of Southern California/Arizona Joint Meeting, with a conference theme of Critical Health Sciences Librarianship: Examining our Role in Social Justice. Attending this conference will meet institutional goals in several ways. System Library Services serves all of Providence St. Joseph Health, including our California locations. As the Digital Asset Librarian I manage our institutional repository and research metric tracking, including for California.

The NLM traveling exhibit Graphic Medicine: Ill Conceived and Well-Drawn! will be hosted at the East Tennessee State University Medical Library in Johnson City, TN from April 29, 2019-June 8, 2019. The exhibit consists of 6 banners on stands. From the exhibit's website: "Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn! explores an increasingly popular, yet little-known literary field that presents personal illness narratives and health information through the medium of comics.

The Making County-Level Health Data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable FAIR Initiative will consist of three phases in order to establish and sustain an online interface for local health professionals and librarians to access and analyze county-level health assessment data, as well as educate these individuals on utilizing this resource and creating their own data management plans.

Award to attend May 6-9, 2018 United States Public Health Service Annual Symposium in Minneapolis, MN

Attend the Managing from the Middle Symposium at the Medical Library Association 2019 Annual Meeting. The Symposium covers topics relevant to medical library leaders including diversity and inclusion, crafting compelling communications, leading during times of change, and navigating difficult relationships.

The goal of the proposed 'Essentials' workshop project is to guide older 88, as well as their families and caregivers, in the identification, evaluation, and use of essential online resources for informed consumer health decision-making. The Westchester Library System WLS will deliver a series of workshops to engage and educate older 88 in the use of online health information resources available from the National Library of MedicineNLM and other selected providers.

isaster Preparedness in vulnerable populations is reliant on their access to information to properly establish their personal disaster preparedness plans. Humanity Road is interested in improving the use of technology for health information access, especially to underserved and underrepresented populations in the SE Atlantic area. Our goal is to reach vulnerable populations including over 55, 92, and disabled to educate them on how to leverage online resources with the NLM to improve their personal preparedness plan.

Libraries Without Borders LWB will facilitate health literacy programs inside laundromats in 3 new counties in Minnesota as part of LWBs Wash & Learn Initiative WALI. Implementing partners include the Minnesota State Library Services, the Saint-Paul Public Library, the Anoka County Library, and the Scott County Library. LWB will write and publish 3 case studies drawn from each county, highlighting best practices, We will share these findings across Minnesota through LWBs partnership with the State Library Services.

Our ultimate goal is to develop a models for building public library-community collaborations with diverse racial/ethnic/cultural communities which support community usage of libraries and library programs as sources for health information. We define health as the Seven Domains of Health physical, emotional, environmental, social, intellectual, financial, and spiritual.

Libraries Without Borders LWB will facilitate health literacy programs inside laundromats in 3 new counties in Minnesota as part of LWB's Wash & Learn Initiative WALI. Implementing partners include the Minnesota State Library Services, the Saint-Paul Public Library, the Anoka County Library, and the Scott County Library. LWB will write and publish 3 case studies drawn from each county, highlighting best practices, We will share these findings across Minnesota through LWB's partnership with the State Library Services.

Remote Area Medical RAM Volunteer Corps at Gray, TN Nov 2-4, 2018 We will have a table with printed handouts on specific conditions and general wellness for the patients waiting to receive medical care. We will also search onsite for individual consumer health questions. We will also have consumer health forms if someone wants us to search more in depth on a topic.

Health literacy is a critical pathway to better health outcomes. Yet for countless low-income families, health resources like those on MedlinePlus are simply out of reach. Some are unaware of its existence while others simply lack the digital skills to find what they're looking for. By meeting people where they arewhile waiting at the laundromatLibraries Without Borders LWB strives to empower low-income families with the information they seek in a manner that conforms to their everyday schedule.

Remote Area Medical RAM Volunteer Corps at Wise, VA July 20-22, 2018 We will provide consumer health information request forms and Medline Plus promotional materials to assist the medical providers at RAM. In previous years, we typically have sent information on 400+ consumer health questions.

Prevention education of youth is a challenging field, with little evidence on effectiveness. The love of games on phones and iPads is evident in our current society. This application is in support of the development of an alcohol, tobacco and drug prevention game targeted at youth. It will be available for download through the iTunes App store. Other alcohol and drug prevention games are more straight education and scenario-based.