Past Funded Projects

Award will help public librarian recipient attend MLA Symposium/Health Information for Public Librarians 2018. Description: The symposium, of interest to both public librarians and health sciences librarians, offers programming in the area of health information for the public. It also provides a unique opportunity for public and health sciences librarians to network.

The Public Librarian Symposium at the Medical Library Association MLA offers a unique opportunity for public librarians to receive education about health information and provide an introduction to National Library of Medicine resources and the National Network of Libraries' of Medicine. The symposium overlaps with the last day and a half of MLA's annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, and can be followed by an optional half day education boot camp for the Consumer Health Information Specialization CHIS organized by the GMR.

Award will help public librarian recipient attend MLA Symposium/Health Information for Public Librarians 2018. Description: The symposium, of interest to both public librarians and health sciences librarians, offers programming in the area of health information for the public. It also provides a unique opportunity for public and health sciences librarians to network.

The provision of health education in clinic and physician office waiting rooms is not new; however, it is usually done by use of printed materials and/or passive video presentations. This project explores the feasibility of using live presentations to teach medication safety to parents and caregivers in the waiting area of an ambulatory care clinic at a busy 98 teaching hospital. The presentations will be given by a team of three university students using the library's portable Sharp Interactive Display System purchased with an earlier NNLM grant.

The overall goal of the proposed project is to strengthen and enhance access to local and national health information resources for the Washoe County, NV, community of 89 and senior caregivers, and to improve the capacity of regional caregivers to incorporate health information resources and health literacy best practices into patient care discharge planning and care management.

The Outreach Services Department of the St. Charles Public Library will partner with Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University to develop and deliver presentations on healthcare and medical topics at senior facilities in the St. Charles, Illinois community. As members of the Library's Outreach Services Department, we visit nine senior facilities, three homecare facilities, and fifteen homebound patrons a month. Outreach Services also provides weekly, biweekly, and monthly programs at seven senior facilities, engaging over two hundred and fifty patrons per month.

The Indiana Prevention Resource Center, part of the Department of Applied Health Science, School of Public Health, Indiana University-Bloomington, proposes to develop an e-resources database devoted solely to the topic of the current opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on Indiana, that will feature as subthemes from the homepage educational materials on how to judge the quality of health information resources and links to highlighted NLM materials.

Funding agencies such as National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health are increasingly requiring data management plans DMPs in grant proposals. In response to these funding agency mandates, academic libraries are increasingly providing data management services to university 133s. A better understanding of the impact of DMPs on grant awards and grant-funded research will enhance library data services for academic 133s, promote data stewardship and data sharing, and could potentially increase 133s' competitiveness for grant awards.

Major funding agencies have stipulated that data from funded research should be made available for retrieval and secondary analysis. Many journals are following suit, requiring authors to share supporting data. 133s have reservations about sharing their data however, expressing concerns about the cost involved to make the data available, maintaining patient's privacy, overcoming commercial contract restrictions, and/or fears of proper attribution, wrongful use, or competition.

Stereolithography SLA technology is an important 3D technology for medicine because of its accuracy and print capabilities. Anatomy modeling and device prototyping pose some challenges to clients currently using our Lulzbot Taz 5 Fused Deposition Modeling FDM 3D printer. While the existing printer has been a wonderful learning and teaching tool, we wish to expand our outreach to the Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program HPREP with a more precise technology that provides for usage and exploration in our Digital Media Production Studio.

The goal of the project is to enhance the health and wellness of MidAmerica Nazarene University students. This will be accomplished by addressing the following objectives: 1 providing students with current, relevant health information, and 2 providing students with current, useful information about campus life. Thus, the two outcomes of the project will be students who: 1 are empowered to make more informed and healthy lifestyle choices, and 2 have a stronger sense of identity within the university community.

The project aims to increase the community's awareness of precision medicine. Over a three-year period, a series of informational programs will be implemented to introduce the fundamentals of precision medicine. The informational programs will discuss the connections between biology, health and lifestyle, the environment as well as, the collection and use of patients' health information on mobile devices.

The creation of an online exhibit based on Stony Brook University Libraries' Dental Instruments: Past and Present will make important resources for research and teaching in the fields of dental history, material cultural studies, advertisement studies, and the medical humanities more widely available.

Our goal is to inform the community of available access to health resources and information. We will increase community awareness of health information access, issues, and available resources by holding a Health Fair at the Washington County Library, St. George Branch. The objective of the fair is to promote information for healthy living, help expose our community to health resources such as the NNLM, and partner with local health professionals to create an understanding of the community health network.

Serving as a partner outreach library for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine's Greater Midwest Region office. Work includes instruction and promotion of National Library of Medicine resources on behalf of the office.

Medical Data and Me Community Awareness Project: Project partners will plan and develop a series of interactive educational programs to inform and engage the community in related activities and research involved in precision medicine. Over a three-year timeline participants will be introduced to the technologies, techniques, and key participants in precision medicine activities specifically the collection of consumer health information and data culminating in a daylong symposium in year-three.

The project explores the feasibility of using live presentations to teach medication safety to parents and caregivers in the waiting area of an ambulatory care clinic at a busy 98 teaching hospital, St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, NY 10457. The presentations will be given by a team of three university students using the library's portable Sharp Interactive Display System purchased with an earlier NNLM grant. The system's split screen feature will allow for simultaneous presentation of English and Spanish materials.

This project proposes the creation of a bioinformatics and health informatics portal to primarily serve students, professors, 133s, clinicians and 125 at the Medical Science Campus, University of Puerto Rico MSC-UPR and eventually to all medical community in the island. Currently, there is not up-to-date source of information on these subjects in Puerto Rico. Then, there is a need of a portal with access to bioinformatics and health informatics information and tools oriented to medical sciences institutions, as well as the medical and general community.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC Health Sciences Library HSL will implement a pilot data catalog to facilitate discovery, access, and re-use of UNC-generated genomic data produced by research projects funded by NIH and other federal agencies. A 2014 UNC Genomics Data Task Force assessed UNC's data stewardship needs and recommended a data catalog as critical need. This project will be the first initiative to pursue the task force's recommendation.

The leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 46 is trauma a disabling or life-threatening physical injury that results from an event such as a motor vehicle crash, gun violence, or a fall . The City of Nashua and partners look to promote 1 awareness of this phenomenon and reduce the likelihood of death or permanent injury due to trauma through conducting 'Stop the Bleed' initiatives in our libraries.

Data sharing is essential for expedited translation of research results into knowledge, products and procedures to improve human health.1 The Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore UMB will implement a data catalog to facilitate the discovery of data sets created by UMB 133s. The project will provide an outreach opportunity to increase awareness on campus of the importance of data management, data sharing, and provide 133s with a venue for showcasing their work.

The proposed Research Data Management program is designed to provide training, tools and strategies for medical libraries seeking to develop research data management services. This program provides a holistic approach to developing data services that focuses on building the required knowledge base, understanding and connecting with 133s, promoting effective outreach strategies, and integrating with the broader institutional data community.

The Alternative Peer Group APG is a comprehensive adolescent recovery support model that integrates recovering peers and prosocial activities into evidence-based clinical practice.They are a critical piece of the care continuum that support adolescents outside of school.

The Science & Technology Division of the Akron Ohio-Summit County Public Library plans to create a multi-week program of loaning wearable fitness trackers to groups of people for the purpose of encouraging regular and sustained increase in physical activity.

Get Data @ Duke GD@D will create a searchable, centralized, publicly-accessible catalog of research data created at Duke Health and in the School of Medicine. By making data more transparent, this catalog will foster scientific discovery, enhance transdisciplinary collaboration, and promote the re-use and linkage of data to speed translation, inform hypotheses generation and decision making. Currently, data exists in many silos at Duke and there is not one map to help 133s inside and outside the institution identify what data is available.

PT Plus is a 6-week program of 90-minute weekly sessions for families with 3-5 year old 86 that introduces literature and nutritional practices through activities that promote family-centered foundational skills in early nutrition, healthy lifestyles, and literacy. PT Plus's balanced and holistic approach to achieving school readiness promotes healthy eating, reading behaviors, and critical thinking through the discussion of engaging books and simple high-yield nutritional practices.

The American Library Association ALA is leading a large response and recovery effort for libraries damaged by Hurricane Maria and Irma in the Caribbean, specifically in the Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands. Many libraries have been damaged beyond repair and need assistance to recover. ALA will work with the local library leaders in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to provide computers and other resources needed to restore access to communities in dire need of information on health and a multitude of other topics as they rebuild their lives.

RML funds will be used to support a Maker EXPO. The focus is on the maker movement within health care. The Expo will be a health sciences networking and showcase event for makers, innovators, and entrepreneurs. There will be a keynote speaker, a panel of experts, and exhibits. It will be free and open to the public. Registration will be required since there is limited space.

The Iowa Family Leadership Training Institute IFLTI is a four-session, in-person training designed to develop the leadership skills of emerging family leaders who are parents or primary caregivers of Iowa 86 and youth with special health care needs CYSHCN. The institute is sponsored by the Division of Child and Community Health, part of the University of Iowa Stead Family Department of Pediatrics. The Division also includes Child Health Specialty Clinics CHSC, Iowa's Maternal and Child Health Title V Program for CYSHCN.

Mississippi has one of the highest rates of low birth weight and premature babies in the U.S. and the University of Mississippi Medical Center's newborn division is actively promoting breastfeeding among new mothers to benefit these babies. The CDC's 'Healthy People 2020' breastfeeding objective is for 81.9% of infants to be breastfed for any length of time, or 'ever breastfed.' The national average for infants being 'ever breastfed' is 81.1%, and Mississippi is currently ranked last at 52%.