Past Funded Projects

This project will increase access to health information by improving the health literacy attributes of The University of Tennessee Medical Center UTMC. Library faculty will lead an assessment of health literacy sensitive characteristics of the UTMC and will provide a basis for promoting changes in our healthcare system based on evidence. Librarians will partner with UTMC stakeholders and University of Tennessee graduate students to implement assessment tools called the Health Literacy Environment of Hospitals and Health Centers HLEHH.

The Pacific College of Oriental College PCOM proposes a collaborative health information outreach project to increase awareness and access of NLM/NIH online resources by providing training workshops for consumers and health professionals in San Diego. The goal is to extend access to health care information through training workshops for all residents, with emphasis on reaching multicultural, diverse and minority populations at their communities, and to improve the library's technologies needed to conduct the project.

This a pilot project to develop curriculum to teach current and future healthcare professionals how to address patient needs throughout the state of Georgia with health literacy in mind. The goal is to improve a clinician's ability to identify and communicate effectively with patients at the appropriate level of health literacy.

Applicant will attend the Institute in Evidence-Based Practice, an intensive 3-day introductory course that teaches medical librarians the skills they need to support evidence-based practice at their institutions. The knowledge I gain through this course will improve her ability to educate students and assist faculty at the new medical school opening at her institution in the fall of 2017.

This project will bring the Association of College & Research Libraries' workshop 'Building your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work' to Spokane, Washington on April 10, 2017. This will train regional academic and hospital librarians serving expanding medical programs and growing research needs involving 95 populations. This award will fund workshop fees, travel and lodging expenses for two invited speakers, host facility fees and materials.

The Plain Language for Health PL4H workshop is designed to increase consumer access to health information and services by training health information specialists, 12s, librarians and others to use plain language writing and design principles in health information materials and websites. The first PL4H workshop, offered March 18 - 19, 2016 by Tufts University School of Medicine, trained 40 participants and attracted professionals from a wide range of community-based organizations serving 88 with low health literacy and limited English proficiency.

The aims of this project are to equip the health sciences librarians at the University of North Dakota with technology that will improve their ability to 1 participate in online training opportunities that require telephone participation and 2 to participate in online videoconferencing from their workstations in open-office floorplans.

In this two part project, faculty from the Georgia State University GSU Library and the School of Public Health will repurpose elements from the CDC's David J. Sencer Museum's exhibition 'Health Is a Human Right: Race and Place in America'. The exhibit has been secured as a permanent gift from the CDC museum to GSU and is in storage in a large classroom at the School of Public Health.

The Texas Tech University Health Science Center at El Paso Libraries will bring 3D printing and knowledge of how to use the NIH 3D Print Exchange to the health workers, medical students, Hispanics, and doctors in Western Texas.

The overall purpose of the Community Health Information Resource for 89 CHIRS is to strengthen and enhance Washoe County's provision of resources to its community by building a comprehensive, easy to navigate web-enabled compendium that consolidates all the scattered information that supports the needs of the aging population. CHIRS will deliver a program of instruction, both in-class and online, to demonstrate and promote the benefits of the website and illustrate the variety of beneficial online health information resources.

PIA will provide hands on PowerPoint computer training designed to improve the 125s' access to web based health information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. We will do this by offering training in navigating medlineplus.gov and other online medical websites.

Create awareness of NLM electronic resources to our target populations to inform and instruct them on the variety of resources available to meet their healthcare information needs. Replace existing aging server to increase capacity and provide more reliable access to library resources while both on and off campus, including at the point-of-care.

The Health In The Square project will provide learning opportunities to the Mason Square community on nutrition, gardening, and health literacy. Through workshops and technology, National Library of Medicine's health resources help will build a foundation of health literacy for the community and help alleviate food insecurity.

PIA will provide hands on PowerPoint computer training workshops designed to improve the accessibility to web based health information and health resources using medlineplus.gov. Our workshops will increase attendees' skills in using computers to navigate many National Library of Medicine electronic medical libraries. We will teach all participants find and understand health topics and many other health resources to include the meaning and importance of health literacy. The PIA training will target the public with a focus on African Americans and other underserved populations.

Exhibit at the 117th Annual Convention of the Oklahoma Osteopathic Association

The Mount Olivet Health Ministry of Mt Olivet Gospel Church Inc. will provide a two day event to increase health awareness and promotion to community members. The two day event will include speakers on hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, Effective communication, and Lifestyle modifications Adequate nutrition and Exercise with 126s. Attendees will also have opportunities to gain CPR/AED training on March 4th to March 5th 2017 and subsequent dates.

The Cushing Center, which opened in 2010, brought renewed attention to the materials within Harvey Cushing's collections, which include, beyond the Registry, over 200 boxes of archival material, made available through an online finding aid http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0160. The brains and tumors are being used in research again, including genetic sequencing of 20 specimens related to acromegaly, gigantism, and Cushing's disease.

Systematic Reviews: Opportunities for Librarians provides information professionals with foundational knowledge about systematic reviews and an opportunity to engage in high-level discussions about involvement in such projects. The course runs on a flipped classroom model where didactic material is presented in an asynchronous online format over a period of two weeks and is followed closely by an intensive two day in-person workshop.

This project will utilize the requested interactive smart board to introduce patients and/or family members to MedlinePlus resources. This will be done by integrating the resources into existing curricula. Current educational programs do not include MedlinePlus resources. Focusing on dental education, NLM's MedlinePlus resources will be chosen according to age and health issue. The 86's dental health program will incorporate MedlinePlus's games and videos.

The use of institutional repositories is becoming more common in health care universities. The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine PCOM Library has an institutional repository IR, the DigitalCommons@PCOM. The PCOM Library must ensure that 133s, faculty, and students want to use open access resources and submit articles, posters, and other materials to the DigitalCommons@PCOM by educating them about publication policies, author rights, and open access.

The National Center for Farmworker Health proposes to develop a one stop health education website and training guide designed to increase the awareness and utilization of Spanish language Medline Plus, NCFH health education tools, and other patient education health resources by targeted staff at Community/Migrant Health Centers. These health centers play a critical role in providing primary healthcare services to the migrant and seasonal agricultural worker population, one of the most disenfranchised and vulnerable populations in the United States.

Restored Generation, Inc. will provide classes to a targeted youth minority primareily African-American population in 95 and low-income communities to train them on how to access and use quality health information to make better health decisions for healthier lifestyles.

In cooperation with the Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home in Augusta, Georgia, the 'Assessing the Health Information Seeking Behaviors and Needs of Nurses in Skilled Nursing Facilities' project will assess the information seeking practices as well as information and educational needs of nurses working in the long-term care environment with frail elderly patients. Assessments will be performed utilizing both questionnaires and observations of the nurses on the floor in the care facility across all three shifts.

This project proposes the use of funds to cover the costs associated with hiring a trained website designer to enhance the design and navigation of a publically available website that provides access to free and open access resources for unaffiliated public health and primary care providers. The 'Common Wealth of Public Health and Primary Care Information' website has been actively maintained by VCU Libraries since 2010. Minimal website design changes have occurred to the website since a 2011 platform migration to LibGuides 2.0.

University of North Dakota UND Health Sciences Library librarians will develop or select appropriate information needs assessment tools and methods to assess the information needs of unaffiliated North Dakota 95 health professionals. After Institutional Review Board approval is received, 95 health professionals will be invited to share their perspectives regarding their information needs. The project team will assess the data received and complete a final report summarizing the data analysis process and findings.

The purpose of this project is to increase access, knowledge, skills, and use of library resources that can help support the health of immigrant Micronesian families. The Hawaiian State Public Library System HSPLS will work with the Kapiolani Pediatric Clinic to create a simple new library card program that starts at the clinic, and also includes easy to understand resources about the services and programs that are available.

It is often said that if you want to be healthy, choose your parents wisely. We know that persons with disabilities, or as we prefer, persons who are differently abled, come in all forms and sizes, with many different conditions. We also know that at some point in our lives, we will be differently abled as well. Since we can't choose our parents, we must rely on the choices that are available to us.

The primary goal of this project Goal 1 is to expand interlibrary loan outreach to physician members of the Tulsa County Medical Society TCMS. A secondary goal of this project Goal 2 is to complete a digitization project begun several years ago to digitize the Tulsa County Medical Society Bulletin see the existing digitized volumes of the journal at the library's ContentDM instance here: http://cdm16355.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15229qs.

Provision of accurate online resources is a valuable tool in designing programs aimed at assisting 95 consumers in making informed decisions about their health and to communicate effectively with health professionals. Through Project Connections, consumers will receive instant access to online health information and resources from the National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus, including medical journals,clinical guidelines, and databases encompassing the world's knowledge about conditions and diseases, as well as patient-oriented materials and online interactive communities.

The Community Health Education Center CHEC is a library for patients and their family members located in a large academic medical center. CHEC provides patients and their family members with reliable health information written at a level they can understand. In addition to providing patients with health information, The CHEC librarian plans to provide a day-long consumer health information symposium aimed at local public librarians. Public librarians often serve patrons requesting health information. The symposium will provide an overview of CHEC resources.