Congratulations to Our 2021-22 Awardees!

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Congratulations to our 2021-22 awardees! NNLM Region 4 had the pleasure of giving four different types of competitive awards to libraries, universities, and other organizations in an effort to improve access to health information, increase engagement with research and data, expand professional knowledge, and promote awareness and use of NLM resources in local communities. Continue reading to learn more about their exciting projects.

 

Program Improvement Award Recipients

The Logan Health Medical Center was funded to support the Mobile Montana Healthcare Training Laptop Lab Project. Their goal is to provide increased opportunities for successful outreach programs throughout the service area through a portable hands-on computer lab. The lab provides training sessions on various NLM resources to foster increased knowledge, confident selection, and use of healthcare resources, supporting individuals’ ability to make informed decisions about their health and healthcare professionals’ access to biomedical resources to elicit performance improvement in their respective healthcare facilities.

The Dawn Clinic was awarded funds to develop a user-friendly website for DAWN patients with features to promote better healthcare and health information access.

 

Engagement and Outreach Award Recipients

The Moby Bookmobile was funded to purchase books and other materials, such as CD-audio, Braille, fiction, and non-fiction titles, supplies, and cover operational costs to distribute literature and print resources to the tribal populations of the Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming.

The Dawn Clinic was awarded funds to utilize the expertise of a Community Engagement Professional. This professional will engage clinic community members in mini-interviews, compile results of interviews, and provide reports related to engaging with clinic community members to advise the redesign of the DAWN Clinic website.

The University of Arizona Health Sciences Library was funded to support the digital component of the exhibit entitled Pop Up Botanica: Enduring Indigenous Medicine and accompanying educational lectures. The project aims to disseminate culturally accurate and relevant information about Mesoamerican/Mexican traditional medicine and healing practices used in some communities in the U.S. Mexico border region to raise awareness of the NLM resources and products that support the exhibit and lecture presentation topics.

 

 NNLM Region 4 Community Engagement Ambassador Award Recipients

Montana State University was awarded to support their ambassador project, Building Bridges with Libraries Serving Native and Rural Communities in Montana, were funded to 1) advise Region 4 on engaging communities, particularly Native and rural communities, 2) connect with librarians, health boards, and wellness staff, and 3) plan a health information workshop to convene NNLM staff and partners.

The Southwest Community Engagement Ambassador Project with the University of New Mexico (UNM) was funded to understand and share culturally relevant, effective practices in community engagement with underserved populations. Additionally, UNM will collaborate with NNLM Region 4 and key stakeholders to develop a network of community engagement partners working with New Mexico’s priority populations. These populations include many medically underserved communities, a large rural population, and the majority of New Mexicans being at risk for health disparities.

 

Professional Development Award Recipients

Jonathan Pringle, Scholarly Communications and Digital Librarian at the Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center, University of New Mexico: Received funds to apply to the Institute of Certified Records Management (ORCM) and cover other costs, including lCRM workshops, exam prep books, and the CRM exam fee to allow the applicant to become a Certified Records Manager.

Christi Piper, Reference Informationist at Strauss Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus: Received funds to cover the applicant’s registration fee to attend the Bibliometrics and Scientometrics for Research Evaluation course to better understand research metrics and the implications between using particular metrics to better support researchers and faculty on her campus.

Kathryn Vela, Medical Librarian at St. Luke’s Health System/Medical Library: Covered registration costs to attend the 2022 Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference to collect evidence-based ideas for improving and maintaining resource collection to increase access to health information for St. Luke’s providers.

Anaconda Jr. Sr. High School: Covered registration and travel costs for eight students and their librarian and teacher advisors to attend the State Leadership Conference for the Health Occupations Students Association.

Deborah Rhue, Clinical Services Librarian at the Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center, University of New Mexico: Deborah received funding to attend an MLA-sponsored webinar entitled “Critical Appraisal of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses” to expand her knowledge about the critical appraisal of medical literature.

Kathleen Maluski, Student Success and Engagement Librarian at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library: Kathleen received funding to attend the Systematic Review Essentials course to become informed on any changes to the processes and technologies and to hear more about systematic approaches to building programs for supporting systematic reviews and get hands-on experience with the process.

 

Information about funding opportunities in 2022-23 will be announced soon. If you have any questions or have ideas and current programs you would like to have funded, let us know at reg4_funding@lists.utah.edu.