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Funding Awarded to the University of Iowa’s Gathering Welcome Project

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The GMR office is excited to announce funding for the Gathering Welcome: Creating a Curriculum to Teach Health Literacy to Immigrant and Refugee Women via our Health Information Outreach award. Project: Description:  The result of this project will be a cohesive, vetted curriculum designed to improve the health literacy and health information access and outcomes… Read More »

Posted in: Funding

Jul

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Midwest Data Librarian Symposium Call for Proposals

Posted by on July 15th, 2019 0 comments Tags: , ,

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium (MDLS) invites session proposals for its 5th symposium taking place at University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL) on September 30 – October 1, 2019. MDLS is a low-cost, 2-day, hands-on, unconference style event for Midwesterners who support research data management and research data services (RDS) at their institutions. The greater… Read More »

Posted in: Data Science

Jul

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Twinsburg Public Library Receives NNLM Public Library Partnership Award

Posted by on July 14th, 2019 0 comments

Twinsburg Public Library is located in northeast Ohio, between Akron and Cleveland. It’s famous for its annual Twins Days Festival held in August. Because of its commitment for providing information and education to the community, the Library is using its award to host three speaker programs in August to raise awareness of health issues impacting… Read More »

Posted in: All of Us, Blog, Consumer Health, Funding, News from the Region, Outreach, Public Libraries, Success Stories

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Dementia Outreach, an NNLM All of Us Public Library Partnership Award

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The Greater Midwest Region is pleased to offer one of four All of Us Public Library Partnership Program Awards to Jim DiDonato, Director of Round Lake Area Public Library and Christine Damon, Gerontology/Adult Educator. They will expand upon Tales and Travels, a program that NNLM funded in 2015-2016 and received a 2017 Library of Congress… Read More »

Posted in: All of Us, Blog, Consumer Health, From the GMR, Funding, News from the Region, Outreach, Public Libraries, Success Stories

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NNLM Public Library Partnership Award Supports Health Information Toolkits

Posted by on July 14th, 2019 0 comments

Stephanie Swanberg, Assistant Professor and Information Literacy and eLearning Librarian for the Oakland University William Beaumont (OUWB) School of Medicine received one of four NNLM Public Library Partnership awards. With her award, the OUWB Medical Library was able to take on a medical student as an intern for the first time. She said, “This is… Read More »

Posted in: All of Us, Blog, Consumer Health, From the GMR, Funding, News from the Region, Outreach, Public Libraries, Success Stories

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Grant Number 1UG4LM012346 with The University of Iowa.

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