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May

16

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Funding Awarded for Digital Health Literacy Workshops

Posted by on May 16th, 2018 0 comments Tags:

The GMR office is excited to announce that Wisconsin Health Literacy (WHL) has been granted a Health Information Outreach Award for its project, Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust. Background: A recent WHL survey of literacy tutors found that a significant number of their adult students wish they could do better in finding online… Read More »

Posted in: Funding, Success Stories

May

09

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Funding Awarded to Charlevoix Public Library for “Improving Health Awareness Through Access to Quality Health Information”

Posted by on May 9th, 2018 0 comments

I am excited to announce funding for this project led by Susan Kroll! Project Description: This project will load 20 iPads with NLM consumer health information for adults and children. This project is a partnership between the Charlevoix Public Library and the Munson Charlevoix Hospital Education Department. The iPads will be placed in the Library, the… Read More »

Posted in: Funding, Public Libraries

May

08

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Congratulations to Rachael Lebo, Professional Development Awardee!

Posted by on May 8th, 2018 0 comments

Congratulations are in order!  Rachael Lebo has been funded through the GMR office to attend the 2018 Medical Library Association meeting later this month in Atlanta.  As a first time attendee she is looking forward to taking advantage of some evidence based medicine instruction.  This knowledge will support the library’s participation in the objective structured… Read More »

Posted in: Blog

May

03

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Congratulations to Margaret Hoogland, Professional Development Awardee!

Posted by on May 3rd, 2018 0 comments

Let’s hear it for Margaret Hoogland!  As another recipient of the GMR’s professional development award, she plans on attending the Medical Library Association Research Training Institute in Chicago this summer.  She hopes to utilize the mentoring and instruction offered there to complete her research project on the use and access of point of care tools… Read More »

Posted in: Funding

Apr

30

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Reflections on Big Data in Healthcare: Exploring Emerging Roles

Posted by on April 30th, 2018 0 comments Tags: , ,

In the NNLM Big Data in Healthcare: Exploring Emerging Roles course, we asked participants, as they progressed through the course to consider the following questions: Do you think health sciences librarians should get involved with big data in healthcare? Where should librarians get involved, if you think they should? If you think they should not,… Read More »

Posted in: Data Science

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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