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Posted by benniefinch on May 22nd, 2026
Posted in: Blog, Data, Funded Project
Tags: Citizen Science, Funded Projects, public libraries
On June 2, 2026, we will be hosting three public libraries who received Citizen Science Kits from NNLM Region 7 to discuss how their libraries have supported science education and programming with a focus on homeschoolers. Between October 1, 2024 – April 1, 2025, Region 7 provided 45 citizen science kits to NNLM members in our region. This award was designed to support programmatic outreach in under-resourced communities with themed kits that address Exploring Biodiversity, Observing Pollinators, or Monitoring Air Quality.
How Liberty Library is using the Monitoring Air Quality Kit
Citizen Science projects are an innovative way to connect individuals and communities to projects that could benefit from robust data collection. Through community science, people can be engaged in programs that can directly improve their community’s health outcomes. Citizen science efforts allow communities to engage with science as well as contribute to a broad project that looks at environmental health factors in their community.
The purpose of the award was to support citizen science initiatives that raise awareness of the environmental determinants of health and participatory science in their community. Specifically, the Citizen Science Award sought to address the following aim from the NNLM Region 7 cooperative agreement to Advance health equity through national and regional partnerships and initiatives to ensure a variety of members and the public will have equal access to biomedical, health, and public health information and data.
Our panelists are Cindy Jewett from James A. Tuttle Library in Antrim, New Hampshire, Barbara Rehmeyer from Liberty Library in Liberty, Maine, and Nicole Gauvreau from Maxfield Public Library in Loudon, New Hampshire. Each of these libraries discussed their work with homeschooling families in their applications so Region 7 invited them to give a panel presentation about how they are using the kits to support science education and programming with a focus on homeschoolers.
Exploring Biodiversity Kit used to develop this project for homeschool science fair at Maxfield Public Library
Join us for real world examples of creative programming, the nuts and bolts of incorporating citizen science kits into the collection, and ideas for creating your own kits. Region 7 Presents: Citizen Science at the Library for Homeschool Students | NNLM
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