We do more than teach about grants and funding at the Library. We also secure them for our own projects. The UT Southwestern Medical Center Library has recently secured two awards from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region (NN/LM SCR) for special projects.
The first is a $25,000 Historical Preservation and Digitization Award. This money will be used to purchase equipment to complete a project entitled “Dallas Medical History: 1890-1975”. The project involves scanning 500 photos from our collection that will be made available online, plus creating a special web exhibit of the 50 most important photos.
The second is a $6,500 Express Outreach Grant to purchase equipment to assist with consumer health community outreach. Outreach librarians and Library staff will demonstrate resources and provide information assistance at the Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP) for minority high school students and their families from the Dallas Independent School District.
These projects have 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 Contract No. N01-LM-6-3505 with the Houston Academy of Medicine – Texas Medical Center Library.