Recorded Webinars

Stay up to date professionally without leaving your desk! The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region has brought you its Connecting with the NER distance education series. This ongoing series features hot topics in health sciences librarianship and highlights major updates to National Library of Medicine resources. Webinars have expanded to other events as well. Available recordings of the sessions can be found here.

Upcoming webinars are announced on our e-newsletter and also posted on our blog.

Recordings of Webinars

Community Outreach Program Planning

Date: October 6, 2011, 2- 3 PM
Hosted by the Healthy Communities COI
Guest Speaker: Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, Kurtz-Rossi and Associates

The Healthy Communities - Community of Interest (COI) brings you health and literacy educator Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, M.Ed., presenting oncommunity health program planning and development. She will talk about her recent experience working with community based organizations (CBOs) in Providence RI serving the Latino community and CBOs in rural Maine serving seniors. Her presentation will include a discussion of ideas and strategies for community assessment, forming partnerships, and planning and implementing community health programs. She will also draw on the experience of Healthy Communities COI members and hopes you too will share the creative ideas and strategies that have
worked for you.

Watch the recording at: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p85534064/

The EMR and Librarian Roles

Date: Thursday March 10th, 2011
Time: 1:30 PM-3:30PM EST

This event was co-sponsored by the NN/LM NER and NAHSL.

Guest Speakers: Nancy Peterson, Deputy Director, New England Consortium System Organization (NESCSO); Kate Cheromcha, Health Sciences Librarian, Windham Hospital; Donna Flake, Director South East Area Health Education Center (SEAHEC) and Nadine Ellero, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia.

Please note that there was a brief interruption in the recording during the session causing it be created in two parts.

You can view the recording here.
Part 1: Introduction, Nancy Peterson, Introduction for Kate Cheromcha (continued on second link), EMR and Librarian Roles Part 1
Part 2: Continue with Kate Cheromcha (a few minutes were lost due to an interruption), Donna Flake and Nadine Ellero, EMR and Librarian Roles Part 2

TOXNET: Your Source for Environmental Health and Toxicology Information

Guest Speaker: Shannon Jordan, MPH and Chemist, NLM/SIS
Dates: Feburary 10, 2011
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EST

Shannon Jordan from the Specialized Information Services at the National Library of Medicine presented an outstanding webinar for the NN/LM New England Region highlighting TOXNET technical databases including: ChemIDPlus, HSDB, TOXLINE, CCRIS, DART, GENETOX, IRIS, ITER. If you would like to watch the recording, go to: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p29756453/

Health Information Literacy Webinar

Date: December 11, 2009
Time: 11 AM - 12 PM

The New England Regional Medical Library presents Jean Shipman, Director of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, who will review the Medical Library Association’s Health Information Literacy Research Project that was funded by the National Library of Medicine. She will share how this two-year project has helped to educate health care providers about the key role medical librarians can play with improving their institution’s health literacy efforts in addition to how results of the project have been disseminated. Watch the recording at: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p22408705/.

National Library of Medicine Consumer Health Resource Update

Michelle Eberle
Date: July 30, 2009
Time: 10:30 AM

This teleconference for NN/LM-New England Region network members will highlight what’s new with National Library of Medicine online resources for the public. Come learn the latest improvements to these resources: MedlinePlus, NIHSeniorHealth, ToxMystery, ToxTown, TOXMAP, Dietary Supplements Labels Database, Drug Information Portal, NLM Online Exhibits (Harry Potter, Against the Odds). Stay up-to-date with the latest changes to NLM consumer health resources! Watch the recording at: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p81087656/.

Public Health Online Resources - Virtual Tour of PHPartners.org

Hathy Simpson
Date: February 3, 2009
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM

This session will provide an overview of public health information resources available from the public health web portal, PHPartners.org
Watch the recording at: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p74349065/

Emerging Roles for Medical Librarians...As the Library as Place Evolves

Facilitated by Michelle Eberle
Date: March 27, 2009
Time: 10:30 AM - 12 PM

Changes in technology and electronic access to health information are revolutionizing library services. Come learn about the trends at three of the top medical libraries in New England. Find out how three experienced resource library directors are coping with changes in library as place. Discussion will focus on new roles for medical librarians as the library as place evolves. Guest speakers include: Eric Albright ( Director, Tufts Hirsh Health Sciences Library); Richard Kaplan ( Dean of Learning and Library Resources, Massachusetts College and Pharmacy and Health Sciences Library); and Elaine Martin ( Director of Library Services, Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Director, National Network of Libraries of Medicine / New England Region)
Watch the rercording at: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p26744232/

Participant Requirements

You will need a phone line near a computer to attend our webinars. Check that your computer can connect to Adobe Connect in advance of a session. This will give you time to address any problems. This will determine whether connection speed is sufficient, network access is allowed, flash player is installed, etc. If the diagnostic reveals that Flash needs to be updated or installed, that can be done here. If there are remaining issues, IS depts can check that port 443 and 1935 are open on their firewalls. These are required by Connect. For more information, firewall administrators can see this article by Adobe.