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Looking for some consumer health information education in the New Year?

Registration for a free, asynchronous online learning course via Moodle (what does that mean?) of Beyond an Apple a Day: Providing Consumer Health Information at Your Library is now open at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/353CMMQ. Class will begin on Monday, January 4, 2010 and end on Sunday, February 7. Once the enrollment limit has been reached information will be available at the registration website on how to be placed a waitlist for this or a future offering of the course.

Beyond an Apple a Day will be offered for 4 units of continuing education credit and is a Category A course option for the Medical Library Association’s (MLA) Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) program. We look forward to having you join us!

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Are you finding the newly redesigned PubMed a tough nut to crack?

Linda Milgrom, Outreach Coordinator here at the Pacific Northwest Region, is here to help with a live demonstration and question & answer session during a special feature on the RML Rendezvous.

Join us on Wednesday, November 4 2009 at 1 pm Pacific time (2 pm Mountain, noon Alaska) at http://webmeeting.nih.gov/rendezvous.html Please login as a guest after entering your name in the box. If you need more information about how to connect on the RML Rendezvous, click here. We look forward to having you join us!

October is an important month! Medical Librarians Month is during October, and National Physician Assistant Week is October 6-12. Librarians and Physician Assistants (PAs) are natural partners to address patient education and health information literacy. (more…)

The Pacific Northwest Regional Medical Library is now accepting registrants for the online version of “Geeks Bearing Gifts: Unwrapping New Technology Trends.” We are offering this course free of charge to NN/LM Network members and public health educators in our communities. The course will be taught in three segments: Web 2.0 Basics, Social Networking, and Managing Information Overload. Register for one, two, or all three segments depending on your schedule and interests.

UPDATE 9/16/09: This class is now full. Use the registration link above to be placed on a waiting list or notified the next time the class is offered.

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Should I send my survey out in paper or in email? How many people do I need to interview for the data to be valid? What kind of questions do I ask to get at what people think about our service?

If these and other questions have crossed your mind from time to time you might want to take the class Asking the Right Questions: Data Collection for Health Information Outreach being taught by Susan Barnes, Assistant Director of the Outreach Evaluation Resource Center and Maryanne Blake, NN/LM PNR Outreach/Evaluation Coordinator. This three-session free online class will be taught on September 9th, 16th and 23rd from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Pacific time). All you need to participate is a telephone and a computer.

In this workshop, participants will learn to apply good principles of data collection to assure that data – both qualitative and quantitative – will be useful in making … decisions. The emphasis will be on efficient methods that can keep data collection at a manageable level. Topics will include designing and administering questionnaires and developing guides for conducting interviews.
Go to: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/training/data_collection.html for a complete description and the learning objectives for the class. Registration information is at the bottom of the web page or you can go directly to www.surveymonkey.com to register. The class is limited to twenty (20) participants, so please register as soon as possible.

The class has been approved for 4 MLA contact hours.

For more information send an email to nnlm at u.washington.edu or post a comment. We look forward to having you in class!

If you plan to be in or around Portland, Oregon on Thursday, September 10, please join us for training and discussion designed to sharpen your skill with health information. The Portland Area Library Association for Continuing Education (PALACE, formerly the PORTALS Continuing Education Committee) will sponsor two half-day workshops at Portland Community College, Cascade Campus.

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