Topics Guides
| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| An Introduction to Health Literacy | Health literacy involves the information and services that people need to make well-informed health decisions. Learn more about the aspects of health literacy, why it's important, how it can be addressed, and how NNLM supports health literacy. |
| Black Maternal Health | The resources on this page are meant to provide actionable information as a takeaway related to Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17). |
| CHIS Classes to Teach in Your Community | The Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) guide gives anyone access to specific NNLM CHIS class materials. These classes can easily be reused within libraries and other communities to support connections to accurate health information and enable people to make informed decisions about their health. The guide includes slides and handouts for five CHIS classes and a detailed page to help individuals use these materials. |
| Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing | Through the Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing initiative, NNLM engages communities in addressing societal needs and accelerating biomedical science, technology, and innovation. |
| Clinical Conversations Training Program | Clinical Conversations allows clinical trainers or managers to offer brief trainings embedded into regular staff meetings or trainings that they already facilitate, as a way to offer continuing education that does not take time out of already busy schedules. The primary goal of Clinical Conversations is to increase knowledge and awareness of health literacy and associated skills and tools. The program includes 7 subjects, each containing 3-12 modules with PowerPoint slides, printable handouts, e-mail follow ups, facilitator guides, and evaluation materials. |
| Consumer Health Information Specialization | Learn about the Consumer Health Information Specialization, a program that recognizes your skills in finding and communicating data to consumers. |
| Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science | Through citizen science and crowdsourcing, NNLM can engage communities in addressing societal needs and accelerating biomedical science, technology, and innovation. |
| Data Competencies | This section of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative provides resources to explore recommended competencies, knowledge, skills, and dispositions for data librarians. Professional organizations and networks, as well as resources and strategies to stay current are provided. |
| Data Glossary | The NNLM Data Glossary includes definitions, relevant literature, and web resources related to data terminology. |
| Data Services | A selection of articles and teaching resources for librarians who are interested in offering data services at their institution. There are many other resources widely available online, and even those not pertaining to medical librarianship are adaptable to many data service contexts. |
| Data Services Specialization | Learn about the Data Services Specialization, a program that recognizes your skills in providing data services to researchers, clinicians, students, librarians, and others who work with data. |
| Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | This guide provides a starting point for information and practices to encourage individual and organizational transformation around diversity, equity, inclusion and the practice of cultural humility. The resources provided will challenge libraries to deconstruct systemic barriers impeding an equitable society. |
| Emergency and Disaster Resources | This guide serves as an online collection of resources and tools that are relevant to disaster and emergency management. If you would like to learn more about emergency preparedness resources, or explore training opportunities that are available through NNLM, find and contact your region for more information! |
| Environmental Health and Justice | This guide provides an overview of environmental health and justice tools and resources for the beginner. |
| Health Misinformation Resources | A collection of resources to address health misinformation. |
| HIV/AIDS Resources | The following list of resources is curated to highlight trusted resources that focus on different areas of HIV prevention and treatment, clinical trials, surveys and statistics, and HIV and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) navigation and other heath-related information. |
| Minwanjige Mino-bimaadizi (Eat Well, Live Well) | Minwanjige Mino-bimaadize (Eat Well, Live Well) is a series of four activity books that help fill a critical gap in early childhood learning resources for Native American children. The project focuses on raising awareness of food-associated factors that contribute to physical and emotional health. |
| Mpox Resource Guide | Online collection of reliable resources and tools on the 2022 Mpox Outbreak. The guide includes resources for healthcare and public health professionals, patients and the public, and toolkits and data sources. |
| NCDS Data Internship | Data Librarian Internship offered by the National Center for Data Services |
| NLM Product Guides | Short guides for NLM Products available for download in PDF format. Each guide includes a brief description, popular uses, key points, potential predicaments, teaching examples, real-life examples, and links to more resources. The product guides are primarily for people in instruction or training roles such as librarians, faculty leads, or mentor researchers. The guides provide instructors with examples and ideas for teaching people about NLM products. |
| NNLM Data Pathways | Use this tool to explore NLM & NNLM courses, trainings, and webinars that align with your path to learning data librarianship. |
| NNLM Toolkit for the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy | A selection of guides, toolkits, and other resources for librarians working on addressing the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy. |
| Public Health Digital Library | The Public Health Digital Library (PHDL) provides state and local public health departments access to library resources, including e-journals, e-books, and databases. Resources support evidence-based practice and research in public health. |
| Public Health Resources | Evidence-based research and reliable health information are essential to Public Health response and prevention efforts. The National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the NIH, provides free, online resources and training for evidence-based research and combatting misinformation. |
| RD3 Scope Statement and Selection Criteria | The Resources for Data Driven Discovery (RD3) Portal fosters learning and collaboration in data science and data management. The portal will primarily serve librarians and library administrators working in institutions that are generating, sharing, storing, and/or using data for basic scientific, clinical, or translational research and teaching in the health, biological, and physical sciences. As such, the portal will bring together resources on education, outreach and collaboration, best-practices, and current events for data-driven research. The portal will provide librarians with the tools, knowledge, and skills to effectively participate in networked science and teach data topics to Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) stakeholders. |
| Reading Club | Featured health topics and book titles selected for the NNLM Reading Club. |
| Resources for Public Libraries | The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides free, research-based, health resources to public libraries and other community organizations that serve public health needs. |
| Resources Supporting DEIA | This guide includes links to just a few of the many resources readily available to assist you and your organization as you take steps toward diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. |
| Scholarly Communications Resources | Central to academic work, scholarly communications resources can support teaching, learning, research, and scholarly endeavors. Each tab in this guide contains a list of resources, the focus of the resource, and audiences that might benefit from the information. |
| Substance Use Disorders | The Network of National Library of Medicine's Substance Use Disorder Initiative's aim is to raise the awareness of National Library of Medicine's Substance Use Disorders resources and the resources of partner organizations through partnerships with SUD related organizations. |
| Welcome to the Generative AI Short Course | Open Educational Resource of the NNLM Short Course - Navigating New Norms: Harnessing Generative AI for Library Services and Solutions |
| Wikipedia Edit-a-thon | Wikipedia’s health topics pages are visited a staggering 7 billion times a year, making it possibly the world’s most popular health information resource. The objective of #CiteNLM is to improve the credibility and content of medical and health-related articles on Wikipedia by adding citations and information from National Library of Medicine (NLM) sources. |