Pacific Northwest Region

The University of Washington Health Sciences Library serves as the regional Network Office for network member organizations throughout the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region (NNLM PNR) including the states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington

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NNLM Resource Picks

NNLM Resource Picks is a collaborative, bimonthly, webcast series featuring the National Library of Medicine resources to increase awareness of these resources as well as encourage their integration by libraries and other organizations to more fully serve their colleagues and communities. Next Pick: ClinicalTrials.gov

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Pacific Northwest Region

New Funding Opportunities Coming Soon!

FYI—late breaking news: Another round of funding opportunities will be announced soon to encourage proposals from public libraries or involving public library partnerships!

Also, PNR hosted a special webinar on July 12 which featured 3 speakers who received NNLM PNR funding. Each shared insights and stories about their funded projects, and tips about proposal writing. View the recording of this webinar to learn more about applying for funding.

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Health Literacy Toolkit from Libraries Transform

October is Health Literacy Month!

NNLM and ALA have partnered through the Libraries Transform public awareness campaign to create a free toolkit for Health Literacy. The campaign is an initiative designed to increase public awareness of the value, impact, and services provided by libraries and library professionals. Sign up for a free account to access this toolkit for use in your libraries to increase health literacy in your communities.

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Upcoming Classes

Interested in training opportunities from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine? Here are just a few of our upcoming classes:

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Repeats every week every Thursday 6 times. Thursday, September 6, 2018, Thursday, September 13, 2018, Thursday, September 20, 2018, Thursday, September 27, 2018, Thursday, October 4, 2018, Thursday, October 11, 2018

Clinical Information, Librarians and the NLM: From Health Data Standards to Better Health

Thursday, September 27, 2018

SEAside Webinar: Why Library Partners are Critical to the All of Us Research Program

Repeats every 2 weeks every Wednesday 3 times. Wednesday, October 3, 2018, Wednesday, October 17, 2018, Wednesday, October 31, 2018

NNLM Wikipedia Fall 2018 Edit-a-thon training

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Join us for PNR Rendezvous!

September 19 at 1:00pm PT

PNR Rendezvous is a monthly webinar series presented by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Northwest Region.

Our next Rendezvous is Sept 19th: "Community Conversations that Build Trust in Biomedical Research"

Ken Gordon, Executive Director, Northwest Association for Biomedical Research
Jennifer Wroblewski, Public Engagement Manager, Northwest Association for Biomedical Research

Watch our last session, "Genetic Testing in the Era of Genomic Sequencing," below. Archived recordings are available on YouTube.