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Browse recordings of past NNLM webinars from Jan 1, 2020 - current. To see curated playlists by topic, audience, or region, visit the NNLM YouTube channel.

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Palmetto Connect: Fostering Digital Inclusion in Rural South Carolina

This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series in November 2024.

Palmetto Care Connections’ Digital Inclusion Program, Palmetto Connect, helps close the digital divide ­for residents in rural and underserved areas of­ South Carolina by increasing internet access, providing digital devices, training people in digital literacy, and connecting individuals to quality-of­-lif­e resources such as telehealth through digital inclusion.

Hear how this program has impacted 17…
Date: November 19, 2024

Creating Maawn Doobiigeng: Developing A New Classification System for a Tribal Library

Existing organizational systems including Dewey Decimal System and Library of Congress Classification are inherently damaging to Indigenous people and are insufficient for accurately describing and providing access to Native topics. From 2019 to 2024, the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Libraries worked with community members to create a new classification system, Maawn Doobiigeng (Gather Together). A member of the workgroup and the Tribal Librarian will share about the process of creating this new system, how it is being implemented, and how it is being used in the libraries, particularly in…
Date: November 15, 2024

Promoting Walking for Health in Rural Communities

This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series in November 2024.

Rural American adults have higher rates of chronic physical activity-related illness and are less active than their urban counterparts, with less than 20% meeting U.S. physical activity guidelines of 150-300 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week. Walking is the most common form of physical activity and people who walk are more likely to meet physical activity guidelines. However, rural…
Date: November 14, 2024

When Your Community Is Your Hospital

This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series in November 2024.

In 2022, the North State Partnership to Expand Health Information Access formed in the rural northern region of California, after recognizing the lack of access to healthcare, the need for access to health information, and the importance of engagement with local, on-the-ground community health workers. The partnership included collaborators from academic institutions and community-based organizations. After assessing the regional capacity for delivering health information education,…
Date: November 13, 2024

A Guide to Getting Started in Research and Publishing

This webinar is designed to give new professionals a look at how to approach publishing and research as new librarians, faculty, and/or professionals. Starting with idea formation and running through finding collaborators, submitting to the IRB, submitting the first manuscript, rewrites and more. Dr. Blake will break down the writing, research and publication processes into steps designed to help new or accomplished professionals to more easily move through each area.

Speaker Information

Lindsay Blake, EdD, MLIS, AHIP is the Clinical Services Coordinator and…
Date: November 13, 2024

R4 Connections. Understanding and Using Generative AI: For Health Science Librarians

Please note: This webinar is restricted to individuals in Region 4 (AZ, ID, CO, MT, NM, ND, SD, UT, WY). This webinar is a preview of an upcoming six-week online course on generative AI for health science librarians. Each module of the course will be introduced, with samples from the video lectures. 

Topics include:

  • Understanding the technology behind generative AI
  • Prompting for large language models
  • Multimodal features for educational use…
    Date: November 12, 2024

Creating Data Management Plans with the DMPTool

This webinar will guide attendees through data management plan basics, creating a DMPTool profile, and exploring available templates and planning resources. 

The DMPTool is a free tool that walks users through creating comprehensive data management plans. The DMPTool is a great resource for building data management plans for grant applications, especially considering that starting in January 2023 the NIH will require funded researchers to submit a plan outlining how scientific data from their research will be managed and shared.


Date: November 11, 2024

Synergizing Libraries with NCBI/NIH Resources (November 8, 2024)

NLM, NCBI and NNLM colleagues share the successes and challenges in meeting the evolving needs of biomedical researchers and those who support them through the lens of NLM's many years of specialized NCBI training programs. 

Friday, November 8, 2-3pm ET | 1-2pm CT | 12-1pm MT | 11am-12pm PT

Rana Morris, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine

Rana Morris is an National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Customer Experience team member and the Outreach Program Lead at the National Library of Medicine.…
Date: November 8, 2024

Open Tools for Data De-identification

Data de-identification often poses a challenge to researchers. With more funders supporting or requiring data sharing, data de-identification is a crucial step in the data management lifecycle. Explore openly available tools and technologies to help with data de-identification, including how machine learning and natural language processing apply to data de-identification.

Learn about the NLM Scrubber and other open NLP tools that can be used for clinical text de-identification. This session includes a demonstration of how to run NLM Scrubber and shows the types of data it can find…
Date: November 7, 2024

Facilitating Rural Access to Quality Health Information through Little Free Libraries

This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series in November 2024.

This webinar addresses a NNLM grant-funded community partnership between a public library and a university health science library to add health education components to 30 new public library-sponsored Little Free Libraries built on rural county properties. The project goals were to improve rural residents’ health literacy skills, increase access to quality health information for diverse populations, and raise awareness of NIH’s All of Us Research Program. 

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Date: November 7, 2024

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