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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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NNLM Region 3 Grant-funded project overview: Powering Clinics & Communities with PubMed: Building Library Awareness at a Safety-Net Hospital System

This webinar is designed to provide a general overview of the NNLM grant submission process, with a focus on assessing needs within a library, organization, or community, identifying potential funding sources, crafting a strong grant proposal, and implementing the project. Each of these steps will be examined by going through the development process for the NNLM grant-funded project Powering Clinics & Communities with PubMed: Building Library Awareness at a Safety-Net Hospital System. This session will also highlight practical tips for setting attainable project goals and…
Date: December 4, 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

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

Piecing Together Systematic Reviews. Phase 4: Paper

This session will cover the fourth phase of the PIECCESS review cycle, the Paper phase, during which the report is written. This will cover updating searches, selecting the journal, writing search reports, and other potential support.

Speaker Information

Margaret Foster, MS, MPH, is the Evidence Synthesis and Scholarly Communication Librarian and the Head of the Center for Systematic Reviews and Research Syntheses at the Medical Sciences Library, Texas A&M University. She is the co-author of the first book written on systematic reviews for librarians…
Date: September 25, 2024

How to Apply for NNLM Funding

Designed for beginning grant proposal writers interested in NNLM funding, this class presents a general overview of grant and funding processes, as well as the level of detail required for a successful proposal.

Each component of the NNLM grant writing process will be addressed, including:

  • Documenting the need
  • Identifying the target population
  • Writing measurable objectives
  • Developing a work plan
  • An evaluation plan
  • A dissemination plan.


Date: September 19, 2024

Piecing Together Systematic Reviews. Phase 1: Proposal

This session will cover the first phase of the PIECCESS review cycle, the Proposal phase of conducting a systematic review.  The five-part series will introduce the review cycle framework, PIECCESS, as described in the book by Foster and Jewell (2022) Piecing Together Systematic Reviews and Other Evidence Syntheses. Throughout the phases, the potential roles for librarians, health care professionals and others interested in the process of systematic review will be discussed as well as categories of client, such as those who read…
Date: June 26, 2024

Introduction to the Piecing Together Systematic Reviews Series

This special edition of Health Bytes with Region 3 will serve as an introduction to the 5-part Piecing Together Systematic Reviews Series. 

The remaining sessions in the series (dates listed below) will cover the review cycle framework, PIECCESS, as described in the book by Foster and Jewell (2022) Piecing Together Systematic Reviews and Other Evidence Syntheses. Throughout the phases, the potential roles for librarians, health care professionals and others interested in the process of systematic review will be discussed as well as categories of client…
Date: June 5, 2024

The NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy for non-data librarians

The NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy went into effect early last year. That means that the policy that so many medical data librarians have been talking about is finally in place and affecting researchers. Any organization that receives research grant funds from the National Institutes of Health will need to add a new “Data Management and Sharing Plan” to grant proposals, and then follow that plan. Libraries are being mentioned by many organizations as the place to find expertise and support for this new data policy.

But can librarians that don’t usually do data still…
Date: May 29, 2024

Social and Economic Determinants and Environmental Health

Our health is shaped by the world around us, by our income, identities, education, and occupations, but also by the air we breathe, water we drink, food we eat. These social circumstances also interact to shape one another. This presentation will discuss the intersecting and ineluctable role of a range of social, economic, and environmental factors in shaping the health of populations.

This presentation addresses increasing health equity through information and the NNLM initiative of environmental determinants of health by considering the various social, economic, and…
Date: March 20, 2024

Blue Marble Librarians: Libraries Helping Their Communities Prepare for Extreme Weather and Foster Socially and Ecologically Conscious Culture

Join us for a talk with four leading members of the Blue Marble Librarians, a Massachusetts based group of librarians focused on sustainability, environmental education, and extreme weather preparedness. Learn about the history of the group, their involvement with the Boston-based nonprofit, Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW), CREW Climate Hubs, the annual Climate Prep Week, and how to get involved with these environmental initiatives. They will also cover the impacts that climate change has on mental health. Participants will come away with concrete examples of what they…
Date: March 12, 2024

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