New Classes
New Classes
Check out the new classes from the Network of the National Library of Medicine. Register or learn more by clicking on the event title.
Event Title: R4 Connections: The Power of Mental Health First Aid
Date(s): January 9, 2025
Summary: This one-hour session will explore the benefits and applications of Mental Health First Aid training.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Date(s): January 13, 2025 - April 18, 2025
Summary: This 15-week, 30 credit-hour, self-paced online class reviews basic biology concepts and takes a deep dive into NCBI Molecular Biology Databases.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Event Title: NNLM Region 3 Grants Q&A
Date(s): January 13, 2025
Summary: Get your questions about applying for grants answered during this one-hour Q&A session! NNLM Region 3 (R3) awards programmatic funding ranging from $8,000 to $25,000 every year. R3 staff will answer frequently asked questions about developing an application, offer tips for strengthening proposals, and address common pitfalls that can easily be avoided. This webinar is intended for those members located in Region 3.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Event Title: NNLM Region 3 Budget Walkthrough
Date(s): January 27, 2025
Summary: During this grants workshop session, NNLM Region 3 staff will take participants on an in-depth look at the budget narrative and worksheet required for grant submissions. This is a chance for grant applicants to clarify any budget issues they might have and to ask any final questions before the February 17th application deadline. This webinar is intended for members in Region 3.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Event Title: NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Overview
Date(s): January 28, 2025
Summary: This session is intended for information professionals who are unfamiliar with the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy. We will review policy components and how you can address the policy at your institution.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Event Title: NLM Office Hours: NLM Digital Collections
Date(s): January 28, 2025
Summary: Join us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours. This session will focus on NLM Digital Collections, which provides access to the National Library of Medicine's distinctive digital content in the areas of biomedicine, health care and the history of medicine.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Event Title: NNLM Book Discussion What the Eyes Don't See by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha (February 1 - April 30, 2025)
Date(s): February 1, 2025 - April 30, 2025
Summary: Join us February 1 - April 30, 2025 to discuss the book What the Eyes Don't See by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha.
Platform/Location: Zoom, Moodle
Date(s): February 12, 2025
Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in libraries and archives as a powerful tool for enhancing metadata, improving search and discovery, recommending resources, powering library chatbots, and more. However, AI systems also have the potential to cause social, technical, and ethical problems. In response to these issues, the IMLS-funded Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives project has created an ethical reflection aid to facilitate responsible implementation of AI systems in libraries and archives. During this webinar, members of the project team will discuss research results and introduce the prototype ethical reflection aid.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Date(s): February 12, 2025
Summary: Data sharing and data discovery are essential parts of the research process, and tools from the National Library of Medicine are available to help! The NNLM Data Repository Finder is meant to help locate NIH-supported repositories for sharing research data. It is a tool that asks you to answer a set of questions about your research and shows you which repositories are available for your data sharing needs. And to help with data discovery, the NLM Dataset Catalog is a catalog of biomedical datasets from various repositories for users to search, retrieve, and connect with datasets to accelerate scientific research. This session will show how to use these tools, and the presenters will be available to answer any questions.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Event Title: 2025 MeSH Highlights
Date(s): February 12, 2025
Summary: Every year, updates are made to MeSH, the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed and for cataloging books and other resources. This annual webinar aims to introduce those changes and provide examples of how the changes may affect you as a PubMed searcher.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Date(s): February 13, 2025
Summary: As we consider “Whose data is it, anyway?”, it is also critical to discuss what becomes of the knowledge generated from related data analyses and how that might promote health equity in today’s healthcare landscape. Recent revolutions in AI render such a discussion even more timely and imperative.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Event Title: NCDS 2025 Internship Information Session
Date(s): February 14, 2025
Summary: Attend this session to learn all about the NCDS internship, including steps toward applying, timeline, and more.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Date(s): February 19, 2025
Summary: During this interactive class, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from NLM staff about annual MeSH changes and how they affect your PubMed searches, ask questions, and practice searching with MeSH in PubMed.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Date(s): March 5, 2025
Summary: Join NNLM Staff on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 as we add citations to Wikipedia articles using trusted National Library of Medicine resources. This event addresses increasing health equity through information and the NNLM initiative of citizen science by engaging communities in editing Wikipedia health-related articles with well-sourced additions.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Event Title: Data for Everyone
Date(s): March 6, 2025
Summary: This class will be an introduction to learning about data. If you have any interest in learning about data but do not know where to start, this class is a great entry point to and foundation for classes currently offered in data management, data science, data services, and statistics.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Event Title: LGBTQIA+ Care: Stigma, Disparities, and Terminology
Date(s): March 18, 2025
Summary: Join us for an informative webinar designed for health professionals, focusing on key LGBTQIA+ concepts and terminology, the relationship between stigma and LGBTQIA+ health disparities, and best practices in LGBTQIA+ health. Learn about effective communication, inclusive data collection, and creating a welcoming environment.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Event Title: Building Reference Skills for Nursing and Allied Health Research (March 24 - April 11, 2025)
Date(s): March 24, 2025 - April 11, 2025
Summary: This 3-week, 4 credit-hour self-paced online class is designed for library staff who support, or want to support, nursing and allied health professionals with NLM resources.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Event Title: Making Sense of Numbers (April 2, 2025)
Date(s): April 2, 2025
Summary: This 1.5 hour webinar explains how to interpret statistics and numbers.
Platform/Location: Zoom