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Scheduled Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Graphic Medicine Discussion: The Most Costly Journey | November 12, 2024 | This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series in November 2024. Please join NNLM to participate in a discussion of the book Graphic Medicine Discussion: The Most Costly Journey covering topics such as the intersection of race, immigration status and geography on mental health, the uses of graphic medicine to tell overlooked stories, and more.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| A Guide to Getting Started in Research and Publishing | November 13, 2024 | 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.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| When Your Community Is Your Hospital | November 13, 2024 | This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series. This presentation will provide an overview of a partnership that connected organizations in the rural northern region of California with a bilingual health educator and delivered local trainings, both in English and Spanish, that allowed community health workers to learn among their peers about the health information resources from the National Library of Medicine and other resources in their communities.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Impact of Libraries and Informationists on Patient and Population Care | November 14, 2024 | Join informationists from the Taubman Health Sciences Library at the University of Michigan to hear about their mixed methods research on the impact of libraries and Informationists on patient and population care.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Promoting Walking for Health in Rural Communities | November 14, 2024 | This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series. 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.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Creating Maawn Doobiigeng: Developing A New Classification System for a Tribal Library | November 15, 2024 | 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 terms of health-related resources.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Customizing Bioinformatics Support for Diverse Communities (November 15, 2024) | November 15, 2024 | Librarians from University of Florida, University of California, Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins University discuss different ways they teach bioinformatics to their community. This 1 hour webinar is part of the Evolution of Bioinformatics Services in Libraries Speaker Series (Fall 2024).
Platform/Location: Zoom |
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On-Demand Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Health Literacy On Demand | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | Learn about health literacy definitions, best practices, tools for communicating health information clearly, and resources for improving health literacy. This on-demand narrated tutorial takes about an hour to complete. It offers CHES, CNE, and MLA credit.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| How PubMed Works: Automatic Term Mapping On-Demand | On-demand through April 30, 2025 | Learn about PubMed's automatic term mapping feature that kicks in automatically when you enter untagged terms into PubMed's search box. How PubMed Works: Automatic Term Mapping On-Demand is eligible for 1.5 MLA CE. This is a self-paced course offered via Moodle. The class is available 24/7. Platform/Location: Moodle |
| How PubMed Works: Introduction On-Demand | On-demand through April 15, 2026 | How PubMed Works: Introduction On-Demand is eligible for 1.5 MLA CE. This is a self-paced course offered via Moodle. The class is available 24/7. Platform/Location: Moodle |
| How PubMed Works: MeSH On-Demand | On-demand through April 15, 2025 | How PubMed Works: MeSH On-Demand is eligible for 1.5 MLA CE. This is a self-paced course offered via Moodle. The class is available 24/7. Platform/Location: Moodle |
| How PubMed Works: Selection On-Demand | On-demand through April 30, 2025 | How PubMed Works: Selection On-Demand is eligible for 1.5 MLA CE. This is a self-paced course offered via Moodle. The class is available 24/7. Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Introduction to All of Us | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | An introduction to the All of Us Research Program and its transformative research.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Introduction to Health Reference: Ethics and Best Practices (2022) | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | In this 4 credit-hour, on-demand class learn how to conduct a health reference interview using ethical and effective communication strategies. Content includes narrated and interactive self-paced tutorials. This class addresses increasing health information access and use by including information about the NLM/NIH resource MedlinePlus "Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine". Platform/Location: Moodle |