Molly Knapp, MA, AHIP

Training Development Manager, NTO

Molly develops, consults and conducts national level training initiatives on resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. With over 19 years of experience in academic medical center libraries, she joined the NTO in 2016. Molly is a Distinguished Member of the Medical Library Association’s Academy of Health Information Professionals and the 2012 Librarian of the Year of the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. Her professional affiliations include the Medical Library Association, and the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. Her research interests include the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy and mobile learning.  

Classes I Teach

Event Title Summary
AHEM: clearing the way to easy-to-read health materials Get an overview on assessing health education materials, and learn how the National Library of Medicine uses a health education materials assessment tool to figure out if health education materials are easy-to-read in this 2 hour on-demand, online class.
Consumer Health Information Specialization On Demand Discover the basics of providing consumer health information through 5 independent learning modules. Earn up to 5 hours credit towards a Consumer Health Information Specialization. This presentation addresses the NNLM goals to support a highly trained workforce for biomedical and health information resources and data, improve health literacy, increase health equity through information, and increase health information access and use by including information about the NLM/NIH resources MedlinePlus, PubMed ClnicalTrials, DailyMed and PubChem, and foundational concepts about health literacy and providing consumer health information to communities.
How PubMed Works: Introduction This 90 minute introduction class provides overviews about finding articles by a specific author and articles on a specific subject. The class also explores the Advanced Search Builder and Search History.
How PubMed Works: Introduction This 90-minute introduction session provides overviews about:

What PubMed is and what's in it.
Finding the original research that is the basis for a news article.
Finding articles by a specific author.
Searching for articles on a specific subject.
Narrowing search results to a more specific subset
Exploring the Advanced Search Builder and Search History.
How PubMed Works: Introduction This 90-minute introduction session provides overviews about:

What PubMed is and what's in it.
Finding the original research that is the basis for a news article.
Finding articles by a specific author.
Searching for articles on a specific subject.
Narrowing search results to a more specific subset
Exploring the Advanced Search Builder and Search History.
NLM Office Hours: MedlinePlus This NLM Office Hours: MedlinePlus will include a brief presentation by Javier Chavez from the MedlinePlus team, focusing on Spanish language consumer health information in MedlinePlus en Español. Following the demonstration, MedlinePlus team members will be available to answer your questions.
NTO: NNLM Day at MLA 2023 ​​​​​​Meet the NNLM Training Office (NTO) during NNLM Day at MLA 2023!

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