Staff Bio
Erica Lake, MLS, AHIP
Health Sciences Librarians Outreach Specialist, Region 6
Erica Lake is the Health Sciences Librarians Outreach Specialist for the Network of the National Library of Medicine, Region 6. In this role, Erica engages with hospital and academic health sciences librarians, tribal college librarians, and library information science programs in the region, and teaches national NNLM webinars and Moodle courses.
Classes I Teach
| Event Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| Building Reference Skills for Nursing and Allied Health Research (March 24 - April 11, 2025) | 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. |
| Cancelled. ClinicalTrials.gov for Librarians | ClinicalTrials.gov is the openly available federal registry and results database of publicly and privately funded clinical studies conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov is a vital resource for researchers, healthcare providers, and health sciences librarians who wish to consult the entire body of evidence on any particular topic. |
| Climate Resilience Resources from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (September 25, 2024) | Learn about federal resources available to assist communities in planning for and responding to extreme heat events from Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. For a librarian audience. Part of NNLM Virtual Disaster Preparedness Forum (September, 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 terms of health-related resources. |
| Cybersecurity in the Rural Health Landscape (September 18, 2024) | Learn about the current state of rural health in America, with a focus on cybersecurity from guest speaker Alan Morgan, MPA, Chief Executive Officer for the National Rural Health Association. Part of NNLM Virtual Disaster Preparedness Forum (September, 2024). |
| How PubMed Works: ATM | This 90-minute class about PubMed's Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) takes an in-depth look at the contents of the 3 translation tables used to process and map your search terms. |
| How PubMed Works: ATM | This 90-minute class about PubMed's Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) takes an in-depth look at the contents of the 3 translation tables used to process and map your search terms. |
| How PubMed Works: Automatic Term Mapping | This 90-minute class about PubMed's Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) takes an in-depth look at the contents of the 3 translation tables used to process and map your search terms. |
| NIH Public Access Policy for Librarians | Learn the basics of the NIH Public Access Policy, the manuscript submission process, how to use NCBI and My Bibliography to track compliance, and potential roles for librarians. |
| Reproductive Health and the Reference Desk: How libraries can provide information in a post-Roe country, a Region 6 Spotlight Speaker webinar | This webinar will discuss reproductive health as an information access concern, introduce the Reproductive Justice framework, and offer ideas for how libraries can provide create environments that are supportive of sexual and reproductive health information. |
