NNLM Book Discussion offers librarians, health professionals, and public health workers interested in better understanding health issues faced by their communities an opportunity to explore topics with other professionals and earn Continuing Education Credit.

Participants can complete the book and earn CE credit on their schedule. A new book is selected each quarter. Participants can acquire the book in their preferred format and have 3 months to complete the requirements and earn 4 MLA CE by participating in either an online or live discussion

The NNLM Carpentries Workshop Series will offer several workshops covering different topics.

The target audience is learners who have little to no prior computational experience, and the instructors put a priority on creating a friendly environment to empower learners and enable data-driven discovery. Even those with some experience will benefit, as the goal is to teach not only how to do analyses, but how to manage the process to make it as automated and reproducible as possible.

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Workshops have live captioning.

Please join NNLM Regions, Offices and Centers (ROCs) on May 11, 2023 as they highlight their activities from the past year and share upcoming activities programs that NNLM members can look forward to in the coming year. 

Recordings are available under 'previous classes' tab for select ROCs. View recording of national update (May 11, 2023) from NLM Headquarters.

This webinar series supports the provision of information to institutions and communities, public access to biomedical literature and research results and access to information in disaster situations. 

Each webinar will focus on a different topic with a guest speaker.

Thinking of applying for NNLM Region 1 funding for projects? This timely series will answer your questions and help you get started.

Part 1 - Ready? Funding lingo; Basic info on 2023-2024 grants from Region 1; How to deconstruct a CFA/RFA/RFP; Q&A

The NNLM Region 6 Speaker Series is an intermittent webinar series hosted by NNLM Region 6. It showcases guest speakers who address various topics relevant to our members, including librarians, public health practitioners, educators, clinicians, and other healthcare information professionals. Our selection of topics is influenced by audience preferences and requests, trends, seasonal relevance, and speaker availability, ensuring a dynamic and engaging experience for all participants.

The PNC-MLA Health Equity and Diversity Speaker Series is a collaboration between NNLM Region 5 and Pacific Northwest Chapter/Medical Library Association (PNC-MLA) through the efforts of its Diversity Committee.

This series features expert guest speakers presenting on topics pertaining to health equity and diversity.

The PNC-MLA Health Equity and Diversity Speaker Series will be scheduled intermittently; please check the NNLM Regional Classes training schedule for upcoming webinar sessions.

What are preprints, and how are they changing how biomedical research results are shared?
Should you use information from preprints? Should you share your own research results in a preprint? This course from the National Library of Medicine® explains the basics of preprints, and explores the benefits and considerations of using and submitting preprints.

This 1 credit hour on-demand course will cover differences between prescription and over the counter medications, data regarding use in the United States, and three free resources from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health: the NIDA website, DailyMed and LactMed.  The course includes a recorded presentation, demos of the resources, and guided exercises to try the resources hands-on. 

This presentation addresses increasing health information access and use by including information about the NLM/NIH resources LactMed, DailyMed and NIDA.

This 1-hour webinar will discuss how to effectively respond to requests for mental health information at your library.

This presentation addresses increasing health information access and use, along with increasing health equity through information by highlighting resources from the National Library of Medicine and other government health information resources for patients, their families and friends.

This class is designed to assist librarians and others who work with diverse populations in locating health information. The resources presented are selected for their emphasis on providing culturally relevant information in the preferred language of the population. Background information on refugees and immigrants in the U.S. and their unique health issues will be presented.

This class is offered as a 4-hour CE Moodle class.

This presentation addresses increasing health information access and use, along with increasing health equity through information by highlighting information from National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus health information resource for patients and their families and friends, resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health and other freely available resources.

This self-paced PubChem tutorial guides you through how to access chemical property and structure data that hundreds of academic, government and industrial sources contribute to PubChem.  It includes step-by-step directions for how to find chemical information using chemical names, identifiers, molecular formulas, gene symbols, proteins, pathways, taxonomies, and structures. It also shows you how to use the rich connections between PubChem and other resources (like PubMed) to explore chemical information further, and how to download chemistry data from PubChem.

In this series of webinars, guest speakers will discuss a health information topic relevant to the public health workforce. Sessions aim to provide the public health workforce with new resources and skills to locate high quality health information or knowledge of health information topics. Programs will be featured on the national calendar and will be open to all, but the series will explicitly focus on meeting the health information needs of the public health.

If you’re new to PubMed or just want a refresher this online class is designed for you. The class is made up of 10 short units that include videos, exercises and quizzes. The class gives you the chance to explore PubMed at your own pace with guided tours and exercises. This class takes about 1 hour to complete. 

R4 Connections is a bi-monthly webinar featuring topics of interest for NNLM Region 4 members and beyond.

View previously recorded webinars, materials, and evaluation links for classes that qualify for the Medical Library Association's Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) certificate program. Following the completion of each webinar, an evaluation becomes available with directions to obtain CE credit. 

The NNLM Region 1 invites you to attend its first unconference! An unconference is a participant-oriented event where attendees structure the interactions, emphasizing conversations over formal presentations. The emphasis is on interaction between attendees and the discussions which emerge when participants are given an opportunity to engage with each other on topics of interest

NNLM Region 2 Webinar Series is an irregular webinar series from the NNLM Region 2, featuring guest speakers presenting on topics of interest to all our users, from librarians to public health practitioners, educators, clinicians, and others who work with health information. Topics will be scheduled according to audience interest, seasonal applicability, and speaker availability.

For more information, Contact us here!.

Join subject experts from Region 7 as they share their insights on resources, programs, methods and more on topics that are current and relevant for Network members.