This page contains descriptions of all NNLM classes, including previous classes.
To browse available offerings or register for a class, visit Available Classes. For class recordings, May 2021 - present, visit Class Recordings.
| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| NNLM 2024 Showcase Symposium | The NNLM 2024 Virtual Symposium highlighted projects and activities that NNLM Regional Medical Libraries, Offices, and Centers sponsored. Each of the projects are in support NNLM's Mission, the national initiatives, and/or the NLM Strategic Plan. Additionally, the NNLM hosted events to support you in planning and applying for grants to do your own project. |
| NNLM Book Discussion | 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 own schedule. The discussion covers Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) competencies 2 and 3 from MLA: |
| NNLM Region 6 Speaker Spotlight Webinars | 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. |
| Open Tools for Data De-identification | The webinar will provide a brief introduction to data science topics and terminologies. Topics will include AI in healthcare, explaining what natural language processing is, and discussing HIPAA privacy requirements and defining PII. This first part will be brief and focus on providing a foundational understanding. The second and bulk of the class will focus on the NLM Scrubber and CliniDeID as examples of NLP models that can be used for clinical deidentification. The class will cover how to promote these tools at the librarians' institution. |
| Prescription and Over the Counter Drugs: Supporting Patients with Evidence-Based Information (On-Demand) | 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: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) website, DailyMed and LactMed. The class includes a recorded presentation, demos of the resources, and guided exercises to try the resources hands-on. |
| Providing Mental Health Resources at Your Library | This 1-hour webinar will explore several websites to respond to requests for mental health information at their libraries. Sites that we'll explore include MedlinePlus, DailyMed, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). |
| Providing Multilingual Health Information | This webinar addresses increasing health information access and use 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. |
| PubChem Tutorial | 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. |
| PubMed Essentials On-Demand | 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 (listed below) that include videos, hands-on exercises and short quizzes. The class gives you the chance to explore PubMed at your own pace. This class takes about 1 hour to complete. This class addresses increasing health information access and use by highlighting information about the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed bibliographic database. |
| R4 Connections Webinar Series | R4 Connections is a bi-monthly webinar featuring topics of interest for NNLM Region 4 members and beyond. |
| Region 1 Unconference 2023 | 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 |
| Region 7 Presents | 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. |