Class Recordings

Synergizing Libraries with NCBI/NIH Resources (November 8, 2024)

NLM, NCBI and NNLM colleagues share the successes and challenges in meeting the evolving needs of biomedical researchers and those who support them through the lens of NLM's many years of specialized NCBI training programs. 

Friday, November 8, 2-3pm ET | 1-2pm CT | 12-1pm MT | 11am-12pm PT

Rana Morris, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine

Rana Morris is an National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Customer Experience team member and the Outreach Program Lead at the National Library of Medicine.…
Date: November 8, 2024

Open Tools for Data De-identification

Data de-identification often poses a challenge to researchers. With more funders supporting or requiring data sharing, data de-identification is a crucial step in the data management lifecycle. Explore openly available tools and technologies to help with data de-identification, including how machine learning and natural language processing apply to data de-identification.

Learn about the NLM Scrubber and other open NLP tools that can be used for clinical text de-identification. This session includes a demonstration of how to run NLM Scrubber and shows the types of data it can find…
Date: November 7, 2024

Facilitating Rural Access to Quality Health Information through Little Free Libraries

This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series in November 2024.

This webinar addresses a NNLM grant-funded community partnership between a public library and a university health science library to add health education components to 30 new public library-sponsored Little Free Libraries built on rural county properties. The project goals were to improve rural residents’ health literacy skills, increase access to quality health information for diverse populations, and raise awareness of NIH’s All of Us Research Program. 

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Date: November 7, 2024

Building Healthy, Resilient Communities in Florida’s Rural Panhandle

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An exploration of the collaborative partnerships between public libraries and harm reduction organizations across the United States

This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series in November 2024.

Dr. Margaret Sullivan was recently awarded an IMLS grant to explore the relationship between the opioid use population and how they utilize their local library. This presentation will provide an overview of preliminary data from opioid…
Date: November 6, 2024

Launching Bioinformatics Programs with Limited Resources (November 1, 2024)

Learn how librarians from University of Maryland, University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Berkeley built bioinformatics programs on limited resources.

Friday, November 1, 2-3pm ET | 1-2pm CT | 12-1pm MT | 11am-12pm PT

Amy Yarnell, University of Maryland

Amy Yarnell is the Head of Data and Bioinformation Services in the Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

In this talk, Amy will describe the development of my library’s Center for Data and Bioinformation Services, initially anchored…
Date: November 1, 2024

From Problem to Prevention: Evidence-Based Public Health (October 31, 2024)

Curious about evidence-based public health (EBPH) but not sure where to start? This class will explain the basics of evidence-based public health (EBPH) and highlight essentials of the EBPH process such as identifying the problem, forming a question, searching the literature, and evaluating the intervention.  The purpose of this class is to provide an introduction to the world of evidence based public health and to give those already familiar with EBPH useful information that can be applied in their practices.

This presentation meets the NLM/NIH strategic plan goal of…
Date: October 31, 2024

NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Overview

The NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy requires funded researchers to submit a plan outlining how scientific data from their research will be managed and shared. This session is intended for information professionals who are unfamiliar with this policy and it will review the policy components and how you can prepare to address the policy at your institution. Topics to be covered include the context for the policy, the scope, the various components of the policy, institutional considerations for working with the policy in place, and tools and resources already available to help.

Expanding Bioinformatics Librarianship Beyond Academia (October 25, 2024)

Discover how bioinformatics librarianship is expanding through the experiences of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia's Arcus Initiative and NIH Library services in bibliometrics, bioinformatics, biostatistics, and data visualization.

Friday, October 25, 2-3pm ET | 1-2pm CT | 12-1pm MT | 11am-12pm PT

Julianna Pakstis, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Julianna Pakstis works as part of the Arcus initiative to describe archived research data from across the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She designs and produces metadata records and…
Date: October 25, 2024

The Evidence Pyramid Problem

In 2022, the Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing launched a series focused on revolutionizing processes for evidence-based practice (EBP). This series aims to identify longstanding EBP-related traditions that may be outdated or unsupported by evidence, or may simply add confusion, poor scholarship, and workload burden. 

In this webinar, the authors of the…
Date: October 24, 2024

Piecing Together Systematic Reviews. Phases 5-8: Preservation, Promotion, Impact and Update

This session will cover phases 5-8 of the PIECCESS review cycle, Preservation, Promotion, Impact. and Update. 

Margaret Foster, MS, MPH, is the Evidence Synthesis and Scholarly Communication Librarian and the Head of the Center for Systematic Reviews and Research Syntheses at the Medical Sciences Library, Texas A&M University. She is the co-author of the first book written on systematic reviews for librarians- Assembling the Pieces of a Systematic Review: A Guide for Librarians (2017) and recently Piecing Together Systematic Reviews and Other Evidence Syntheses…
Date: October 23, 2024