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Scheduled Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| NNLM Book Discussion, Nov 1, 2023 - Jan 31, 2024: Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg | November 1, 2023 - January 31, 2024 | Join us November 1, 2023 - January 31, 2024 to discuss Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg.
Platform/Location: Zoom, Moodle |
| Expanding Claire's Community Y2 Project: Creating a Partner Violence Prevention Education Program | December 13, 2023 | Claire’s Community is comprehensive relationship violence prevention program created to teach safe and healthy relationship skills; engage and equip influential adults and peers; disrupt pathways to relationship violence; and create proactive, protective, and safe communities. This project was made possible from funding by NNLM Region 3 in Year 2.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| NaNDA: An Open Data Resource for Health Science Researchers | January 10, 2024 | Health disparities are a function of access to and control over the multiple determinants of health, including the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age. This webinar will provide an overview of the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) and discuss how neighborhoods operate as a social determinant of health.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| 2024 MeSH Highlights | January 10, 2024 | Every year, updates are made to MeSH, the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed and for cataloging books and other resources. This annual webinar aims to introduce those changes and provide examples of how the changes may affect you as a PubMed searcher.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Health Data Privacy in the Library | January 11, 2024 | This webinar will explore the role libraries play in patron health journeys, which includes the layout of our physical spaces, the way we handle sensitive documents, which resources we share, and more. Privacy advocate Tess Wilson will discuss practical approaches to patron support and ways we might teach patrons about their health data safety.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials For Librarians: Databases, Tools and Clinical Applications (January - April 2024) | January 16, 2024 - April 22, 2024 | This 14-week, 30 credit-hour, self-paced online class reviews basic biology concepts and takes a deep dive into NCBI Molecular Biology Databases.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Providing Mental Health Information at Your Library | January 18, 2024 | Responding to questions involving topics on mental health is challenging even for the most experienced librarian. In this 1-hour webinar, participants will learn how to effectively respond to requests for mental health information at their libraries.
Platform/Location: Webex |
Regional Events
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Region 1 Unconference: Environmental Determinants of Health (Day 3) | December 7, 2023 | Environmental factors can influence human health, including physical, chemical, and biological factors that are external to a person, and all related behaviors. Collectively, these are referred to as environmental determinants of health (EDHs). Threats to any one of the EDHs can have an adverse impact on the health and well-being of the population. At this unconference, we want to hear how you are engaging with your users. Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Getting Started with the PHDL at Maine CDC | December 12, 2023 | This session is specifically for staff of the Maine CDC as they are members of the Public Health Digital Library. Basic access to the collection and available resources will be discussed. Live demonstrations will be shown during the session and especially feature some of the special databases in the collection. Platform/Location: |
On-Demand Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A Bird's Eye View of Health Data Standards - On Demand | On-demand through January 1, 2025 | Understand the big picture of health data standards and how they are used, including relevant National Library of Medicine (NLM) products and services, in this 1 hour, on-demand, online class. Expect to spend 1 hour learning through videos and exercises.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| AHEM: clearing the way to easy-to-read health materials | On-demand through April 25, 2025 | 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.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Common Data Elements: Standardizing Data Collection | On-demand through June 17, 2025 | This online, self-paced course describes how librarians and other information professionals can facilitate data standardization and research data sharing using common data elements (CDEs).
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Consumer Health Collection Management - On Demand | On-demand through October 31, 2024 | This 4 credit-hour, on-demand class reviews collection management principles and resources for health-related collections in public libraries.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Consumer Health Information Specialization On Demand | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | 5 independent 1-hour learning modules cover the basics of providing consumer health information in libraries and organizations. Earn up to 5 hours credit towards a Consumer Health Information Specialization.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Disaster Planning Recorded Webinars | On-demand through September 7, 2024 | This Moodle class supports the provision of information to institutions and communities during disaster situations. We've gathered several of our past webinars in one place. Each webinar features one or more guest speakers. Each recording is worth 1 MLA CE credit. Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Drug and Chemical Information 1. Using, Providing and Prescribing Medications | On-demand through May 1, 2025 | Learn how to find drug and chemical safety information, side effects, and interactions in MedlinePlus and locate prescription and over-the-counter FDA drug labeling in DailyMed in this 2 hour on-demand class.
Platform/Location: Moodle |