New Classes
New Classes
Check out the new classes from the Network of the National Library of Medicine. Register or learn more by clicking on the event title.
Event Title: NNLM Region 5 Funding Opportunities
Date(s): February 6, 2025
Summary: NNLM Region 5 has three new funding opportunities for our May 2025 – April 2026 funding period, including Technology Improvement Awards, Collection Improvement Awards, and Professional Development Awards.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Date(s): February 7, 2025 - March 21, 2025
Summary: This six-week asynchronous course provides hands-on experience with generative AI models for education, with specific applications to health sciences
Platform/Location: Moodle
Date(s): February 10, 2025
Summary: Interested in introducing Citizen Science into your library's programming and circulating collections? This is an opportunity to hear from partners who have done it.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Date(s): February 11, 2025
Summary: Offered by the NNLM National Evaluation Center (NEC), this 1-hour long training session is designed to equip you with essential skills using Microsoft Excel.
This is the first session in a series of five related trainings. Only this first session will take place during the 2025 Love Data Week.
This is the first session in a series of five related trainings. Only this first session will take place during the 2025 Love Data Week.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Date(s): February 13, 2025
Summary: This is a two-workshop series to introduce trauma-informed care tools. The first workshop will focus on what is and isn’t trauma-informed through a set of reframes. We will then focus on how to better navigate shifting power dynamics from a lens of liberatory power by examining the trauma-informed reframe: Power Over to Power With.
In the second workshop, Nisha will focus on the impact of feelings and needs in your everyday work life, and she will introduce trauma-informed communication strategies based on her Trauma-Informed Communication Framework.
In the second workshop, Nisha will focus on the impact of feelings and needs in your everyday work life, and she will introduce trauma-informed communication strategies based on her Trauma-Informed Communication Framework.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Date(s): February 24, 2025 - March 7, 2025
Summary: This 2-week online course introduces the concept of community-based librarianship using design theory and appreciative inquiry.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Date(s): February 27, 2025
Summary: This is a two-workshop series to introduce trauma-informed care tools. The first workshop will focus on what is and isn’t trauma-informed through a set of reframes. We will then focus on how to better navigate shifting power dynamics from a lens of liberatory power by examining the trauma-informed reframe: Power Over to Power With.
In the second workshop, Nisha will focus on the impact of feelings and needs in your everyday work life, and she will introduce trauma-informed communication strategies based on her Trauma-Informed Communication Framework.
In the second workshop, Nisha will focus on the impact of feelings and needs in your everyday work life, and she will introduce trauma-informed communication strategies based on her Trauma-Informed Communication Framework.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Event Title: Empowering Communities Through Digital Health Literacy: The Role of Medical and Community Librarians
Date(s): March 4, 2025
Summary: This session highlights how medical and community librarians can play a transformative role in empowering individuals and communities to navigate digital health tools effectively.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Date(s): March 17, 2025 - March 28, 2025
Summary: This 2-week course describes the principles of Asset-Based Community Development as a tool for building community coalition and for community storytelling.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Date(s): March 20, 2025
Summary: NNLM Region 2 will be hosting a virtual Mental Health First Aid Training class on March 20th from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST. There are two parts to the virtual training: 2.5 hours of self-led online pre-work required 48 hours prior to the start of the live Zoom session and 5.5 hours of live virtual training on March 20th via Zoom 8:30 a.m.-2:30p EST (this includes a 30-minute lunch break)
This class can support 30 participants. If this training reaches capacity, a waitlist will be created for further training opportunities in Spring 2025. Training will be provided by Amanda Sammons at the Medical University of South Carolina. For questions, please email region2@nnlm.com.
This session is reserved for participants in the Region 2 states and territories of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
This class can support 30 participants. If this training reaches capacity, a waitlist will be created for further training opportunities in Spring 2025. Training will be provided by Amanda Sammons at the Medical University of South Carolina. For questions, please email region2@nnlm.com.
This session is reserved for participants in the Region 2 states and territories of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Event Title: Course 3: Building Successful Collaborations with Communities: Collective Impact (March 31 – April 11, 2025)
Date(s): March 31, 2025 - April 11, 2025
Summary: This 2-week online course describes the essential elements of Collective Impact approach to community engagement, based on design theory.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Date(s): April 3, 2025
Summary: NNLM Region 2 will be hosting a virtual Mental Health First Aid Training class on April 3rd from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST. There are two parts to the virtual training: 2.5 hours of self-led online pre-work required 48 hours prior to the start of the live Zoom session and 5.5 hours of live virtual training on April 3rd via Zoom 8:30 a.m.-2:30p EST (this includes a 30-minute lunch break)
This class can support 30 participants. If this training reaches capacity, a waitlist will be created for further training opportunities in Spring 2025. Training will be provided by Amanda Sammons at the Medical University of South Carolina. For questions, please email region2@nnlm.com.
This session is reserved for participants in the Region 2 states and territories of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
This class can support 30 participants. If this training reaches capacity, a waitlist will be created for further training opportunities in Spring 2025. Training will be provided by Amanda Sammons at the Medical University of South Carolina. For questions, please email region2@nnlm.com.
This session is reserved for participants in the Region 2 states and territories of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Event Title: Course 4: Building Successful Collaborations with Communities: Grassroots Leadership (April 14 - April 25, 2025)
Date(s): April 14, 2025 - April 25, 2025
Summary: This 2-week online course uses the knowledge and tools presented in previous courses of the series, and explores the process to construct a framework for a community development initiative and the role of librarians in grassroots leadership activism.
Platform/Location: Moodle