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Event Title Start Date End Date Summary Type ROC
NNLM Book Discussion, May 1 - July 31 2025, The Well-Gardened Mind May 1, 2025 July 31, 2025 You are invited to join us for the NNLM Book Discussion. From May 1 through July 31, we will read The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
by Sue Stuart-Smith
Platform/Location: Zoom
Upcoming Region 6
Librarian's Guide to Consumer Health July 14, 2025 August 8, 2025 This 4-week, 4 credit-hour self-paced online class covers the health information seeking behavior of consumers and the role of the librarian in the provision of health information for the public.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Upcoming National
R4 Connections: How Libraries Can Help Address Complex Health and Research Challenges July 14, 2025 July 14, 2025 This one-hour webinar will discuss how libraries can be key facilitators of citizen science projects.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Upcoming National
Connecting Older Adults to Health Information July 23, 2025 July 23, 2025 This 90-minute webinar covers websites and data sources to help you respond to requests for health information from and about older adults at your library, as well as covering programming ideas.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Upcoming National
Health Statistics on the Web (July 29, 2025) July 29, 2025 July 29, 2025 Learn the difference between data and statistics, key features and use of health statistics, steps to finding health statistics, and sources of health statistics at the local, state and national level in this 90-minute webinar.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Upcoming National
ClinicalTrials.gov for Librarians July 30, 2025 July 30, 2025 ClinicalTrials.gov is the openly available federal registry and results database of publicly and privately funded clinical studies conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov is a vital resource for researchers, healthcare providers, and health sciences librarians who wish to consult the entire body of evidence on any particular topic.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Upcoming National
NNLM Book Discussion, August 1 - October 31, 2025, Transcendent Kingdom August 1, 2025 October 31, 2025 You are invited to join us for the NNLM Book Discussion. From August 1 through October 31, we will read Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Upcoming Region 7
Region 7 Presents: Cultivating a Grief Sensitive Community through Library and Community-Based Partnerships August 5, 2025 August 5, 2025 In this one-hour panel presentation, participants will learn about the work of two organizations in support of mental health and suicide prevention in libraries.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Upcoming Region 7
The Research Data Services Landscape: How Do You Start and Where Does Your Library Fit In? August 5, 2025 August 5, 2025 Are you curious about what this whole data thing entails? Are you interested in starting new research data services at your institution? Have you considered a career in data services? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, this webinar is for you. We'll discuss how to start and where your library fits in.
Platform/Location: Webex
Upcoming NCDS
Region 7: Hospital Libraries Advisory Group Annual Meeting August 8, 2025 August 8, 2025 This meeting is designed for hospital librarians that work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. We will recap our activities over the last year and we will announce our training ideas for the upcoming months.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Upcoming Region 7
Health Programming at your Library October 1, 2025 October 1, 2025 Join us for ideas on how to create health programs for libraries and community/faith-based organizations in this 90-minute webinar.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Upcoming National
Providing Mental Health Resources at Your Library October 9, 2025 October 9, 2025 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: Zoom
Upcoming National
NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Overview October 16, 2025 October 16, 2025 This session is intended for information professionals who are unfamiliar with the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy. We will review policy components and how you can address the policy at your institution.
Platform/Location: Webex
Upcoming NCDS
How PubMed Works: Introduction November 5, 2025 November 5, 2025 This 90-minute introduction session provides overviews about:

What PubMed is and what's in it.
Finding the original research that is the basis for a news article.
Finding articles by a specific author.
Searching for articles on a specific subject.
Narrowing search results to a more specific subset
Exploring the Advanced Search Builder and Search History.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Upcoming National
How PubMed Works: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) November 12, 2025 November 12, 2025 The How PubMed Works: MeSH session addresses increasing health information access and use by highlighting information about the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed bibliographic database.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Upcoming National
How PubMed Works: Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) November 19, 2025 November 19, 2025 The How PubMed Works: Automatic Term Mapping session addresses increasing health information access and use by highlighting information about the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed bibliographic database.
Platform/Location: Zoom
Upcoming National
MedlinePlus Tutorial for Librarians and Health Educators August 25, 2021 November 1, 2025 An interactive guided tour of the MedlinePlus website that takes about 1 hour to complete.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Always Available National
Prescription and Over the Counter Drugs: Supporting Patients with Evidence-Based Information August 30, 2021 April 30, 2026 This 1 credit hour on-demand course provides an introduction to three free resources from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health: The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) website, DailyMed and LactMed.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Always Available National
Common Data Elements: Standardizing Data Collection September 1, 2021 May 12, 2026 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
Always Available National
Health Literacy On Demand October 11, 2021 April 30, 2026 Learn about health literacy definitions, best practices, tools for communicating health information clearly, and resources for improving health literacy. This on-demand narrated tutorial takes about an hour to complete. It offers CHES, CNE, and MLA credit.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Always Available National
Preprints: Accelerating Research (On-Demand) October 14, 2021 October 16, 2025 What are preprints, and how are they changing how biomedical research results are shared? This 1-hour, online, self-paced course introduces preprints and how they can be used in literature searching and in sharing your research results with others. 
Platform/Location: Moodle
Always Available National
How PubMed Works: Introduction On-Demand May 11, 2022 April 17, 2026 How PubMed Works: Introduction On-Demand is eligible for 1.5 MLA CE.

This is a self-paced course offered via Moodle. The class is available 24/7.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Always Available NTO
Consumer Health Information Specialization On-Demand July 11, 2022 April 30, 2026 Discover the basics of providing consumer health information through 8 independent learning modules. Earn up to 8 hours credit towards a Consumer Health Information Specialization.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Always Available National
PubChem (On-Demand) July 22, 2022 July 20, 2026 PubChem is the National Library of Medicine’s open chemistry database and the largest freely accessible reference tool for chemical information.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Always Available National
Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) Changes and PubMed Searching On-Demand February 21, 2023 February 28, 2026 Learn how to accommodate for vocabulary changes over time in your comprehensive searches of PubMed.

This 1.5 CE credit on-demand course, offered through the NNLM Moodle platform, provides answers and allows participants to engage with exercises to practice what you learn.
Platform/Location: Moodle
Always Available National