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Event Title Date(s) Summary
Empowering Communities Through Digital Health Literacy: The Role of Medical and Community Librarians March 4, 2025 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

#CiteNLM Spring 2025 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (March 5, 2025) March 5, 2025 Join NNLM Staff on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 as we add citations to Wikipedia articles using trusted National Library of Medicine resources. This event addresses increasing health equity through information and the NNLM initiative of citizen science by engaging communities in editing Wikipedia health-related articles with well-sourced additions.

Platform/Location: Zoom

Data for Everyone March 6, 2025 This class will be an introduction to learning about data. If you have any interest in learning about data but do not know where to start, this class is a great entry point to and foundation for classes currently offered in data management, data science, data services, and statistics. 

Platform/Location: Zoom

Cancelled. 5 Steps to an Accessible Document March 11, 2025 This 90-minute, hands-on class will cover how to make documents created in Word and PowerPoint accessible to those who use screen reader assistive technology.

Platform/Location: Zoom

Course 2: Building Successful Collaborations with Communities: Asset-Based Community Development (March 17 - March 28, 2025) March 17, 2025 - March 28, 2025 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

How PubMed Works: Introduction March 18, 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

How PubMed Works: Selection March 20, 2025 This 90-minute class covers issues and concerns surrounding the current publishing landscape; the selection criteria for the different components of the PubMed database and NLM responsibilities and practices in collecting and providing access to the biomedical literature. MEDLINE and PMC staff will be available to answer audience questions.

Platform/Location: Zoom

On-Demand Classes

Event Title Date(s) Summary
Drug and Chemical Information 2. Finding Properties, Effects, and Interactions On-demand through May 1, 2025 Learn how to find drug and chemical information, adverse effects, molecular properties and more in this 2 hour on-demand class. Resources covered include PubChem, LactMed, LiverTox, NLM Bookshelf and PubMed.

Platform/Location: Moodle

Drug and Chemical Information 3. Exploring New Drug Research On-demand through May 1, 2025 Discover drug therapy clinical trials and learn how drugs, chemicals, and related topics are indexed in MeSH in order to hone a PubMed search strategy for systematic reviews and other complex research in this 2 hour on-demand class.

Platform/Location: Moodle

Drug Terminologies and RxNorm On-demand through August 21, 2025 Learn the basic concepts of medical terminologies, followed by a deep dive into NLM's RxNorm, an NLM-authored medical terminology specializing in drug information, in this 1 credit hour on-demand class.

Platform/Location: Moodle

Finding and Using Health Statistics On-demand through March 1, 2025 This online, self-paced course for librarians and students in health sciences describes different types of health statistics, how they are collected, and where they can be found.

Platform/Location: Moodle

Getting the Right Information to Patients Using MedlinePlus Connect On-demand through April 13, 2025 This 1 hour on-demand class introduces MedlinePlus Connect, and points to resources for implementing MedlinePlus Connect at your institution. MedlinePlus Connect is a tool that enables the integration of MedlinePlus resources into external systems like electronic health record systems, patient portals, and other applications. Working knowledge of MedlinePlus is suggested pre-requisite.

Platform/Location: Moodle

Health Data Standards and Terminologies On-demand through December 8, 2025 Explore the different types of health data standards and how they support interoperability of health information systems. Learn about relevant National Library of Medicine (NLM) terminology products, tools, and services in this on-demand, online class.

Platform/Location: Moodle

Health Literacy On Demand On-demand through 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

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