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Scheduled Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A Guide to Getting Started in Research and Publishing | November 13, 2024 | This webinar is designed to give new professionals a look at how to approach publishing and research as new librarians, faculty, and/or professionals. Starting with idea formation and running through finding collaborators, submitting to the IRB, submitting the first manuscript, rewrites and more.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| When Your Community Is Your Hospital | November 13, 2024 | This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series. This presentation will provide an overview of a partnership that connected organizations in the rural northern region of California with a bilingual health educator and delivered local trainings, both in English and Spanish, that allowed community health workers to learn among their peers about the health information resources from the National Library of Medicine and other resources in their communities.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Impact of Libraries and Informationists on Patient and Population Care | November 14, 2024 | Join informationists from the Taubman Health Sciences Library at the University of Michigan to hear about their mixed methods research on the impact of libraries and Informationists on patient and population care.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Promoting Walking for Health in Rural Communities | November 14, 2024 | This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series. Rural American adults have higher rates of chronic physical activity-related illness and are less active than their urban counterparts, with less than 20% meeting U.S. physical activity guidelines of 150-300 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Customizing Bioinformatics Support for Diverse Communities (November 15, 2024) | November 15, 2024 | Librarians from University of Florida, University of California, Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins University discuss different ways they teach bioinformatics to their community. This 1 hour webinar is part of the Evolution of Bioinformatics Services in Libraries Speaker Series (Fall 2024).
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Creating Maawn Doobiigeng: Developing A New Classification System for a Tribal Library | November 15, 2024 | Existing organizational systems including Dewey Decimal System and Library of Congress Classification are inherently damaging to Indigenous people and are insufficient for accurately describing and providing access to Native topics. From 2019 to 2024, the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Libraries worked with community members to create a new classification system, Maawn Doobiigeng (Gather Together). A member of the workgroup and the Tribal Librarian will share about the process of creating this new system, how it is being implemented, and how it is being used in the libraries, particularly in terms of health-related resources.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Palmetto Connect: Fostering Digital Inclusion in Rural South Carolina | November 19, 2024 | This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series that taking place in November. This session will cover a program designed to help close the digital divide for residents in rural and underserved areas of South Carolina by increasing internet access and affordability, training people in digital literacy, and connecting individuals to quality-of-life resources such as telehealth through digital inclusion.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
Regional Events
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On-Demand Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Workshop On-Demand | On-demand through April 17, 2026 | This on-demand workshop offered in Moodle is intended for those without much experience working in research data management and will provide an overview of the NIH policy, research data management basics, and related resources.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Preprints: Accelerating Research (On-Demand) | On-demand through 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 |
| Prescription and Over the Counter Drugs: Supporting Patients with Evidence-Based Information | On-demand through 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 NIDA website, DailyMed and LactMed.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| PubChem (On-Demand) | On-demand through 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 |
| PubMed Essentials On-Demand 2024 | On-demand through April 15, 2025 | If you’re new to PubMed or just want a refresher, this online class is designed for you. This is a 1 MLA CE, self-paced course offered via Moodle. The class is available 24/7. The class is made up of 10 short units that include videos, exercises and quizzes. The class gives you the chance to explore PubMed at your own pace with guided tours and exercises.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Recorded Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) Webinars | On-demand through August 8, 2024 | Registration is closed for this class.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Standardize Your Research Data with the NIH Common Data Element Repository – On Demand | On-demand through June 17, 2025 | This interactive, on-demand course is intended to introduce researchers and librarians to common data elements (CDEs) and how to use the NIH Common Data Element Repository.
Platform/Location: Moodle |