Fall is often a busy time for orienting new staff, house staff or incoming students. We have several things on our website’s Training and Educational Opportunities page to help you train others and keep up-to-date yourself.

Handouts & trifolds

We have a number of trifolds and handouts on MedlinePlus and PubMed that you can reproduce at http://nnlm.gov/psr/training/handouts.html Many of the Word versions of the trifolds are available so you can edit them in order to add your own information, too.

Training videos and distance learning

NLM has created short training videos called Search Clinics on topics such as Chemicals & Drugs in PubMed® and the PubMed® Update on Automatic Term Mapping, Citation Sensor, and Advanced Search. The links are available on our distance learning web site: http://nnlm.gov/psr/training/distance_learning/index.html.

There are also short one-to-four minute programs on using PubMed features, such MeSH and My NCBI available on NLM’s Distance Education Program Resources web site at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/dist_edu.html. These are great for you to update or review your knowledge or to refer patrons for more information or to reinforce what you have covered in your workshops.

PSR Distance Learning

Many of the online sessions that Sharon Dennis, our Technology Coordinator, has done and recorded are also available through our web site, http://nnlm.gov/psr/training/distance_learning/index.html. Here’s a sample:

• “RSS Feeds: The “New” Current Awareness Service” (1 hour session)
• Personalized Google (iGoogle) (1 hour session)
• “Microblogging” Using Twitter and FriendFeed (1 hour session)

The Distance Learning web site also links to consumer health topics from the Health e-Shows Series Kelli Ham has been doing in partnership with Infopeople, http://infopeople.org/. Here’s a list of topics:

• Webcast - A Younger Generation of Older Adults: Health Information for Boomers (October 22, 2007)
• Webcast - Communicating about Health: Empowering Patrons to Communicate with Their Health Care Providers (December 3, 2007)
• Webinar - An In-depth Look at MedlinePlus (March 4, 2008)
• Webinar - Beyond MedlinePlus: Resources That Answer Those Other Tough Health Reference Questions (May 14, 2008)
• Webinar - I Don’t Give Medical Advice; I Dispense Quality Health Information (June 19, 2008)
• Webinar - Understanding Health Literacy: Why It Is So Important and What Librarians Can Do to Help (August 14, 2008)
• Webinar - Health Information for Kids and Teens and Seniors, Oh My (October 28, 2008)
• Webinar - Finding Easy-to-Read and Multilingual Health Information for Your Patrons (December 1, 2008)

Available Classes

We have recently rearranged the web page that shows the Available Classes that we teach. The URL is http://nnlm.gov/psr/training/classes.html. Now classes are listed by subjects such as Consumer Health, Technology, or PubMed. You can make use of the materials used in the classes for your own instruction. Our staff also teaches classes and workshops highlighting NLM and NN/LM databases and services. If you would like to make arrangements or if you have any questions about our classes, please contact us at psr-nnlm@library.ucla.edu.

We are pleased to announce the NN/LM PSR E-Licensing Program! The following series of questions and answers will help you decide if you would like to participate in this new venture. These questions and answers are also available on the NN/LM PSR web site on the Licensing Electronic Resources page. Please contact Julie Kwan at the RML office if you have any questions. (more…)

In September 2008, the National Library of Medicine announced funding awards for the 15th round of AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects. (more…)

A redesign of PubMed’s My NCBI interface was released on September 25, 2008. The My NCBI Sign-In page now has additional features to help users easily access their accounts. (more…)

Older Adults and Health Information

Do you provide consumer health services and resources in your library? Specifically, are you providing health information to seniors? Many older adults are interested in finding health information on their own, but they may lack the necessary computer or Internet searching skills. If you have ever wanted to provide training to this user group, read on for some exciting news! (more…)

An emergency can be as wide-scale as an earthquake or flash flood or as local as a burst pipe in the book stacks. Do you know how to ensure the continuation of your primary services and access to your primary resources in the event of an emergency at your library? (more…)

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Welcome to our new EFTS members! There are now 195 EFTS members in the Pacific Southwest, representing 48.4% of our DOCLINE libraries! In addition, our region now has the second largest number of EFTS libraries; only the Middle Atlantic Region has more. (more…)

Now that so many libraries are joining EFTS, it’s time to rethink your routing table! Here’s how you can add EFTS libraries to it. (more…)

In addition to its work on emergency preparedness and response with the NN/LM program, the National Library of Medicine has embarked on the following initiatives: (more…)