NN/LM Classes in the NTCC Clearinghouse
There are 32 class resources listed in the NTCC Clearinghouse that have been published by NN/LM staff:
- Title: ABCs of DNA: Unraveling the Mystery of Genetics Information for Consumers
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/genetics/index.html
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Consumers need access to information and resources about genetic information in a manner that is understandable. Librarians working with the public need to be aware of the issues surrounding genetics and resources to assist patrons in locating and evaluating sometimes complex and confusing information. This class explores basic concepts such as genes and chromosomes and offers an overview of genetic disorders, genetic testing, genetic counseling, and the Human Genome Project. Ethical and legal issues associated with genetic disorders will be covered with regard to privacy, discrimination, and potential legislative impact on medicine and society. A variety of reliable health information resources will be demonstrated, including, but not limited to: Genetics Home Reference, ClinicalTrials.gov, CHID (Combined Health Information Database), NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders), and MedlinePlus. This 4-hour hands-on class is intended for consumers, public librarians, and health sciences librarians who work with the public. (Clearinghouse record last modified on October 24th, 2008) - Title: African American Community Health
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/aframhealth/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Description: African American communities see diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease affecting their friends and families every day. Free online resources from the National Library of Medicine and other reliable sources are available to help. This two hour class will provides participants with some basic health information as well as information specific to the African American community. The class is available hands-on or as an interactive presentation. 2 hours. (Clearinghouse record last modified on October 24th, 2008) - Title: ¿No Comprende? Spanish Health Information Resources for English Speaking Librarians class description
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/nocomprende/
Languages: English; Spanish
Audience: Public
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This page describes the class including an abstract, objectives, course materials, MLA CE, and who teaches it. This 4-hour hands-on class will cover resources for learning basic, library, medical, and Internet Spanish vocabulary. You will also learn to evaluate and identify health websites in Spanish to which you can direct your patrons. (Clearinghouse record last modified on December 22nd, 2008) - Title: Beyond an Apple a Day: Providing Consumer Health Information at Your Library
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/apple/
Languages: English
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Want to improve your consumer health collection and services? Interested in improving your reference skills for providing health information for the public? Then this class is for you. Starting with a discussion about the information seeking behaviors of consumers, the class focuses on the provision of consumer health information services for the public. We will also cover health literacy, planning the service, the reference interview, consumer health online, collection development, collaboration, community partnerships, outreach and marketing. Students will also learn about how to stay up to date on consumer health librarianship. (Clearinghouse record last modified on December 19th, 2008) - Title: Can You Hear Me Now? How to Make a Podcast
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/podcast/index.html
Languages: Chinese; English
Audience: Public
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: (Clearinghouse record last modified on September 24th, 2008) - Title: Caring for the Mind: Providing Reference Services for Mental Health Information
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/caringforthemind/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Responding to mental health reference questions is challenging for even the most experienced librarian. In "Caring for the Mind", participants will learn how to effectively provide reference services for mental health information for the public. Participants will learn the best web sites, databases and collection development materials to respond to mental health related questions. Best approaches to handling challenging reference interviews will be explored. This class will increase your knowledge of consumer level mental health resources. (Clearinghouse record last modified on October 30th, 2008) - Title: Combatting Information Fatigue: Health Information Resources for Veterans
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/veteranshealth/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This course covers resources for finding information on general health conditions, mental health resources including those for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), family issues, substance abuse, amputations, support groups and more. Additionally, this class will prepare participants to find and assess other veterans’ health resources. (Clearinghouse record last modified on March 24th, 2008) - Title: Finding Native Health Info Online
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/nativehealth/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Whether you are a community health care worker, a librarian, or just want to be informed, this hands-on class will show you the best places to find Native health information on the Internet. You will learn how to search for and acquire journal articles to find the latest research being done on conditions affecting Native populations. You will also find out where to get reliable consumer level information on such topics as traditional healing, environmental health, urban Indian health, tribal and U.S. government health resources, and other general Native health topics. The hands-on class is 2 hours. (Clearinghouse record last modified on October 30th, 2008) - Title: From Snake Oil to Penicillin: Evaluating Consumer Health Information on the Internet
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/snakeoil/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Course Description: Distance Learning Course This interactive course will introduce participants to issues surrounding the quality of health information resources on the internet. Participants will be provided with a set of recommended criteria to be used to evaluate health information websites. Objectives: *Become familiar with unique issues surrounding health information on the internet. *Understand the nature of web-based resources and why people post information to the internet. *Evaluate health information web sites using a set of criteria provided so that you can determine whether or not the sites are trustworthy sources of health information. This is an online, asynchronous, instructor-led class using Moodle. Class size is limited, registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. (Clearinghouse record last modified on March 25th, 2008) - Title: Geeks Bearing Gifts: unwrapping new technology trends
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/geekgifts/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This class is intended to provide a fun, fast-paced, and informative introduction to and update on today's hottest technology trends. Program participants will be able to identify technology trends and they will understand how these trends will impact or can be integrated into traditional library services. Content will be presented in with a "can-do" focus intended to encourage participants to investigate at least one technology for implementation in their institution. Course structure will include brief vignettes and demonstrations of a wide variety of technologies. Some of the topics to be covered include instant messaging, podcasting, open source software, spyware and other malware, developments in mobile computing, blogs and wikis, radio-frequency identification, and more. The hands-on class is 4 MLA CE hours. (Clearinghouse record last modified on June 10th, 2006) - Title: Getting Started with Information Outreach in Minority Communities
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/minorities/
Languages: English
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This interactive class will provide a background in cultural competence and outreach skills to assist you as you make outreach efforts to underserved and minority populations in your community. (Clearinghouse record last modified on December 19th, 2008) - Title: Getting Started with LinkOut
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/linkout/
Languages: English
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This site contains information and materials for a 2-hour class, 4 hour class with hands-on designed to provide step-by-step direction on how to activate LinkOut for a library's print and electronic journal collections, so that users are able to view holdings and access full-text through the PubMed interface. The class is also availabe as an 3-hour (2.5 hour sessions with homework between sessions)ONLINE Class. Topics covered are registration for LinkOut, entering holdings, displaying a library's icon for branding purposes, and access to free full-text through LinkOut. (Clearinghouse record last modified on June 29th, 2007) - Title: Getting the Best Out of DOCLINE
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/docline/best_docline
Languages: English
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Attendees will learns how to use the features of DOCLINE effectively. Additional topics include DOCLINE upgrades, reports, Loansome Doc and EFTS. Awarded 3.0 hours of MLA CE credit (Clearinghouse record last modified on January 7th, 2009) - Title: Grant Writing
URL: http://www.mlanet.org/node/56
Languages: English
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Learn basic tips and techniques for writing and organizing your grant proposal. This workshop will focus on the components of successful grant proposals and offer an opportunity for participants to compose sample objectives, methodologies, and evaluation strategies. (Ruth Holst is the author and instructor of this workshop.) (Clearinghouse record last modified on September 24th, 2008) - Title: Grants and Proposal Writing
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/grants/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Designed for beginning grant proposal writers, this class presents a general overview of the grant and funding processes as well as the level of detail required in a successful proposal. Each component of the grant writing process will be addressed, including: documenting the need; identifying the target population; writing measurable objectives; developing a work plan, an evaluation plan and dissemination plan. (Clearinghouse record last modified on December 27th, 2006) - Title: Health Information for Kids and Teens and Seniors, Oh My!
URL: http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/243/index.html
Languages: English
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Whether it's reading a funny story about germs and hand washing to preschoolers or helping a senior citizen learn about an upcoming surgery, providing health information is a common and very important task for librarians. Much attention is given to topics such as best practices for the health reference interview, cultural sensitivity and health literacy. But what are best practices for serving users in different age groups? How do the needs of a teenager differ from a senior citizen? What are some ways to engage users through fun and interactive programs, regardless of age? This webinar will explore the health information needs and information seeking behaviors of kids, teens, boomers and seniors. You will discover some new resources and some tricks in getting to fantastic resources for different age groups using MedlinePlus. We will present resources for fun, interactive, quality health programming for all ages and also discuss strategies for partnering with a variety of organizations and schools in your community. Keep your users informed about their health, and have some fun along the way! (Clearinghouse record last modified on December 19th, 2008) - Title: Keeping Up with PubMed
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/keepingup/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: With a hands-on approach, this class will show attendees how to use the features of PubMed effectively. Attendees will be able to describe the contents of PubMed; formulate basic search strategies; display, print, and save results in various formats; revise and refine searches; and use special features such as Related Articles, Link to journals, Citation Matcher, and Clinical Queries. The instructor will demonstrate online searches and students, at computers connected to the Internet, will be invited to follow along. Time for individual practice will be provided. 4 MLA CEUs (Clearinghouse record last modified on August 10th, 2006) - Title: Looking in all the Wrong Places: PubMed for Public Librarians
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/pubmed/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Health Professionals
Description: This class covers basic searching; easy techniques for developing complex search strategies; PubMed's special features, such as Limits and the Clipboard; the Journals Database; the Single Citation Matcher; and MyNCBI. It also covers how to obtain full-text copies of articles.(3 MLA CE) (Clearinghouse record last modified on June 10th, 2006) - Title: Making PubMed Work for You
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/work/
Languages: English
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This 2.5 or 3.5 hour class for librarians is intended to hone basic searching techniques and the ability to develop search strategies that will take advantage of the PubMed interface to MEDLINE. The course will explore various methods for searching the PubMed system. Topics covered include Automatic Term Mapping, Search Results, Features Bar, Related Articles, My NCBI, Searching with MESH, Journal Database, and Single Citation Matcher. This course will provide an overview of the system and demonstrate utilizing the features of PubMed to search effectively. The 3.5-hour version of the course provides the attendees with hands-on opportunities to practice their search techniques. This course has been approved for 2.5 or 3.5 hours of Medical Library Association Continuing Education credits. (Clearinghouse record last modified on November 11th, 2008) - Title: Managing Electronic Resources in Health Science Libraries
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/managing_eresources/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This is a four-hour continuing education course intended for health science librarians. It is designed to introduce attendees to the technologies required to provide electronic resources in a health science library. Attendees will become familiar with basic electronic resources and their corresponding technologies, identify advanced technologies and future trends in health science libraries, and discuss planning for electronic resource provision. Also, attendees will learn methods for troubleshooting and resolving electronic resource problems and identify resources for learning more about electronic health information resources. (Clearinghouse record last modified on June 30th, 2006) - Title: Measuring Your Impact: Using Evaluation to Demonstrate Value
URL: http://nnlm.gov/evaluation/workshops/measuring_your_impact/
Languages: English
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Library users and stakeholders will recognize and value the importance of their library's services and of the librarian to the organization. That is the ultimate goal of this six-hour workshop. The outcome for the class is that librarians will be able to show the value of their library's services. Participants will become familiar with an evaluation process and will use and take away methods and tools for assessment, evaluation planning, creating logic models, data collection, data analysis and reporting. The workshop will feature group exercises that move participants through the steps of an evaluation process. There will also be student discussion and exercises in addition to lecture. (Clearinghouse record last modified on September 24th, 2008) - Title: NLM's Consumer Health Databases
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/nlm_databases/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Description: the National Library of Medicine has produced a number of databases designed for the general public. These databases range from health information to environmental conditions that impact health. This 4 hour hands-on course is designed to be an overview of these databases. These databases can also be taught as a single class, individual modules, or combined for specific needs. (Clearinghouse record last modified on June 30th, 2006) - Title: Patient Safety Resource Seminar: Librarians on the Front Lines
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/patientsafety/
Languages: English
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This interactive seminar focuses on ways both public and medical librarians can become more involved in patient safety processes and activities - both within their institutions and organizations and in providing patient safety resources for health professionals, for administration and staff, and for patients and families. Topics include understanding the definitions and issues of patient safety; locating where patient safety practices and contacts exist within an institution; identifying appropriate resources; and library advocacy in the area of patient safety. These four hours of lecture, discussion and brainstorming help librarians in all fields become effective agents for improving patient safety. (Clearinghouse record last modified on August 28th, 2008) - Title: Prescription for Success: Consumer Health Information on the Internet
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/prescription/
Languages: English
Audience: Information Professionals
Audience: Public
Description: This hands-on introductory class to consumer health information will cover the information-seeking behaviors of consumers, the basics of MedlinePlus.gov, DIRLINE, ClinicalTrials.gov and other reliable web pages such as those from professional medical associations and advocacy groups. It will cover sites devoted to pharmaceutical information for consumers, drug-interaction databases and herbal information. (Clearinghouse record last modified on July 30th, 2007) - Title: Public Health on the Web
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/publichealth/
Languages: English
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Public
Description: The field of public health encompasses a wide array of disciplines including health education, epidemiology and nursing. Digital literacy and the effective utilization of online information are among the core public health informatics competencies for the 21st century. This hands-on class will highlight web resources tailored to the public health workforce. (Clearinghouse record last modified on June 30th, 2006) - Title: PubMed Expert Searching Class and Sample Manual
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/PES_workbook.doc
Languages: English
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Expert searching includes more sophisticated use of PubMed tools such as field qualifiers, the preview/index feature, and creating links for a library web page. Greater knowledge of the Medline database and indexing vocabulary is also necessary in making expert search decisions. The class takes on a train the trainer focus to help participants translate these advanced searching techiniques to other users. The class builds upon the user's own knowledge of searching to use PubMed more effectively. (This is provided as a Microsoft Word document.) (Clearinghouse record last modified on September 24th, 2008) - Title: PubMed for Experts
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/pubmedexpert/
Languages: English
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Designed as an advanced class for experienced MEDLINE searchers. This hands-on class will highlight advanced PubMed techniques that can be used to conduct comprehensive searches. Attendees are encouraged to contribute past and present difficult searches to discuss with the class. (Clearinghouse record last modified on September 24th, 2008) - Title: Super Searcher
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/supersearcher/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: One half day hands-on course focusing on advanced search features of web search engines. The features of various search engines will be discussed and compared. (Clearinghouse record last modified on September 24th, 2008) - Title: The Healthy Librarian: Cultivating Wellness in the Workplace
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/workplacewellness/
Languages: English
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Learn simple strategies to cultivate wellness in the workplace at your library. Participants will learn skills to manage challenges of the job. This interactive session will explore practical solutions including stress management skills, ergonomics and how to incorporate more activity into your day. Resources for improving one’s health literacy including health check tools and developing resiliency for changes in the profession will be explored. Participants will leave with enhanced knowledge and practical skills for incorporating healthy habits into their daily work. (Clearinghouse record last modified on January 13th, 2009) - Title: TOXNET: Toxicology and Environmental Information
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/toxnet/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Health Professionals
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This in an introductory class on the TOXNET databases for inexperienced users. Participants will learn about the different databases available on TOXNET and what type of information is available in each database. (Clearinghouse record last modified on June 30th, 2006) - Title: Website Usability: Making Content Easy to Find
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/usability/
Languages: English
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Usability rules the web. If a patron can't navigate your website, then he or she will not use your library to find information. The rest of the Internet is only a mouse click away. Participants in this four hour workshop will learn how to conduct usability studies without expensive consultants, how to create accessible web pages, and how to apply design simplicity to their websites. Workshop topics include integration of diverse resources, library websites as components of institutional websites, and Internet vs. intranet design. (Clearinghouse record last modified on June 10th, 2006) - Title: Will Duct Tape Cure My Warts? Examining Complementary and Alternative Medicine
URL: http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/cam/
Languages: English
Audience: Public
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: The goal of this class is to increase understanding of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Students will learn the history of CAM and its impact on medical practices. They will learn how CAM is used, how to avoid bad science and how to look up evidence of the effectiveness of CAM therapies. This class is offered for 2 hours or 4 hours. Both classes will include lecture, discussion, and hands-on training. (Clearinghouse record last modified on May 31st, 2007)
