Classes Offered by NN/LM MAR Staff
- Online Classes
- In-Person Classes
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Clever Evaluation
Evaluating programs and projects is a lot like exercising: most of us know it’s very important and we plan to start doing it as soon as we have time. Cindy Olney, evaluation specialist for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Outreach Evaluation Resource Center (OERC), will present a 90-minute session on evaluation methods that are quick, resourceful, and useful. Her strategies include using existing data, combining evaluation with other project activities, and enlisting the help of others in data collection. Cindy Olney has been an evaluation specialist since 1991 and has worked with the OERC since 2004. She specializes in planning and evaluation of health information outreach and public health projects. -
Consumer Health Information at the Public Library
Public librarians, do you receive health information requests at the reference desk? Do you want to plan programming on health topics? Learn about National Library of Medicine’s free, authoritative consumer health web sites like MedlinePlus and NIH Senior Health. -
Consumer Health Funding for Public Libraries
The hour-long online course will provide an overview of funding available from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and National Library of Medicine. The class will review the existing awards from the NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region, review how awards are created and eligibility in applying for the awards. The class will also discuss options for public libraries to supplement awards with training, promotional items and other assistance from NN/LM MAR staff.
Class Presentation available in PowerPoint -
Copyright and ILL
Guidelines? Law? CONTU? This course will give a basic introduction to copyright including the exclusive rights of copyright holders, copyright duration, and fair use. Learn how copyright affects ILL and how librarians can better balance ILL service needs with copyright law. You will also gain an understanding of the features in DOCLINE that address copyright law.
Class Presentation is available in PDF - Creative Commons: What Is It?
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: The digital age has caused a plethora of problems concerning copyright. Along comes the concept of Creative Commons to help define the rights of creators, users, and consumers. What is it and how is it used? Take this one hour online class and learn more!
See also our Creative Commons Resources page
The class presentation is available in PDF
- DOCLINE for Beginners
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: The title says it all! If you are new to DOCLINE, this one-hour class will provide an overview.
- DOCLINE: Reports, Routing Tables and More
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This one hour class will cover some of the more specialized topics in Docline, including the reporting features and routing tables. Registrants are welcome to submit their “problem questions” to be answered during the course.
- DOCLINE SERHOLD: Searching, Updating, and Reporting
This course will focus on the SERHOLD feature of DOCLINE. Attendees will learn how to add new titles and formats to their library’s record, search SERHOLD for other library’s holdings, and utilize the SERHOLD reporting functions to make the most of this unique tool in DOCLINE.
The class presentation is available in PDF.
- DOCLINE Tune-Up
This quick and informal session will highlight ten things you can do this summer to help improve your DOCLINE account. Quickly review your routing table, run a SERHOLD report, update your institution record, and more. These quick tips will highlight the minor maintenance issues that can help DOCLINE work better for you.
The class presentation is available in PDF.
- Getting Started with LinkOut
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This hands-on class is 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. Topics covered are registration for LinkOut, entering holdings, displaying a library's icon for branding purposes, and access to free full-text through LinkOut. (2 or 4 MLA CE)
- Introduction to RML Services
What can the RML do for you? This one-hour introduction will help new and existing members answer that question and more. Attendees will learn about free promotional materials, funding opportunities, and training sessions. Special focus will be paid to the NNLM MAR Website so that users can learn to find what they need when they need it.
- Introduction to TOXNET
Learn how to find information on chemicals, toxic releases, toxicology literature, and toxicology data files with NLM’s TOXNET set of databases. TOXNET is a rich resource for environmental health, toxicology, and chemical hazards.
- LinkOut
This hands-on class is 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. Topics covered are registration for LinkOut, entering holdings, displaying a library's icon for branding purposes, and access to free full-text through LinkOut. MLA CE credits available.
- NIH Public Access Policy
This class will review the current NIH Public Access policy, including definitions of public and open access, submission requirements, who it applies to and example copyright language to use between an author or institution and a publisher. The class will also demonstrate how one library - the New York University Dental Library - is implementing the policy at its institution.
Class Presentation is available in Powepoint.
- NN/LM Funding Opportunities: An Overview
Audience: Information Professionals, Public
Description: The hour-long online course will provide an overview of both National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and National Library of Medicine grants, and a brief discussion of other funding opportunities. The class will review needs assessments, goals and objectives, methodology, creating a budget, and evaluation. At the end of the class, participants will be able to identify three methods of conducting a needs assessment, clearly state program goals and objectives, and list program evaluations.
NN/LM Funding: An Overview
- Productivity Tools
Library’s budgets are always pinched for one thing or another. Did you know that there are a multitude of free software packages out there that do just about everything that commercial software packages can do? In this one hour class we’ll take a look at some of these software packages, their usefulness, their limitations and things to think about if you decide to go the free software route.
Productivity tools resource page
- PubMed MyNCBI
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This class is presented in two parts. You may attend either session or both.
Part I. Learn how to customize your PubMed experience using MyNCBI (formerly Cubby). Save your favorite citations, and keep current with automatic searches—the results will come straight to your inbox. Change the look of PubMed with custom tabs and highlighted search terms.
Part II. Create shared filters for your library users’ using MYNCBI. Shared filters allow you to activate LinkOut icons, specify display formats, and limit search results. Shared Filters are an important feature for any library that participates in NCBI's LinkOut program.
- What's New in PubMed
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This hour-long class will review new and noteworthy features in PubMed that are of interest to current PubMed users. This class is offered as an update and is not an introduction to PubMed. - Introducing Health Professionals to NLM's Online Systems (CME)
Audience: Health Professionals
Description: The links found on this page include activities that have been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas & Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of NIH/FAES and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine's RML Libraries. A user will find on this site links to: Letter to Instructors, Objectives, Evaluations, Certificates, Legal Documents, as well as links to the courses with CME accreditation for physicians.
- Keeping Up with PubMed
Audience: Information Professionals, Health 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 CE)
- Making PubMed Work for You
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This class 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.
(2.5 or 3.5 MLA CE)
- Nursing on the Net: Health Care Resources You Can Use
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Looking for the latest developments in patient care but finding too much, too little or inadequate information? This hands-on workshop is designed for librarians responsible for information services to the Nursing and Allied Health professions. Participants will learn to use and evaluate web based health information resources, find online news services, continuing online education courses, and consumer health web sites. Participants will also learn to search the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database of over 16 million citations using the PubMed interface. The workshop will also cover MedlinePlus the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer health information.
(4 MLA CE)
- Patient Safety Resource Seminar: Librarians on the Front Lines
Audience: Health Professionals, Information Professionals
Description: This interactive seminar focuses on ways medical librarians can become more involved in the patient safety processes and activities within their institutions and organizations. Topics include understanding the issues of patient safety; locating where patient safety practices exist within the institution; and identifying patient safety resources for health professionals, for administration and staff, and for patients and families. Focused for hospital librarians, but accessible for all librarians, these four hours of lecture, discussion and brainstorming help librarians become effective agents for improving patient safety.
(2.5 or 4 MLA CE)
- Public Health Information on the Web
Audience: Health Professionals
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.
(4 MLA CE)
- PubMed for Experts
Audience: Health Professionals, 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.
(3 MLA CE)
- DOCLINE Explained
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Designed as an introductory class on the DOCLINE system for new or inexperienced users on the current DOCLINE system.
(3 MLA CE)
- Getting Started with LinkOut
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This hands-on class is 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. Topics covered are registration for LinkOut, entering holdings, displaying a library's icon for branding purposes, and access to free full-text through LinkOut.
(2 or 4 MLA CE)
- ABCs of DNA: Unraveling the Mystery of Genetics Information for Consumers
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.
(4 MLA CE)
- African American Community Health
Audience: Information Professionals
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.
- Beyond an Apple a Day: Providing Consumer Health Information at Your Library
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This 4-hour hands-on class will cover the information seeking behaviors of consumers. It will also address the recommended core reference collection, as well as databases and newsletters/ periodicals. It will cover the reference interview, disclaimers, and privacy as well as networking with medical librarians. The class will introduce the students to the Medical Library Association and its local chapters. It will describe possible ways to market this service in a community.
(4 MLA CE)
- Caring for the Mind: Providing Reference Services for Mental Health Information
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. Participants will: 1. Gain awareness of mental health issues. 2. Learn best approaches to consumer health reference interviews about mental health information. 3. Be informed of tools for collection development and mental health research including the latest web sites and databases.
(1,2,3 or 4 MLA CE)
- Finding Native Health Info Online
Audience: Health Professionals, Information Professionals
Description: Whether you are a community health care worker, a librarian, or just want to be informed, this two-hour 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.
- From Snake Oil to Penicillin: Evaluating Consumer Health Information on the Internet
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This hands-on course will describe why it is important to evaluate websites. Participants will be given criteria for how to evaluate health information on the Internet.
(3 MLA CE)
- NLM's Consumer Health Databases
Audience: Information Professionals
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 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.
(4 MLA CE)
- ¿No Comprende? Spanish Health Information Resources for English Speaking Librarians
Audience: Health Professionals, Information Professionals
Description: Do you have a growing Latino population in your community? Do you need to find health information in Spanish fast but don’t know where to look? Are the only words in your Spanish vocabulary burrito and gracias? If you answered yes to these questions, then this is the class for you. 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.
(4 MLA CE)
- Prescription for Success: Consumer Health Information on the Internet
Audience: Information Professionals
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.
(3 MLA CE)
- PubMed for the Rest of Us
Audience: Information Professionals (especially public librarians)
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)
- TOXNET: Toxicology and Environmental Information
Audience: Information Professionals, Health 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.
(3 MLA CE)
- Will Duct Tape Cure My Warts?: Examining Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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.
(2 or 4 MLA CE)
- Geeks Bearing Gifts: Unwrapping New Technology Trends
Audience: Health Professionals, 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 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.
(4 MLA CE)
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