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.
This online course is intended for faith community nurses and health ministers. It will introduce concepts about the importance of being familiar with web-based health information, provide an overview of reputable web sites, and illustrate how to evaluate web-based health information for quality
Looking for the latest developments in patient care but finding too much, too little or inadequate information? This online course is for nurses, nursing students and faculty, and librarians interested in information services for Nursing and Allied Health professions. Participants will learn to use and evaluate web based health information resources for professionals and consumers, including online news services and continuing education opportunities. Participants will also learn to search the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database of over 18 million citations using the PubMed interface and become familiar with MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer health information. This is an online, asynchronous, instructor-led class using Moodle.
This class covers resources for learning basic, library, medical, and Internet Spanish vocabulary. Participants will also learn to identify and evaluate health websites in Spanish in order to better serve a growing population of Spanish speakers.
Thinking about how to promote your services and reach out to more people? Want to learn how podcasts can help and how to make your own? This hands-on class is designed to provide a fun yet informative introduction to podcasting and how you can utilize this technology in your library services, to enable your users to access the information whenever they want, wherever they want and however they want it. Basic steps and suggestions on how to make a podcast will be covered and students will be able to enjoy hands-on practice on popular audio recording and editing software and make their first personal podcast!
Class Descriptions:
Participants will learn strategies on: how to work and communicate in a language that vendors understand; how to make sure you are being understood; and learn the fundamentals of getting the best contract for your institution that also meets the needs of the vendor. There will be opportunities for participants to prioritize issues, practice being assertive, and discuss strategic outcomes to various scenarios.
Time commitment:
Each class has a two hour commitment of class work and one hour of homework.
Location:
The classes will meet live online via Adobe Connect in two one hour sessions. Session one will focus on resources to help librarians work and communicate with vendors. Participants will also be introduced to resources for negotiating contracts and identifying contract terms important to libraries. Session two will consist of participant presentations and wrap-up. Classmates will be partnered together and given our weeks to prepare their solution to a scenarios they will then present to the class at the second session. The class takes approximately four weeks from start to finish.
Class Schedule:
Class 1
Session 1: January 29, 2009 3pm-4pm Mountain Time/4pm-5pm Central Time
Session 2: February 26, 2009 3pm-4pm Mountain Time/4pm-5pm Central Time
Class 2
Session 1: February 26, 2009 2pm-3pm Mountain Time/3pm-4pm Central Time
Session 2: March 26, 2009 2pm-3pm Mountain Time/3pm-4pm Central Time
Class 3
March 29, 2009 3pm-4pm Mountain Time/4pm-5pm Central Time
April 30, 2009 3pm-4pm Mountain Time/4pm-5pm Central Time
Class 4
April 30, 2009 2pm-3pm Mountain Time/3pm-4pm Central Time
May 28, 2009 2pm-3pm Mountain Time/3pm-4pm Central Time
Service Continuity Planning. An emergency can be as wide-scale as a hurricane 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? Learn (and share) strategies during this class. Javier Crespo and Penny Glassman we will present a simple, relatively quick, approach to creating a service continuity plan based on the work done by Dan Wilson is Associate Director for Collection Management and Access Services at University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.
This course examines business processeses that may be brought into the library and includes Project Management, Time, Money, Resources and Change Management.
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Common technical support issues for the NN/LM Moodle
by Admin User - Monday, 17 November 2008, 12:15 PM
A common issue involves lost passwords. Each Moodle account has a unique UserName (the "nickname" you use when you log into the Moodle) which is tied to a unique e-mail address. That is necessary so the system can send you a new password when you need one. If you create a second account for yourself, you will be required to set it up with a different e-mail address than your first account. Sometimes there are good reasons to create a second account, but for most users, one account is probably best. Don't create a second account, for example, just to avoid dealing with a forgotten password. The system can help you create a new password by sending information to your registered e-mail address. If that fails for some reason, contact your instructor for help. The Moodle administrators will try to help you and your instructor to fix your account so that you can continue to use it for all your normal Moodle purposes, with the e-mail address of your choice.
Sometimes people forget the UserName they created in the NN/LM Moodle. We can recover this information for you. Rather than create a new account, just ask your instructor for help.
A few people have had trouble staying logged into the NN/LM Moodle. Here are some tips from two people who found solutions:
I'm in now. This was a pop-up blocker problem.
For some reason, the computer was not logging me out of the class and every time I went back in, it took me to a screen shot of the original. By going under tools on the top bar, choosing internet options at the bottom of the list, deleting the cookies and files under temporary internet and clearing the history, I got rid of whatever was happening. As soon as I hit refresh I got the whole course! Maybe other people could fix their problems the same way.
