"Connecting with the
NER"
A Distance Education Series
Stay up to date professionally without leaving your desk! The National Network of Libraries of Medicine/ New England Region brings you a new distance education series. This ongoing series will feature hot topics in health sciences librarianship and highlight major updates to National Library of Medicine resources.
To register, please contact Martha Pearson at martha.pearson@umassmed.edu and let her know which session you want to attend. Details of how to access the web conference and Adobe Connect session will be forwarded upon registration. Information on how to test your computer for Adobe Connect is available under Connect Diagnostics.
Programs Include
Emergency Preparedness Planning: Ten Steps to Continuity Planning
Javier Crespo and Penny Glassman
Adobe Connect Sessions:Session 1: January 27th
Session 2: February 11th
Session 3: Feb 24th
Session 4: March 4th
Sessions will start at 2:00p.m. and may last until 3:30
Through the course we will assist NER members in developing their own plans for handling emergencies. The course is designed to meet via Adobe Connect sessions–many of you have already participated in our other Connecting with the NER sessions. The course will follow a 10-Step Process to Service Continuity Planning developed by the NN/LM National Coordinator. To provide an opportunity for librarians to work together, the class will also use the Moodle online learning platform as a collaborative virtual space for working through exercises and Steps that will serve to help build your own Service Continuity Plan
Additional Information available on the NER Blog at: http://nnlm.gov/ner/blog/2009/01/21/service-continuity-class/
Maintaining your DOCLINE Routing Table
Mark Goldstein
Date: January 28, 2009
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
To give DOCLINE participants a chance to receive a quick review on how to maintain their routing table, as well as share in the benefit of the Q&A format.
Additional information is on the NER Blog at: http://nnlm.gov/ner/blog/2009/01/14/connecting-with-the-ner-series-maintaining-your-docline-routing-table/
Public Health Online Resources - Virtual Tour of PHPartners.org
Hathy Simpson
Date: February 3, 2009
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
This session will provide an overview of public health information resources available from the public health web portal, PHPartners.org
Additional information is on the NER Blog at: http://nnlm.gov/ner/blog/2009/01/08/public-health-online-resources-virtual-tour/
Health Information Outreach and Community Engagement: Lessons Learned from the Experts
Michelle Eberle
Date: February 12, 2009
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Engaging your community with health information outreach projects is rewarding, meaningful work. Come learn from the experiences of experts in health information outreach and community engagement. Each speaker has led a successful health information outreach subcontract from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine/ New England Region. The program is intended for anyone interested in pursuing funding or interested in learning more about how to engage the local community in effective health information outreach.
Additional information is on the NER Blog at: http://nnlm.gov/ner/blog/2009/01/21/free-online-learning-opportunity/
Connect Diagnostic
Use this link to verify that your personal computer can connect to Adobe Connect in advance of a session. This will give you time to address any problems. The link will determine whether connection speed is sufficient, network access is allowed, flash player is installed, etc.
Here is the link: http://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm
Update Flash Player
If the diagnostic reveals that Flash needs to be updated or installed, that can be done here: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe
Firewall Settings
If there are remaining issues, IS depts can check that the following ports are open on their firewalls (these are required by Connect):
port 443port 1935
For more information, firewall administrators can see this article by Adobe (note: Connect used to be called Breeze)....
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=f83a452b&sliceId=1