NNLM SEA Digest News – December 11, 2020

Posted by elizabethwaltman on December 11th, 2020 Posted in: All Posts, SEA Digest

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Welcome to the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), Southeastern/Atlantic (SEA) Region’s Weekly Digest. This digest includes upcoming events, online training opportunities, news, and past events.  

NNLM News

• Deadline Extended: NNLM SEA 2020-2021 Funded Project Awards
• Announcing the NNLM PSR BIPOC LIS Student Professional Development Award!
• Explore Inherited Diseases with the NNLM Reading Club
• Free Printable Posters and Resources Related to COVID-19 for Libraries and their Patrons

Upcoming Online Training Opportunities*

Moodle LMS Asynchronous Course Opportunities

• Beyond the Binary: Health Resources for Sexual and Gender Minorities (Jan 4 – Feb 1)
• Building Reference Skills for Nursing and Allied Health Research (Feb 8 – Feb 26)

Webinars December 15 – December 17

• How to “Speak Data”: Librarians as Public Data Ambassadors (Dec 15, 2 PM ET)
• The evolution of public health: Tackling tough questions and messy stuff (Dec 15, 4 PM ET)
• Citizen Science & Libraries: Help Develop RNA-based Medicines Online (Dec 16, 2 PM ET)
• Food for Thought: Exploring Nutrition Information Resources (Dec 17, 3 PM ET)

Webinars December 18 – January 13

• Evaluation Pathways: 5 Steps to Evaluation (Dec 18, 2 PM ET)
• Yoga as an Act of Self-care for Librarians (Jan 7, 2 PM ET)
• Evaluation Pathways: K-12 Health (Jan 8, 2 PM ET)
• Scholarly Communication in Academic Libraries: An ever changing landscape of responsibilities (Jan 13, 11 AM ET)

Visit the NNLM Training Schedule for all upcoming webinars, scheduled, and on-demand classes. For past webinars and classes, please visit the NNLM on YouTube**

National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM), and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) News

NIH News

• The NIH Director’s Blog: All of Us: Partnering Together for the Future of Precision Medicine
• Some postmenopausal women with common breast cancer may forgo chemotherapy
• High-dose influenza vaccine shows no additional benefit for heart disease patients
• NIH announces restructured HIV clinical trials networks

NLM News

• Musings from the Mezzanine: 10 Tips After 10 Months of Video Calls
• Circulating Now: Education in the Eighties: Preserving HIV/AIDS Audiovisuals 
• NLM Technical Bulletin: MedlinePlus Social Media Toolkit Available

NCBI Insights

• NCBI Virus: Test drive our new SARS-CoV-2 interactive data dashboard!
• Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT) is available for use and testing
• New Columns added to the web BLAST Descriptions Table
• Customize columns in NCBI’s Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer

NNLM SEA Communications

• Online Newsletter: SEA Currents
• Facebook
• Facebook SEA Consumer Health Group
• Twitter

* Notes on NNLM Training Opportunities

• All sessions listed are sponsored by a specific regional or national office, but open to all.
• Webinars are scheduled for 1 hour unless otherwise noted.
• The NNLM class registration system requires a free NNLM account prior to registration.
• Visit the NNLM Training Opportunities to register and view a full calendar of training opportunities.
• Please visit the NNLM Acronym Guide to understand the acronyms.
• Refer to this guide to claim MLA CE credit.
• Not all Training Opportunities listed provide MLA CE credit. Please refer to the class page to see if a specific session offers credit.

** Please note that NNLM recordings on YouTube may not have MLA CE Credit available. Please contact the regional office that sponsored the webinar for details.