The Medical Library Association is offering a webinar on the concept of data visualization and the ways in which libraries can provide data-visualization services to their users. Keeping abreast of changes related to data visualization is crucial for librarians, as it is currently one of the most effective ways to display large amounts of information…
Category: Continuing Education
Webinar on Library Promotion of Public-Health Literacy
WebJunction will be hosting the free webinar “Public Health and Public Libraries: Librarians as Health Literacy First Responders”. It will take place on Wednesday, October 21, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM CST. Although the webinar is aimed at public libraries, much of the information covered will likely prove useful to librarians working in academic…
Registration Still Open for Symposium on Health Care Reform
Update (September 29, 2015): Please note that the symposium below, which took place in March, is NOT being repeated on Wednesday, September 30. Rather, tomorrow is the last day that one may view the webinar and still receive CE credit. After that date, the recording of the webinar will be available, but one will not earn…
October 19 Workshop on Health Literacy
The Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy (at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) will be hosting an all-day meeting on health literacy this October. The event, titled “Integrating Health Literacy, Cultural, Competency, and Language Access Services”, will take place from 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM CST on Monday, October 19, and…
Registration for “A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI” Bioinformatics Course
Registration is open for the next offering of the “A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI” course in bioinformatics. The class, which is sponsored in part by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), trains participants in the use of online molecular databases and other resources from the NCBI. The course is intended for librarians whose area…
“PubMed for Librarians” Training
This December, the National Library of Medicine Training Center will be offering a five-part PubMed for Librarians series. There will be one session per day, from Monday, December 7, to Friday, December 11. Viewers may sign up for all five sessions or just particular ones. (Registering for all of the sessions requires signing up for each one…
Webinar on Implementing WorldShare Management Services
OCLC is sponsoring a webinar on one medical library’s experience with implementing WorldShare Management Services. The webinar, titled “Improving Visibility While Simplifying Processes in a Medical Center Library”, will take place on Thursday, August 20, from 1:00 to 1:30 PM CST. The presentation will focus on H.M. Fishbon Memorial Library, at the University of California,…
“PubMed for Trainers” Waitlist Still Open
The waitlist for the “PubMed for Trainers” course is still open. The course is intended for those who currently train, or plan to train, others in using PubMed. In addition to PubMed, MEDLINE will be covered, as will Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). The course will consist of four sessions, with the first three (September 3,…
“Consumers and Evidence Based Practice” Webinar on August 12
(via Holly Ann Burt) The University of Illinois at Chicago will be hosting the MLA webinar “Consumers and Evidence-Based Practice: Understanding the Evidence Behind the Headlines” on Wednesday, August 12. (UIC was one of the locations chosen to host one of two MLA webinars this month.) The session will last from 1:00 to 2:30 PM and will…
Upcoming NN/LM – GMR Webinars
This is a reminder that the National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region has several webinars coming up in its “Lake Effects” series, which is held on the third Thursday of each month, at 1:00 PM CDT. Sessions cover current topics of interest, such as consumer health, in addition to databases and…