(via Ramune Kubilius, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center at Northwestern University)
The ACRL Health Science Interest Group’s next First Friday Forum is scheduled online for Friday, October 4, from 12:00 to 1:30 PM CDT. The topic is “A health sciences librarian’s introduction to the NIH: How the NIH affects your faculty”, and the presenter is Mx. Nina Exner, PhD, MLS, AHIP, who is Research Data Librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. You do not have to be a member of ACRL to join us!
Health sciences faculty who do research, and their administrators, often talk about the National Institutes of Health or NIH. While the NIH may be a familiar name from the news, it can be hard to understand what that NIH has to do with our campus health sciences faculty. Libraries also talk about the NIH and NIH policy, such as the NIH data policy or NIH public access policy. But what is it about the NIH that affects our faculty? Why do all these researchers care about the NIH?
In this HSIG forum presentation, attendees will be introduced to the basics of the NIH. The presentation will focus on how the NIH affects researchers at institutions outside of the NIH, through extramural funding programs. The presentation will introduce general terminology used by faculty who seek to be funded by the NIH, in order to empower health sciences librarians to understand faculty and administration discussions of NIH funding. After discussing NIH funding, the presentation will transition to the basics of some current NIH policies that involve archival or bibliographic systems, and therefore sometimes involve librarians in campus support for those NIH policies. This presentation will name some NIH policies that involve bibliographic systems, data preservation, or other health sciences information.
This will not be an in-depth review of any policies; instead the presentation will give context for why and how these NIH policies affect campus faculty. Attendees will gain familiarity with some general federal funding terms as well as NIH-specific terminology and processes. As a result, attendees should have better context for conversations with faculty about supporting NIH policies.
By the end of this session attendees will be able to…
(1) define what NIH stands for, including naming at least three NIH Institutes
(2) explain the basics of how NIH funding impacts faculty research planning in the health sciences
(3) name two NIH policies that often involve libraries
Please register here. We will record the presentation portion, which we estimate will take up the first hour, and turn the recording off for discussion.
After the Forum, the recording and slides will be posted on the ACRL HSIG research guide and sent out to all registrants.
Questions? Please e-mail jules.bailey@fsu.edu.