Class Catalog

NLM Office Hours are an opportunity for people who use NLM products to interact with NLM staff. Each office hours session will begin with a brief product demonstration or news item, and the remainder of the session will be devoted to answering your questions.

Join NNLM's All of Us Community Engagement Network as they host speakers on a variety of topics. Sessions feature guest speakers.

NNLM Book Discussion offers librarians, health professionals, and public health workers interested in better understanding health issues faced by their communities an opportunity to explore topics with other professionals and earn Continuing Education Credit.

Participants can complete the book and earn CE credit on their schedule. A new book is selected each quarter. Participants can acquire the book in their preferred format and have 3 months to complete the requirements and earn 4 MLA CE by participating in either an online or live discussion

The NNLM Carpentries Workshop Series will offer several workshops covering different topics.

The target audience is learners who have little to no prior computational experience, and the instructors put a priority on creating a friendly environment to empower learners and enable data-driven discovery. Even those with some experience will benefit, as the goal is to teach not only how to do analyses, but how to manage the process to make it as automated and reproducible as possible.

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Workshops have live captioning.

Please join NNLM Regions, Offices and Centers (ROCs) on May 11, 2023 as they highlight their activities from the past year and share upcoming activities programs that NNLM members can look forward to in the coming year. 

Recordings are available under 'previous classes' tab for select ROCs. View recording of national update (May 11, 2023) from NLM Headquarters.

This webinar series supports the provision of information to institutions and communities, public access to biomedical literature and research results and access to information in disaster situations. 

Each webinar will focus on a different topic with a guest speaker.

Thinking of applying for NNLM Region 1 funding for projects? This timely series will answer your questions and help you get started.

Part 1 - Ready? Funding lingo; Basic info on 2023-2024 grants from Region 1; How to deconstruct a CFA/RFA/RFP; Q&A

The NNLM Region 6 Speaker Series is an intermittent webinar series hosted by NNLM Region 6. It showcases guest speakers who address various topics relevant to our members, including librarians, public health practitioners, educators, clinicians, and other healthcare information professionals. Our selection of topics is influenced by audience preferences and requests, trends, seasonal relevance, and speaker availability, ensuring a dynamic and engaging experience for all participants.

The webinar will provide a brief introduction to data science topics and terminologies. Topics will include AI in healthcare, explaining what natural language processing is, and discussing HIPAA privacy requirements and defining PII. This first part will be brief and focus on providing a foundational understanding. The second and bulk of the class will focus on the NLM Scrubber and CliniDeID as examples of NLP models that can be used for clinical deidentification.  The class will cover how to promote these tools at the librarians' institution.

The PNC-MLA Health Equity and Diversity Speaker Series is a collaboration between NNLM Region 5 and Pacific Northwest Chapter/Medical Library Association (PNC-MLA) through the efforts of its Diversity Committee.

This series features expert guest speakers presenting on topics pertaining to health equity and diversity.

The PNC-MLA Health Equity and Diversity Speaker Series will be scheduled intermittently; please check the NNLM Regional Classes training schedule for upcoming webinar sessions.

What are preprints, and how are they changing how biomedical research results are shared?

Should you use information from preprints? Should you share your own research results in a preprint? This course from the National Library of Medicine® explains the basics of preprints, and explores the benefits and considerations of using and submitting preprints.

This 1 credit hour on-demand course will cover differences between prescription and over the counter medications, data regarding use in the United States, and three free resources from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health: the NIDA website, DailyMed and LactMed.  The course includes a recorded presentation, demos of the resources, and guided exercises to try the resources hands-on. 

This 1-hour webinar will discuss how to effectively respond to requests for mental health information at your library.

This presentation addresses increasing health information access and use, along with increasing health equity through information by highlighting resources from the National Library of Medicine and other government health information resources for patients, their families and friends.

This webinar addresses increasing health information access and use, along with increasing health equity through information by highlighting information from National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus health information resource for patients and their families and friends, resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health and other freely available resources.

This self-paced PubChem tutorial guides you through how to access chemical property and structure data that hundreds of academic, government and industrial sources contribute to PubChem.  It includes step-by-step directions for how to find chemical information using chemical names, identifiers, molecular formulas, gene symbols, proteins, pathways, taxonomies, and structures. It also shows you how to use the rich connections between PubChem and other resources (like PubMed) to explore chemical information further, and how to download chemistry data from PubChem.

This webinar series is currently inactive, but you can view recordings of previous webinars on the Public Health Webinar Series NNLM Channel YouTube Playlist.

If you’re new to PubMed or just want a refresher this online class is designed for you. The class is made up of 10 short units that include videos, exercises and quizzes. The class gives you the chance to explore PubMed at your own pace with guided tours and exercises. This class takes about 1 hour to complete. 

R4 Connections is a bi-monthly webinar featuring topics of interest for NNLM Region 4 members and beyond.

View previously recorded webinars, materials, and evaluation links for classes that qualify for the Medical Library Association's Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) certificate program. Following the completion of each webinar, an evaluation becomes available with directions to obtain CE credit.