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…
Category: Continuing Education
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…
MLA 2015 Webinar Series
The Medical Library Association is sponsoring a series of webinars that will take place over the second half of 2015. Two of them will be held in August, while the remaining four will take place between October and December. (The dates and times for the last four webinars have not yet been determined.) The National…
ALA Conference Sessions of Interest to HSLI Members, Part II
Additional sessions (held between Saturday afternoon and Monday) at ALA that might be of interest to HSLI members are listed below. Sessions that are starred are being presented by current or former HSLI members. For more information on a particular session, click on the title. Saturday, June 27 (afternoon) 12:30 – 2:00 PM “Mapping Buried…
ALA Conference Sessions of Interest to HSLI Members, Part I
The following sessions at this year’s ALA conference might be of interest to HSLI members who are attending. (Sessions being given by current or past members of HSLI are starred.) For more information on a particular session, click the title. The list below includes sessions through Saturday morning. I will post a list of the…