NNLM Training

This 3 week, online class is designed for library staff who support, or want to support, nursing and allied health professionals. It provides an introduction to the professions of nursing and allied health and NLM databases used by health professionals. The class concludes with developing your own plan on how to use this information in your own work.  

• Class Dates: April 4 - 22, 2022. 
• Registration limited to 50 participants.
• 4 MLA Credit hours 

Class information & register on NNLM.gov (new window)

You’re a library worker. You’re already helping those in your community find health information. As a library worker, what are you doing to manage your own well-being? Individual and community well-being are inherently connected. Thus, it is critical that workplaces be an area of wellness for their employees. Join us to discover ways to improve your own personal well-being and create a healthy workplace.  If you are a supervisor, how are you helping to ensure your staff stays healthy (physically, emotionally, etc.)? We will also discuss ways to increase overall wellness for all staff in libraries so that we have happy, healthy, and safe work environments.

In this 2-week, 4-CE class participants will explore the aspects of a healthy workplace including physical, mental, and emotional components. During the first week, we will look at the evidence on the benefits of having a healthy working environment that matters to you, to the library, and to your community. We will discuss what does and does not make a healthy working environment. During the second week, participants will learn about and explore changes they can make at an individual level to improve workplace health and wellness. We will also discuss changes that could and should be made at the team and organizational levels to improve workplace health and wellness for everyone.

This course is asynchronous, there are no set hours to be online each week. 

Click here to register for the Jan 10 - 23, 2022 class. (new window)  

This self-paced course describes how librarians and other information professionals can facilitate data standardization and research data sharing using Common Data Elements.

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Learn how terminology standards make patient educational materials accessible through electronic health record systems, health apps, and other systems via MedlinePlus Connect (new window) .

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Original creation date: April 26, 2019. 

Updated August 25, 2021 | nto@utah.edu

Learn how to conduct a health reference interview using ethical and effective communication strategies in this 4 credit/4 module asynchronous online class. Through interactive, self-paced tutorials, discussion forums, and a synthesis exercise, users will learn:

• What is a health reference interview
• How the library can protect patrons’ health privacy and confidentiality using ethical guidelines from library associations
• Effective communication strategies to identify the health information needs of patrons
• Simple methods for evaluating online health information that can be easily explained to patrons

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Original creation date: February 3, 2020. 

Updated August 25, 2021 | nto@utah.edu

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 one-hour online, self-paced course from the National Library of Medicine® for researchers, librarians and others explains the basics of preprints, and explores the benefits and considerations of using and submitting preprints.

What is open science, and how does it differ from data science, and research data management? How can library staff support data science in their own work? This introductory, four-hour on-demand course introduces the concepts of open science, data science and research data management through readings, tutorials and videos. After taking this course, you will be able to describe the differences between research data management (RDM), data science, and open science, articulate how open science supports research integrity and reproducibility, and list ways librarian staff can support data science.

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How do you keep data secure and preserved? This introductory, four-hour, on-demand course uses readings, tutorials, videos, and hands-on scenarios to show how to evaluate preservation needs of a dataset, i dentify appropriate data repositories for a given dataset, examine security/privacy issues with data, and explain how data policies affect data ownership, security, and storage. 

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Where librarians and NCBI scientists meet to talk sequence data, structures, and other biology fun. Graduates of the NNLM courses "Librarian's Guide to NCBI" and "Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials for Librarians" are invited to this group.

Private space for members of the NNLM Region 6 Indiana State Advisory Group.

Contact Region 6 staff via email at Region6-RML@uiowa.edu for more information.

Created January 7, 2022.

Private space for members of the NNLM Region 6 Michigan State Advisory Group.

Contact Region 6 staff via email at Region6-RML@uiowa.edu for more information.

Created January 7, 2022.

Private space for members of the NNLM Region 6 Ohio State Advisory Group.

Contact Region 6 staff via email at Region6-RML@uiowa.edu for more information.

Created January 7, 2022.

This workshop is led by ClinicalTrials.gov staff and provides training to key personnel who are involved in submitting results to ClinicalTrials.gov for their academic organization. It consists of interactive presentations and hands-on results data entry exercises with the Protocol Registration and Results System (PRS). The workshop topics include: the basic organizational principles of the PRS results modules, step-by-step data entry instructions for common study designs, Results Review Criteria, and navigating the ClinicalTrials.gov website help resources. The workshop will also provide an overview of key laws and policies, including the registration and results submission requirements of Section 801 of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA 801) and its implementing regulations (42 CFR Part 11).

Class dates: July 7 - Aug 31, 2021. 

Created Jul 14, 2021 by nto@utah.edu. 

Updated Jan 7, 2022 by nto@utah.edu.

This course is limited to NNLM Staff. Contact nto@utah.edu to request enrollment. 

This is the place for NNLM Staff to learn about NNLM resources, tools and workflows. New staff can use this as a self-paced orientation to the Network of the National Libraries of Medicine. Topics include: Cultural Humility, Key NLM Products, Learning Object Repository, WebEx.  

Updated April 2021 by the NNLM Training Office. For 2021-2026 Cooperative Agreement.