This class will be available on November 13, 2020.

This class covers the health information seeking behavior of consumers and the role of the librarian in the provision of health information for the public. Come learn about the evolution of consumer health, health literacy and the e-patient. Participants will be equipped with knowledge of top consumer health sites, e-patient resources and collection development core lists. We will discuss creative ideas for health information outreach. The class will wrap up with an opportunity to explore effective marketing approaches and develop an elevator speech.

For more information about this course, see the course description page. (new window)

For more information, see the course description page. (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 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. 

This course will introduce basic concepts in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), issues about research into CAM therapies, evaluating CAM information, recommended websites, and researching evidence about CAM therapies.

This is a 6-week class (5 weeks of coursework and 1 week for catching up, if needed), and there will be approximately 30 to 90 minutes of work per week. At the end, you will have earned 8 hours of MLA or CHIS CE credit.

This recording of the HESPA II 2020 Curricular Mapping for Advancing Health Education Specialist Professionals Webinar is available for Certified Health Education Specialists as a continuing education opportunity through April 8, 2021.

This recording of the June 2nd session of Beyond Our Borders: Providing Multilingual and Multicultural Health Information is available for Certified Health Education Specialists as a continuing education opportunity through December 2nd, 2020.

This hour-long, asynchronous course is designed for both public health and emergency preparedness professionals and students, as well as the information professionals that support them, who are interested in a basic introduction to emergency and disaster management concepts and learning where you can find information resources to both prepare and respond to emergencies that might take place in your community.

Attendees will learn about the four phases of emergency management and how you can use the National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus, DisasterLit, REMM, and WISER databases to access life saving information related to public health emergencies and disasters.

To register and receive an enrollment key via email, please visit please visit the Dissemination and Disasters: Using Information to Save Lives (new window) class page on nnlm.gov.

Good data collection tools follow three key principles. They aim to decrease perceived risk, increase perceived benefit, and decrease cost to respondents.  This class shows you how to apply these principles in developing questionnaires and interviews. 

Objectives: 

Participants will learn how to:

• Design data collection methods to match their program plans
• Develop quality items for questionnaires
• Questionnaire distribution methods to increase response rates
• Develop interview question guides
• Conduct interviews that will elicit useful information
• Mix qualitative and quantitative methods in program evaluation

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

To register and receive an enrollment key via email, please visit the Getting the Right Information to Patients Using MedlinePlus Connect (new window) class page on nnlm.gov.

This recording of the September 9th session of NNLM's Public Health Webinar Series: Grey Literature Resources to Support Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery is available for Certified Health Education Specialists as a continuing education opportunity through March 9th, 2021.

How PubMed Works is a series of four recordings. The individual recordings are:

1. How PubMed Works: Introduction
2. How PubMed Works: Selection
3. How PubMed Works: MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
4. How PubMed Works: ATM (Automatic Term Mapping)

You do not have to complete all four modules, however, we highly recommend it. 

To register and receive a Moodle enrollment key for the class via email, please visit the How PubMed Works- On Demand (new window)  class page on nnlm.gov.

Please contact Rebecca Brown via email at rebecca.brown@utah.edu (new window) with any questions.

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

This is an on-demand class. To register and receive an enrollment key via email, please visit the Introduction to Health Reference (new window) class page on nnlm.gov.

Contact nto@utah.edu with questions. | Updated May 1, 2020.

This course is designed to teach public health professionals and librarians to use National Library of Medicine resources in order to find reliable health information and data related to population health and Healthy People 2020. Introductions to MedlinePlus, PubMed, and HSRProj will be covered.

There are five sections in this course:

This online, asynchronous course is designed to provide attendees with some basic statistics on individuals with limited English proficiency in the United States and demonstrate how to use resources from the National Library of Medicine to access reliable health information in multiple languages.

Attendees will learn about data from the American Community Survey and U.S. Census Bureau, and then receive demonstrations on how to access reliable health information in multiple languages through the National Library of Medicine's HealthReach, MedlinePlus, and Specialized Information Services databases.

This course is designed to introduce attendees to health disparities and how the social determinants of health contribute to an inequity in health.

Participants will be shown demonstrations on how to utilize tools from the National Library of Medicine, the Office of Minority Health, and HealthyPeople.gov to locate data on health disparities.

To register and receive an enrollment key via email, please visit the Serving Diverse Communities: Finding Data on Health Disparities class page on nnlm.gov.

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.

This course opens October 2020.

Click here to register on NNLM.gov and obtain enrollment key for this course. (new window)  

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, identify appropriate data repositories for a given dataset, examine security/privacy issues with data, and explain how data policies affect data ownership, security, and storage. 

This course opens October 2020.

Click here to register on NNLM.gov and obtain enrollment key for this course. (new window)

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.

This is a place for previous RDM class members to meet and share what they are doing.

This course is for NNLM All of Us Community Engagement Network staff. The purpose is to build knowledge, practice using and personalizing the talking points and national message. This is to ensure a unified and accurate message. This course is limited to NNLM Staff.

This course is designed to support any NLM staff member to understand the basics of using Moodle by through hands-on practice with various tools. 

This course serves as part of training for new staff,  as well as a resource for NNLM staff to explore at time of need.

This course created by the NNLM Training Office, April 18, 2019. 

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: Accessibility and 508 Compliance, Branding and Style Guides, Cultural Humility, Key NLM Products, Learning Object Repository, WebEx best practices, Class Guidelines.  

Updated August 2020 by the NNLM Training Office. 

This is the place where NNLM Staff can learn about NNLM resources by watching recorded Staff Development sessions. Recordings are added as available and include all recorded sessions from June 2018 - present. Contact nto@utah.edu if you require access. Created June 11, 2019 by the NNLM Training Office. Updated April 27, 2020. 

This course is limited to NNLM Staff.