This class will be available on January 8, 2021

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This class will be available on September 4, 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.

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Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials For Librarians: Databases, Tools, and Clinical Applications is an introductory, online bioinformatics course for librarians using the Moodle learning management system.  It is 16 week,  self-paced course worth 30 hours of CE credit from the Medical Library Association. It is designed both for librarians who offer, or intend to offer, bioinformatics services; and also for librarians who use bioinformatics information on a periodic or irregular basis to serve their patrons.  This course is offered twice a year, generally Jan - May and Aug - Dec. This is the August 2020 cohort (BBEL 6). Course dates: August 24 - December 11, 2020.

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Contact nto@utah.edu with questions. 

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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 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.

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.

This is a discussion board for participants in the NNLM AoU Research Program funded community of practice. It is for Consumer Health librarians, library workers and community members who work towards furthering accessible and reliable health information for all people - especially those who have systematically been blocked from accessing reliable and quality health information.

Code to enter the conversations: cp2020 (It is the year 2020 so the 0s are zeros)

Contact Brittney Thomas Brittney-Thomas@uiowa.edu with questions.

 A place for the GMR's Public Libraries Focus Group to meet and share information and ideas. 

Learn how to  fix common 508 accessibility issues in Adobe Acrobat in this self paced tutorial that uses worksheets and guided answers. Use the enrollment key tables to enroll. Created by Rebecca Brown, May 2018, nto@utah.edu 

This course is limited to NNLM Staff. 

This on-demand class introduces the ADDIE instructional design model. This course is intended to provide one approach to designing classes. For more information, contact nto@utah.edu Created July 18, 2018. Checked February 12, 2020. 

This course is limited to NNLM Staff.

Online community for NNLM Staff with an interest in Data Visualization. This course is limited to NNLM Staff.

For NNLM Staff who have completed the NNLM Teaching and Learning Workshop. You will be enrolled after your RML hosts the face to face Teaching and Learning Workshop. Contact NTO for assistance.This course is limited to NNLM Staff.