 Featured NLM Training
NLM 2022 History Talks
The NLM announced its 2022 History Talks. All talks are free, live-streamed globally, and archived by NIH VideoCasting. On the calendar for January and February:
Join Us for NLM Office Hours
Date and time: January 28, 11am CT/12pm ET
Register here: https://nnlm.gov/civicrm-event/518
NLM and NNLM staff invite you to join us to talk about NLM’s products. Each office hour will feature a specific NLM product, and include a brief demo or interactive exercise followed by a Q&A session with product experts. Additional training opportunities related to the product will also be highlighted.
The first office hour will be a conversation with PubMed product staff from the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
NLM office hours are hosted by NNLM and offer one credit of Medical Library Association (MLA) continuing education (CE). Registration is limited to 100 participants.
Is there an NLM product you would like to ask about? Send requests for future office hour topics through the NLM Support Center. Use the subject line: NLM Office Hour Request. Sign up for NLM Technical Bulletin Alerts to get notifications on future NLM office hours.
Region 6 Librarians Featured on NLM Director's Blog
Annie “Nicky” Nickum and Rebecca Raszewski, faculty and nursing liaison librarians at the University of Illinois Chicago, contributed the January 12, 2022 post on Patti Brennan's blog, NLM Musings from the Mezzanine. The post mentions the NExT project, Nursing Experts: Translating the Evidence. The guide - a tool for learning about evidence based practice and a portal to evidence based practice resources - is a result of a multi-year collaboration between nurses and librarians, and funding support from Region 6.
We'll be hosting a Speaker Spotlight session on this project on April 6, 2022 at 2pm CT/3pm ET - save the date, registration will open soon!
The NNLM Reading Club is Back
Health misinformation always has an audience – from snake oil salesmen of ages past to savvy social media health “experts” and “fake news” reports of the present. The pandemic leaves people vulnerable and uncertain. As sophisticated misinformation peddlers take advantage of our 24/7 communications torrent, they make it even harder for people to discern health information fact from fiction.
Critically evaluating health information is a crucial skill in today’s media-driven society. So is understanding the tactics that new-age charlatans use to dupe well-meaning individuals. This month, the NNLM Reading Club suggests three books to help uncover health misinformation – the strategies used to make it believable and the critical thinking skills needed to discover its real character.
We encourage you to learn how to spot health misinformation by reading one of these books and discussing it in your book club. Visit NNLM Reading Club: Health Misinformation to get started.
February 28, 2022 is Rare Disease Day
The NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) will sponsor this year’s Rare Disease Day (RDD) at an NIH event with the NIH Clinical Center. This event aims to raise awareness about rare diseases, the people they affect, and NIH research collaborations that address scientific challenges and advance research for new treatments. RDD at NIH 2022 is a free and virtual event that is open to the public. Learn more and register for the event!
Betsy McCormick, Chicago librarian who helped develop MEDLINE, has died
Betsy McCormick was the longtime head librarian at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and worked with librarians from other institutions to develop the MEDLINE bibliographic database.
“My mom was a wildly intelligent person and her way of channeling this intelligence and interest in mission-driven work was to work as a librarian,” McCormick’s daughter said. “She loved the puzzle and the chase of research, and she loved the impact of medicine." Read more here.
Join the AHRQ Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative
AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program created the Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative (CDSiC) to promote collaboration and innovation related to CDS. The CDSiC will integrate diverse perspectives to produce resources and evidence to advance the field of clinical decision support, making it more valuable and meaningful to patients, clinicians, and healthcare systems. AHRQ has contracted with NORC at the University of Chicago to lead this research effort.
Sign up for email list to receive receive newsletter updates regarding CDSiC activities, opportunities to provide feedback on CDSiC outputs, and announcements of publicly available CDSiC meetings and resources.
Friends of the NLM Virtual Workshop
Date: January 26, 2022
Register here.
The workshop will explore:
- Finding the newest, most relevant articles and scientific evidence relevant to COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 and the associated pandemic.
- A wide variety of search and curation strategies, algorithmic and machine learning approaches.
- Where things are headed and what lessons learned can be applied in future public health emergencies.
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