NCDS Short Course: Teaching Secondary Data Use in Libraries

Posted by Justin de la Cruz on October 12th, 2026 Posted in: courses
Tags: All of Us Research Program, data standards, secondary data

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Teaching Secondary Data Use in Libraries is a four-part short course hosted by the NNLM National Center of Data Services and designed to share ideas around training students and researchers on finding and using existing datasets. Starting with a session on resources and tools available to find secondary data, this series will progress through teaching secondary data use, a discussion of data standards and interoperability, and a case study featuring work on the All of Us Research Program dataset.

Thursday, Oct. 15 at 11am Eastern: Resources for Clinical Data Reuse with Dr. Euny Lee (NIH National Library of Medicine)

Thursday, Oct. 22 at 2pm Eastern: Teaching Secondary Data Use with Fred LaPolla (NYU Health Sciences Library)

Friday, Oct. 30 at 1pm Eastern: OMOP, Data Standards, and Interoperability with Dr. Adam Bouras (Purdue University)

Thursday, Nov. 5 at 2pm Eastern: Secondary Data Use Case Study with Yuqi He, Nick Szydlowski, and Dawn Hackman (San Jose State University Library)

Course Learning Objectives