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Mar
08
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LactMed, a free database about drugs and lactation, is produced by the National Library of Medicine. It is available via the website, https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/newtoxnet/lactmed.htm, or as a mobile app. LactMed provides information on many of the drugs and chemical to which nursing mothers may be exposed, including dietary supplements. The information contained in LactMed includes: Summary… Read More »
Posted in: News from NLM, Training & Education
Mar
05
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The National Network of Libraries of Medicine and the Public Library Association are continuing to partner with an opportunity for public library staff, both professional and paraprofessional, to participate in virtual focus groups this spring. The purpose of the research is to better understand the challenges and rewards of providing health information in public libraries…. Read More »
Posted in: News from NNLM, Public Libraries
Feb
15
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For your Love Data Week poetry enjoyment… Life is filled with normal distributions But you are an outlier You skewed my mean(ing) Showing me a world beyond average Somehow helping me find my significance And yet still bring me back to center -@epilady For researchers loving their data, There are no divisions or strata! Their… Read More »
Posted in: Data Science
Feb
15
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In the spirit of Love Data Week’s 2018 theme, Data Stories, it’s important to consider cautionary tales as well as good outcomes. We should, after all, learn from our mistakes. Perhaps the best known collection of data horror stories is Dorothea Salo’s Research Data Management Horror Stories pinboard. Dorothea, a University of Wisconsin academic librarian… Read More »
Posted in: Data Science
Feb
14
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Join us for our next PNR Rendezvous, “Hope From Our Grandmothers: Decolonizing Data Through Stories of Resilience” When: Wednesday, February 21, 1:00pm PT, Noon Alaska Time, 2:00pm MT Much research has been historically rooted in controlling American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) and other indigenous peoples to exploit land and natural resources, or even heredity… Read More »
Posted in: Data Science, News From NNLM PNR, Training & Education