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Feb
02
0 comments Tags: education resources, NLM Products, NLM Resources
The National Library of Medicine recently released a series of Product Guides, and they’re pretty handy. Here are a few high-impact ways you can use them in your organization. 1. Share them with your colleagues. Because each Product Guide contains suggested use cases for multiple audiences (including consumers, healthcare providers, information professionals and researchers), there’s… Read More »
Posted in: Education, News from NLM, News from NNLM, Training & Education
Nov
14
0 comments Tags: health reference, training, Virtual Conference
Have you ever gotten a health question at the reference desk? Requests for health information can be challenging, especially with our growing awareness that providing reliable health information is more important than ever. Library staff play an important role in providing reliable health information to our communities. Whether providing health information is new to you… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, Education, Library staff, Training & Education
Sep
20
0 comments Tags: consumer health, immigrants, librarian roles, libraries, NNLM Book Discussion, online education, undocumented status
Our wonderful library communities are made up of diverse groups and individuals. Though we value the diversity in our communities, there may be times we struggle when someone else’s history, culture, values, political and social and religious beliefs are different from our own, including beliefs about health and illness. We may feel awkward interacting with… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, Education, Equity Diversity Inclusion, Health Disparities, Health Equity, Health Literacy, Library staff, News from NNLM, Public Health, Public Libraries, Training & Education
Aug
29
0 comments Tags: data intern, ncds, uw ischool
Hello everyone, I am Silvia C. Wu and I am thrilled to be your NNLM Region 5 guest blogger this week for DataFlash. I am a student from the San Jose State University School of Information and will graduate this Fall 2022 with a Master’s in Library Sciences and Information Systems and an Advanced Certificate in… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Data Science, Training & Education
Aug
22
0 comments Tags: data intern, ncds, uw ischool
Hello Region 5! My name is Maria Arteaga Cuevas and I will be your NNLM Region 5 guest blogger this week for DataFlash. A little bit about myself is that I am a first generation graduate student, and I am about to begin my second year of the online MLIS program at the University of… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Data Science, Training & Education