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Apr

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Biomedical and Health Research Data Management Professional Development Scholarship

Posted by on April 30th, 2019 0 comments Tags: , , ,

This is the first blog post in a series authored by several individuals who received professional development scholarships for completing the Biomedical and Health Research Data Management Training for Librarians. In this installment, a scholarship recipient, Jennifer Chaput, describes her professional development opportunity in data science.  For more posts about resources from this funding opportunity… Read More »

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Apr

22

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Tips to Co-Host/Run an Edit-a-thon

Posted by on April 22nd, 2019 0 comments Tags: , , , , ,

May 6th is fast approaching for MLA and the Spring NLM edit-a-thon.  We hope you’ve been keeping an eye on our WikiProject page <nnlm.gov/wiki>, as we’ve been adding more training materials and event details! Our topic this spring is Health Disparities.   If you can’t make it in person, consider hosting an edit-a-thon at your… Read More »

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Apr

08

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April is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month

Posted by on April 8th, 2019 0 comments Tags: , , , ,

                  The blog post that follows was written by Saba Shahid, Chief Smiling Officer of The Art Cart. In May of 2018 The Art Cart received a Community Engagement Grant Award from the NNLM NER to create an online training program to about how use art as… Read More »

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Apr

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Focused Outreach in Quiet Corner, CT

Posted by on April 1st, 2019 0 comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

  In each year of our five-year cooperative agreement with the National Library of Medicine, the New England region provides a special kind of outreach, called “Focused Outreach” to specified, medically-underserved areas in New England.  Bangor, Maine was identified as this year’s urban, focused outreach area and Quiet Corner, Connecticut was identified as the rural,… Read More »

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Mar

06

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Preserving Long Term Institutional Memory

Posted by on March 6th, 2019 0 comments Tags: , , , , ,

Does this sound familiar? Your institution’s records are relegated to boxes in a back room, basement or or simply tossed without review. Join us on Thursday, March 14th 2019, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM as we host Nadia Dixson, the Somerville City Archivist, as she presents, “How Did We Get Here: Maintaining Records for… Read More »

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