NNLM SEA Digest News – May 24, 2018

Posted by Tony Nguyen on May 24th, 2018 Posted in: All Posts

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Welcome to the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM), Southeastern/Atlantic (SEA) Region’s Weekly Digest. This digest includes upcoming events, online training opportunities, news, and past events.  

Top Items of Interest

• The National Library of Medicine, NNLM, and National DOCLINE Coordination Office will be closed on May 28, 2018 in observance of the Memorial Day holiday.
• MLA 2018 NLM Theater Presentations – Recordings Available

NNLM News

• SEAside Webinar: NLM Strategic Plan – A NNLM SEA Network Member Forum (June 6, 2 PM ET)
• Beyond the SEA Webinar: LGBTQ Communities: Your Best Resource to Reduce Health Disparities (June 7, 2 PM ET)
• NNLM Research Data Management Webinar Series: Research Data Management Services: Beyond Analysis and Coding (June 14, 2 PM ET)
• SEAside Webinar: Gauging the Quality of Open Access References in PubMed: The MEDLINE, PubMed Central, and PubMed Connection (June 21, 2 PM ET)
• NTO: 5 Free PubMed CE Webinars from the NNLM Training Office

Upcoming Online Training Opportunities*

Asynchronous Online Moodle Courses

• GMR: From Beyond Our Borders: Providing Multilingual and Multicultural Health Information (June 4 – June 29)

Webinars: May 28 – June 1

• MAR: Boost Box: Health Bodies, Healthy Minds (May 29, 1 PM ET)
• NNLM Resource Picks: Healthy Aging – Promoting Healthy Living in Older Adults through Quality Health Information (May 30, 3 PM ET)

Webinars: June 4-8

• MAR: Pride at the Library: LGBTQ Programming for All Ages (June 5, 2 PM ET)
• NTO: PubMed for Librarians – Introduction to PubMed (June 6, 1 – 2:30 PM ET)
• SEA: NLM Strategic Plan – A NNLM SEA Network Member Forum (June 6, 2 PM ET)
• SEA: Beyond the SEA: LGBTQ Communities: Your Best Resource to Reduce Health Disparities (June 7, 2 PM ET

Visit the NNLM Training Schedule for all upcoming webinars and classes.

National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM), and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) News

NIH News

• NIH Director’s Blog: Unlocking the Brain’s Memory Retrieval System
• Testimony on the Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request Before the Senate Committee

NLM News

• NLM Welcomes Applications to Its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine for 2019 (Apply by September 28)
• NLM Informatics and Data Science Lecture Series: Semantic Annotations, Reuse, and Reproducibility (June 6, 2 PM)

NLM Technical Bulletin

• Test pilot the new PubMed by visiting PubMed Labs
• NLM to Discontinue PubMed Health on October 31, 2018
• MeSH Indexing Policy Change for Obituaries and In Memoriam
• Policy Change for Multiple Translations of the Same Journal Article

NCBI Insights

• GenBank Release 225: Over 1 Billion Sequence Records Stored!
• Applications for July 2018 Post-ISMB Chicago Bioinformatics Hackathon at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine are Open

Focus on Substance Misuse

• NNLM YouTube: How Do Communities Welcome People Managing Mental Illnesses and the Disease of Addiction?
• WebJunction: Opioid Addiction Resources for Patrons
• National Institute on Drug Abuse for Teachers: Get Activity Ideas & Toolkits
• You for Youth: Drug and Alcohol Prevention Resources

Miscellaneous News

• Circulating Now: Making Exhibition Connections: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
• Musings from the Mezzanine: Public Libraries: Partners in Health
• NLM in Focus: For Memorial Day: Arlington National Cemetery’s NLM Connections

NNLM SEA Communications

• Online Newsletter: SEA Currents
• Facebook
• Facebook SEA Consumer Health Group
• Twitter

* Notes on NNLM Training Opportunities

• All sessions listed are sponsored by a specific regional or national office, but open to all.
• Webinars are scheduled for 1 hour unless otherwise noted.
• The NNLM class registration system requires a free NNLM account prior to registration.
• Visit the NNLM Training Opportunities to register and view a full calendar of training opportunities.
• Please visit the NNLM Acronym Guideto understand the acronyms.
• Refer to this guide to claim MLA CE credit.
• Not all Training Opportunities listed provide MLA CE credit. Please refer to the class page to see if a specific session offers credit.

** Please note that recordings from NNLM available on YouTube may not have MLA CE Credit available. Please contact the regional office that sponsored the webinar for details.