NNLM SEA Digest News – June 19, 2020

Posted by elizabethwaltman on June 19th, 2020 Posted in: All Posts, SEA Digest

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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.  

NNLM News

• 2020 Summer Reading Programming with SciStarter and NNLM
• Announcing the NNLM Reading Club Presents….
• Application period open for the 2021-2026 cycle of the Network of the National Library Medicine
• Apply to Host a Library Carpentry Workshop for Your Organization!

Upcoming Online Training Opportunities*

Moodle LMS Asynchronous Course Opportunities

• Food for Thought: Exploring Nutrition Information Resources (Jul 6 – Jul 31)
• Beyond an Apple a Day: Providing Consumer Health Information at Your Library (Jul 10 – Aug 7)

Webinars June 23 – July 9

• Searching LactMed and LiverTox for Drug Effects (Jun 23, 1 PM ET)
• From Problem to Prevention: Evidence-Based Public Health (Jun 24, 2 PM ET)
• Introduction to Community Needs Assessment: Finding the Data (Jul 8, 2 PM ET)
• Getting Started with Information Outreach in your Community: An Introduction (Jul 9, 1 PM ET)

Webinars July 14 – July 15

• Fostering Mutuality: How One Library Prepared for the Opioid Crisis (Jul 14, 12 PM ET)
• NNLM Reading Club Presents… The Digital Doctor in the Age of COVID-19 (Jul 14, 3 PM ET)
• I am … Safe Zone: Gender This! (Jul 15, 12 PM ET)
• Using the Community Tool Box to support health education and health promotion efforts (Jul 15, 4 PM ET)

Visit the NNLM Training Schedule for all upcoming webinars, scheduled, and on-demand classes. For past webinars and classes, please visit the NNLM on YouTube**

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

NIH News

• The NIH Director’s Blog: Genes, Blood Type Tied to Risk of Severe COVID-19
• All of Us Research Program launches COVID-19 research initiatives
• Combination of healthy lifestyle traits may substantially reduce Alzheimer’s
• NIH-funded study links endometriosis to DNA changes

NLM News

• Musings from the Mezzanine: Graduation 2020: Tradition in the Midst of Change
• Circulating Now: Revealing Data: Learning About Zika
• NLM Technical Bulletin: NLM Announces NIH Preprint Pilot to Provide Early Access to COVID-19 Research

NCBI Insights

• New BLAST default parameters and search limits coming in September
• June 24 webinar: An insider’s guide to creating Federal grant BioSketches
• dbSNP human build 154 release + ALFA data
• New annotations in RefSeq: budgerigar, bony fish, fly and more

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