NNLM SEA Digest News – November 6, 2020

Posted by elizabethwaltman on November 6th, 2020 Posted in: All Posts, SEA Digest

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

NNLM News

• Facilitating Rural Access to Quality Health Information through Little Free Libraries
• Take a Closer Look at Genetics with the NNLM Reading Club
• Clinical eCompanion will be retired on November 12, 2020
• RDM Snippets – Finding Repositories for Your Data

Upcoming Online Training Opportunities*

Moodle LMS Asynchronous Course Opportunities

• Consumer Technology to Manage Personal Health Data (Nov 9 – Nov 20)
• Beyond an Apple a Day: Providing Consumer Health Information at Your Library (Nov 13 – Dec 11)

Webinars November 10 – November 16

• Libraries Build Healthy Communities: Going Virtual @ Brooklyn Public Library (Nov 10, 3 PM ET)
• Partnering Together to Support Alzheimer’s Caregivers in Diverse Communities (Nov 10, 3 PM ET)
• The Importance of Librarians in Building Health Literacy through Partnerships and Programs (Nov 11, 11 AM ET)
• Evaluating Information during COVID-19: Preprints, retractions, rumors and more (Nov 16, 12 PM ET)

Webinars November 17 – November 20

• NNLM Reading Club Presents…Bill Sullivan, PhD, author of Pleased to Meet Me (Nov 17, 2 PM ET)
• Partnering for Improved Communication: A Health Literacy Program-in-a-Box (Nov 18, 2 PM ET)
• Rural Health Resources (Nov 19, 2 PM ET)
• DNA to Z: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (Nov 20, 2 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: Speeding COVID-19 Drug Discovery with Quantum Dots
• NIH researchers identify gene in mice that controls food cravings, desire to exercise
• The gut trains the immune system to protect the brain
• Neighborhood conditions associated with children’s cognitive function

NLM News

• Musings from the Mezzanine: Fostering a Culture of Scientific Data Stewardship
• Circulating Now: Revealing Data: Ars de Statica Medicina, 1614
• NLM Technical Bulletin: RxNorm November 2020 Release

NCBI Insights

• New PubMed updates and retirement of legacy PubMed on October 31
• GenBank 240.0 is available and surpasses 10 trillion basepairs!
• November 18 Webinar: A new way to prepare genome submissions using NCBI’s Genome Workbench!
• NCBI RefSeq and Ensembl/GENCODE taking MANE mainstream with v0.92!

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.