NNLM SEA Digest News – January 8, 2021

Posted by elizabethwaltman on January 8th, 2021 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

• Deadline Extended: NNLM SEA 2020-2021 Funded Project Awards
• Instructor Training from The Carpentries and NNLM
• A Resilient New Year!
• Consumer Health Minute: New Dietary Guidelines

Upcoming Online Training Opportunities*

Moodle LMS Asynchronous Course Opportunities

• Health and Wellness @ the Library: The Essentials of Providing Consumer Health Services (Feb 8 – Mar 5)
• Providing Multilingual and Multicultural Health Information (Feb 22 – Mar 22)

Webinars January 12 – January 14

• Bringing Public Health and Public Libraries Together (Jan 12, 2 PM ET)
• Scholarly Communication in Academic Libraries: An ever changing landscape of responsibilities (Jan 13, 11 AM ET)
• Making Sense of Numbers: Understanding Risks and Benefits (Jan 14, 1 PM ET)
• NNLM Reading Club Presents…an afternoon with Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M.D. (Jan 14, 3 PM ET)

Webinars January 15 – January 21

• 2021 MeSH Changes and PubMed Searching (Jan 15, 1 PM ET)
• Evaluation Pathways: LGBTQIA+ Health (Jan 15, 2 PM ET)
• Identifying the Gaps: the Status of Data Management Education in Doctoral Nursing Programs (Jan 19, 3 PM ET)
• Trauma Informed Approach in Libraries (Jan 21, 3 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: The People’s Picks for Best Posts
• Stem cell treatment corrects skull shape and restores brain function in mouse model of childhood disorder
• Large clinical trial will test combination monoclonal antibody therapy for mild/moderate COVID-19
• Peer-reviewed report on Moderna COVID-19 vaccine publishes

NLM News

• Musings from the Mezzanine: Upcoming Training Opportunity: University-based Training for Research Careers in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
• Circulating Now: Defoe and the Plague Year
• NLM Technical Bulletin: Important Changes to NCBI Accounts Coming in 2021

NCBI Insights

• GenBank release 241.0
• Retrieve genome data by BioProject using the Datasets command-line tool
• Expanding access to coronavirus-related literature: the COVID-19 Initiative in PMC reaches 100K articles!
• The Protein Family Model resource is now available!

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.