NNLM SEA Digest News – March 5, 2021

Posted by elizabethwaltman on March 5th, 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

• Online Library Carpentry Workshop Opportunity: March 25th – 26th
• New Citizen Science Exploration Kit from NNLM
• Registration for BLOSSOM Symposium Now Open
• Fortify Your Knowledge Diet with the NNLM Reading Club!

Upcoming Online Training Opportunities*

Webinars March 9 – March 11

• Pitching Public Health to Public Libraries: Finding Common Ground (Mar 9, 2 PM ET)
• Learning from American Indian and Alaska Native Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Mar 10, 11 AM ET)
• Enhance Your Public Health Searching Skills (Mar 10, 2 PM ET)
• How PubMed Works: Selection (Mar 11, 1 PM ET)

Webinars March 16 – March 23

• Caring for the Mind: Providing Mental Health Information At Your Library (Mar 16, 2 PM ET)
• How PubMed Works: MeSH (Mar 18, 1 PM ET)
• Addressing Health Misinformation at the Scale of the Internet (Mar 22, 1 PM ET)
• NLM’s Human Genetics Resources for Clinicians and Biologists (Mar 23, 1 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:  Taking a Community-Based Approach to Youth Substance Abuse Prevention
• NIH to evaluate COVID-19 at-home testing system
• NIH scientists discover how DNA fragments can trigger inflammation in sickle cell disease
• NIH invests in next iteration of public-private partnership to advance precision medicine research for Alzheimer’s disease

NLM News

• Musings from the Mezzanine: Vaccines, Vaccinations, and NLM
• Circulating Now: What It Means to Talk about Race and African American Health
• NLM Technical Bulletin: RxNorm March 2021 Release

NCBI Insights

• Important Update About How You Log Into your NCBI Accounts
• March 10 Webinar: Where to find data for your research organism!
• NIH’s Sequence Read Archive to be made available on AWS’s Open Data Sponsorship Program
• The Datasets command-line tool now provides ortholog data

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.