This Week: Healthy Aging Webinar January 31

As you are planning your week, please consider registering for the next SCR webinar, Healthy Aging: Connecting Older Adults to Health Information! Our own NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator Brian Leaf will be leading the class this Thursday, January 31st, 10am – 12pm CT / 9am – 11am MT, and for those

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NNLM SEA Digest News – January 18, 2019

In this week’s SEA Digest, we are featuring articles and resources in recognition of Cervical Health Awareness Month! Cervical Health Awareness Month January is Cervical Health Awareness Month, and NNLM/SEA wants you to know that there’s a lot you can do to prevent cervical cancer. Beyond the HPV vaccine and regular screening tests,

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MLA Annual Meeting Travel Grant

Greetings, MAC, I was asked to share this information: MLA is pleased to offer 10 travel grants to enable members to attend the association’s annual meeting in Chicago. (More grants may be added if additional sponsors are secured.) Funds of up to  $1,000 each, for travel and meeting-related expenses, will be given

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Two Videos Now Available for NLM’s MeSH 2019 Presentations

In case you missed NLM’s January 4th webinar, 2019 MeSH Highlights, the video has been posted. The 20-minute presentation featured new publication types, including systematic reviews; three deleted subheadings; and additional terminology for data, neoplasms and more. Watch the video: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/clinics/mesh_2019.html Another NLM webinar, MeSH Changes and PubMed Searching, was presented on

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NNLM SEA Digest News – January 11, 2019

Join us for this week’s edition of SEA Digest News! NNLM News Introducing the NNLM Reading Club! January and February classes for Certified Health Education Specialists January NIH News in Health Making Healthy New Year Resolutions Check out upcoming education opportunities, news from NIH, NLM, NNLM, and more in this week’s digest!

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NNLM SEA Digest News – January 4, 2019

Happy New Year! The latest edition of the NNLM SEA Digest is now available: NNLM News Looking Forward to 2019 Start the New Year with New Knowledge! Upcoming Training Opportunities from NNLM Have a Healthy New Year New HHS Checklist Helps First Responders Ensure Language Access and Effective Communication During Emergencies Check

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Start the New Year with New Knowledge! Upcoming Training Opportunities from NNLM

Looking for professional development opportunities? The National Network of Libraries of Medicine provides opportunities for library staff, health professionals, educators and others to learn about new health information resources and programs. All of our classes are free, and many are eligible for continuing education credit from the Medical Library Association. Even if you will

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National Library of Medicine recruiting for 2019-2020 Associate Fellows (application deadline 1/25/19)

Could you please help us with our recruitment for National Library of Medicine Associate Fellows! Applications are due on 1/25/19. We know from analysis that a recommendation from a friend, colleague, or co-worker is the way that the Associate Fellowship Program gets many of its best applicants. Your recommendation matters! Position(s): National

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Call for project proposals: 2019 National Institutes of Health hackathon (deadline January 7)

The NCBI will host a collaborative biodata science hackathon on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland February 20-22. We are now collecting project proposals focusing on building tools and pipelines for advanced analysis of biomedical datasets including text, images, next-generation sequencing data, proteomics, and metadata. Proposals for tutorial pipelines and educational tools

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