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Scheduled Courses in Information Services

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Drug and Chemical Information – On Demand: Finding Properties, Effects, and Interactions

This online, self-paced course is intended to introduce librarians to the NLM resources that provide drug and chemical information, from adverse effects to molecular properties, for healthcare professionals and researchers.
Information Services Free Consumer Health Information Specialization NNLM/NLM
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Drug and Chemical Information – On Demand: Using, Providing, and Prescribing Medications

This online, self-paced course is intended to introduce librarians to the NLM resources that provide drug and chemical information for consumers and healthcare professionals who provide or prescribe medications.
Information Services Free Consumer Health Information Specialization NNLM/NLM
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Easy Steps to Building a Team-Based Systematic Review Service (Recording)

It’s easy to build a systematic review service. . . if you have a team and the right model.
Information Services CE Passport Systematic Review Services Specialization MLA
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Effective Health Communication and Health Literacy: Understanding the Connection - April 25, 2024

How are health communication and health literacy connected? This one hour webinar introduces concepts and tools related to improving health literacy and health communication.
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Effectiveness and Efficiency in Exhaustive Searches 2024

The Effectiveness and Efficiency in Exhaustive Searches Course is now open for registration. Course will be held June 20 & July 11, 2024.
Information Services Systematic Review Services Specialization MLA
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Engaging Your Library Community in the Virtual World: A Practical Guide to Creating, Marketing, and Evaluating Online Services and Programs (Recording)

You’ll leave the webinar with ideas for new or improved virtual services and new skills in outreach, marketing, program management and development, and assessment.
Information Services CE Passport MLA
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Environmental Health and Justice: A Brief Primer

What is environmental health and environmental justice environmental justice? Learn the definitions and 3 resources you can use to find data and statistics about environmental health disparities in your community in this 1 hour on-demand online tutorial
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Essential Searching Skills for Librarians on Systematic Review Teams - CE100

Join us at MLA ’24 in Portland, OR for this course if you plan to collaborate on systematic reviews, this is the searching course for you.
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Essential Searching Skills for Librarians on Systematic Review Teams - October 2024

If you plan to collaborate on systematic reviews, this is the searching course for you! The course will take place October 21 & October 28, 2024.
Information Services Instructor-owned Systematic Review Services Specialization
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Exploring Complementary and Integrative Health: Information, Resources, and Evaluation

This online class explores Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) from both Eastern and Western medicine perspectives. We will delve into various approaches to CIH, with associated risks and benefits. We will also equip you with strategies to help your users discern trustworthy CIH information.
Information Services Free Consumer Health Information Specialization NNLM/NLM

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Health Literacy On Demand*

This one-hour narrated online tutorial introduces the concepts of personal and organizational health literacy, and looks at communication practices and resources you can use to improve health literacy.
Information Services Free Consumer Health Information Specialization NNLM/NLM
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Health Misinformation Webinar Series*

This webinar series addresses the widespread problem of health misinformation, including false or misleading information about cancer and COVID-19. Sometimes questionable health information is obvious, but it can also be difficult to recognize and can potentially reach millions of people.
Information Services Free Consumer Health Information Specialization NNLM/NLM
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Health Scientists, Libraries and Public Health: Partnerships for Community Health*

This face-to-face session focuses on how libraries can promote community/public health by creating healthy social and physical environments through cross-sector collaboration to address topics such as disease prevention, health misinformation, digital literacy, expansion of broadband, and wellness.
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Health Statistics on the Web*

Learn the difference between data and statistics, key features and use of health statistics, steps to finding health statistics, and sources of health statistics at the local, state and national level in this 90 minute webinar.
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Health Stories in the Media*

This 4-week online class covers news literacy and health reporting. Learn how health is reported in the news, sources journalists use, and challenges in reporting health research. You will use NLM’s Evaluating Health Information rating tool to evaluate real-life science and health stories.
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HI 60419 Consumer Health Informatics*

LIS course for Kent State University graduate students only. This course examines history and trends in consumer health informatics and health information seeking, examining how consumers (patients, clinicians, and healthcare stakeholders) manage health and health information in the digital age.
Information Services Instructor-owned Information Management Consumer Health Information Specialization
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How PubMed Works On-Demand: Automatic Term Mapping*

Learn about PubMed's automatic term mapping feature that kicks in automatically when you enter untagged terms into the search box.
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How PubMed Works On-Demand: Introduction*

Are you new to PubMed? Maybe you'd like a refresher. This on-demand module will walk you through all the parts of the PubMed interface.
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How PubMed Works On-Demand: MeSH*

What is MeSH and how can it help you search?
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How PubMed Works On-Demand: Selection*

Have you ever wondered how journals are chosen to become MEDLINE journals? Take this class to explore the selection criteria and process for MEDLINE and PMC.
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How PubMed Works*

This series of 4 webinars will cover a breadth of topics to introduce and enhance your abilities in using PubMed. Whether you're a new user or looking for a refresher, each class will provide you with behind-the-scenes information to assist you in successfully using PubMed.
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Introduction to Data Engagement Activities for Campus Communities*

This two-hour online training will walk through some unique and flexible engagement options for building community, solving problems, and applying the new skillsets needed to work in the Researcher Workbench and create interdisciplinary awareness and interest.
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Introduction to Health Reference: Ethics and Best Practices*

Learn how to conduct a health reference interview using ethical and effective communication strategies in this 4 credit-hour, on-demand, online class.
Information Services Consumer Health Information Specialization NNLM/NLM
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Introduction to Precision Medicine*

Explore precision medicine's clinical applications and ethical and legal implications in this 2 hour self-paced online class from the NNLM All of Us Program Center.
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Is Anybody Out There? Leveraging Strategic Marketing Approaches to Get your Library’s Message Heard*

If you’ve ever felt like your library’s messaging is getting lost, you are not alone. In this interactive online workshop, you’ll look at real marketing challenges faced by The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library and the strategies used to overcome them.
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Librarians Combating Health Misinformation: Get Involved in Your Community*

Librarians are a trusted resource in their communities, so they are well placed to help stop the spread of health misinformation. In this webinar, learn to recognize misinformation, then discover how you can work with other librarians and libraries in your community to strengthen health literacy.
Information Services Instructor-owned Health Information Professionalism Consumer Health Information Specialization
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Link Your Community with Health Information: Resources for Community Health Workers*

This course is a 5-week online course about how to evaluate online health information.
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LinkOut for Libraries*

LinkOut for Libraries provides journal access to PubMed users. Join us for an informational webinar to learn more about this service from the National Library of Medicine. Erin Latta, from the National DOCLINE Coordination Office, will lead this webinar.
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LIS 5631 Health Information Sources*

Online, asynchronous course for University of South Florida graduate students only. This course provides an introduction to printed and electronic sources of health information.
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LIS 5937 Graphic Literature for Libraries*

Online, asynchronous course of University of South Florida students only. This course explores evaluation, collection development, organization, promotion, readers’ advisory, programming, intellectual freedom, and the use of graphic novels in a variety of instructional settings.
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LIS 60620 Health Information Resources*

LIS course for Kent State University graduate students only. LIS 60620 Health Information Resources identifies print and electronic sources of health information with emphasis on electronic sources. Medical patient and consumer health information is presented.
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LIS 6475 Health Sciences Librarianship*

Online, asynchronous LIS course for University of South Florida graduate students only. This course covers all aspects of health science librarianship, including administration, acquisition, organization, and use of information resources.
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Making Sense of Numbers: Communicating Numerical Health Data*

This 90 minute/1.5 credit hour webinar is an introduction for anyone who wants to improve communication of health information that involves numbers.
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MDMLG Winter Program on Graphic Medicine*

Graphic medicine refers to the intersection of the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare. In this online session, we explore how to help providers and patients alike access, read, and create graphic medicine through the library.
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Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) Changes and PubMed Searching – On Demand*

Every year, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are updated. How does this affect your PubMed searches? This on-demand course provides answers and allows participants to engage with exercises to practice what you learn.
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