NAHSL Conference 2008 takes place in Lowell, MA!

Save the dates: October 19th-21st, 2008

Please see the (ever-growing) conference Web page, and begin making your plans for fall:

http://www.nahsl.org/2008

Connecting with NER: A Distance Education Series

“Connecting with the NER”A Distance Education Series 

Stay up to date professionally without leaving your desk! The National Network of Libraries of Medicine/ New England Region brings you a new distance education series. This ongoing series will feature hot topics in health sciences librarianship and highlight major updates to National Library of Medicine resources.   For full details  http://nnlm.gov/ner/training/distancelearning.html

Register for one, two or all sessions. Each session will be held via teleconference and will have an online component via Adobe Connect. All you need to participate is a phone near a computer with Internet access. Registration is on a first come, first serve basis. Participation is limited to 20 phone lines. So, if there is more than one interested participant from your library, we encourage you to use a speaker phone to participate together.  To register, please contact Martha Pearson at martha.pearson@umassmed.edu and let her know which session you want to attend. Details of how to access the teleconference and Adobe Connect session will be forwarded upon registration.  

Programs Include: Health Literacy
Guest speaker: Rima Rudd
Date: February 12, 2008
Time: 1-2 PM 

“Library as Commons: Improving the Library Experience”
Guest speaker: Cheryl Bryan
Date: March 19, 2008
Time: 1- 2 PM

“Marketing Showcase”
Guest speaker: You!
Date: April 9, 2008
Time: 1-3:30 PM

Stay tuned to the “Connecting with the NER” distance learning series page at http://nnlm.gov/ner/training/distancelearning.html for upcoming programs. 

Free classes in 2008 by the NNLM NTCC

Free classes by the NNLM National Training Center and Clearinghouse Register soon as classes fill fast!

MULTIPLE OFFERINGS INCLUDING PUBMED, TOXNET THE NLM GATEWAY & CLINICALTRIALS.GOV

 

Complete information including how to register is available online at http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/regions.html. 

Classes come with Medical Library Association CE units. Don’t miss out! 

Michelle Eberle
Consumer Health Information Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine - New England
University of Massachusetts Medical School
222 Maple Avenue - Shrewsbury - MA - 01545
508-856-2435 / 800-338-7657
michelle.eberle@umassmed.edu

Online workshop from NLM

Learn how to find articles about a chemical or drug of interest. This hour-long online clinic covered how the NLM MeSH® vocabulary is used to describe substance concepts and how to search PubMed for relevant articles.

Take a look at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/clinics/chem.html.  This has been recommended by a MAHSLIN member.