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This Spotlight! session, Birds Do It, Bees Do It: Sexual Health Resources, will be presented by Siobhan Champ-Blackwell. This presentation offers reliable resources on sexual health, tips on handling the reference interview, and includes sections on resources for teens, GLBT community members, adults, and older adults.
Taking the one-hour class and completing the exercises and class evaluation makes you eligible to receive 1 Medical Library Association Continuing Education credit. This online training is FREE. Register online at http://tinyurl.com/mcrclasses (registration is not required but is appreciated).
URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/ Equipment: connection to the Internet and a phone, Login: as a guest with your first and last name. Instructions to connect to the aud…

The NLM theater presentations featured at the exhibit booth at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association meeting will bring you up-to-date on several NLM products and servces. (Source: NLM Technical Bulletin)

News of the devastating floods that have impacted portions of the country can serve as a reminder of the importance of setting up library salvage plans in the event of a water emergency. The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library, has recently introduced a new site, Emergency Preparedness and Response: How to Safely Stabilize Library Collections in the Event of a Water Emergency.
The website, a collaborative effort by NLM staff from the History of Medicine Division, Preservation and Collection Management Section, National Network Office, Office of Computer and Communications Systems, and the Office of High Performance Computing and Communications Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, contains links to short instructional video…

The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, recently conducted a video contest in which the public was invited to create original short videos, promoting awareness of NLM products and services. (Source: NLM Technical Bulletin)

As part of the Staten Island University Hospitals continuing mission to give the trainees in residency programs outstanding clinical and academic training, the Medical Library provides information literacy instruction to medical residents as a component of their curriculum. For the last few years, two-hour training sessions have been given to the groups of residents on [...] (Source: NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog)

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The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, recently conducted a video contest in which the public was invited to create original short videos, promoting awareness of NLM’s products and services.Entries were submitted on YouTube and were then screened by a panel of judges from NLM and NIH. (Source: NLM General Announcements)

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The National Training Center‘s Educational Clearinghouse has merged with the Medical Library Association’s Educational Clearinghouse. NLM, MLA and the NTC realized the two clearinghouses were duplicating information and decided to merged. The MLA Educational Clearinghouse now includes more than just continuing education classes, such as brochures and handouts. The clearinghouse can be searched by anyone, members and non-members.
For more information, read Zipser J, Cavanaugh D. NTCC Educational Clearinghouse Merges with the MLA Educational Clearinghouse. NLM Tech Bull. 2011 May-Jun;(380):e1. (Source: Network News)

Information Connections an informative website for parents of children with developmental disabilities and chronic diseases, was recently launched by the Marianjoy Medical Library. (Source: Disabled World)