Content focused on serving the needs of community-based organizations and their staff.
Community-based Organizations
Find guides and resources for community-based organizations and their staff.
Drug and Chemical Information On-Demand
Learn how to use NLM resources to find drug and chemical information through a suite of on-demand classes. Complete all 3 classes for an in-depth introduction to NLM drug and chemical information resources, or complete the class that meets your needs for a specific population or commonly received questions.
Effective Health Communication and Health Literacy: Understanding the Connection
How are health communication and health literacy connected? How can you be more effective in providing health information to consumers, patients, clients, library patrons and your community? This 1 hour webinar introduces the concepts of health literacy and health communication, outlines components of clear health communication, and identifies online resources from NLM, government agencies and other recognized resources for health literacy and health communication.
Environmental Health and Justice
Foundations of Citizen Science + Libraries as Community Hubs for Citizen Science
What is citizen science? How can I get involved? This 2 hour, on-demand, online class from NNLM and SciStarter.org introduces citizen science for librarians, staff, and community-based organization leaders and includes clear, specific instructions and case studies on how a small, midsize, or large library or organization can bring citizen science activities and programs to their community. This tutorial is available in English and Spanish through scistarter.org.
Health Misinformation Resources
Health Statistics on the Web
This presentation meets the NLM/NIH strategic plan goal of building a workforce for data-driven research and health in order to address increasing health information access and use.
MedlinePlus Tutorial for Librarians and Health Educators
This interactive, narrated tutorial provides a tour of the MedlinePlus website and explains why MedlinePlus is a trusted reference when answering health information questions.
This tutorial takes about 1 hour to complete.