This 60 minute online class will provide participants information on access resources to help them become more knowledgeable about using DOCLINE. The class will focus on the where DOCLINE users can go to get help, who can assist them, and how to stay current with new versions of DOCLINE.

This 60 minute online class will provide an overview of DOCLINE's Serial Holdings. Participants will be provided with an introduction to the Serial Holdings database, how to add, remove, and update Holdings, how to run reports, and where to go to get additional resources. This class is for beginning level DOCLINE users but all DOCLINE users are welcome to attend! Be sure to have your user ID and password to your DOCLINE account ready before you attend this class

This conference will gather together clinicians, educators, researchers, policymakers, and others who have strong understanding of various research programs and best practices used in the low health literacy challenge. These presenters will provide an overview of their best practices, programs and research, discuss these applications in a primary care setting, and teach attendees skill sets to better serve their clients. Attendees will be is session where they have lecture, powerpoint presentaion workshops.

This course has been developed as part of NN/LM’s Emergency Preparedness & Response initiative. The desired outcomes for the class are to raise awareness of the need for emergency preparedness and response planning and to provide tools for enhancing preparedness specifically for medical librarians. The class consists of an informative and engaging PowerPoint presentation, interspersed with several interactive portions. Participants will learn how to conduct a basic risk assessment for their libraries, how to craft a basic emergency preparedness plan, strategies for continuing library services from off-site, and options for obtaining assistance, both web-based resources and via the NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response structure.

The “Library Without Walls” course is designed to guide students through the process of developing a web portal for online services and resources. The goal of the class is to show medical libraries how to bring their collection from within the traditional physical library walls to users’ desktops in this age of digital and online information. Topics discussed will be: • Basic overview of web portals. • How web portals are used in the medical library. • Evaluating collection needs of a web portal. • Design and Technical issues of creating a web portal. • Marketing and Training of newly created web portal. • Lessons Learned • Web Portal Planning (class activity) By the end of the class, students will: 1. Understand what web portals are and why they are necessary. 2. Know how to plan, design and implement a web portal. 3. Know how to market, train and evaluate web portals. **This course was evaluated at MLA '09 and scored an overall course grade of 3.556 on a 4.0 scale. The mean score for all evaluated courses taught at MLA ’09 was 3.792 on a 4.0 scale.

This workshop will help librarians and anyone interested in health information outreach to focus on what they want to accomplish: to plan their programs around their intended results. Participants will learn to construct logic models to plan health information outreach projects, with project outcomes as the pivotal part of the plan. In this workshop, participants will learn how to create logic models, then write objectives and evaluation plans based on their logic models. A well-constructed logic model pulls together a picture of how resources and planned activities will lead to outcome achievement, providing a perfect framework for developing funding proposals. The logic model also is useful at other stages of a project, such as reviewing strategies and writing final reports. The workshop will combine lecture with interactive group exercises where participants develop a logic model, then use the logic model to write objectives and develop an evaluation plan.

Geeks Bearing Gifts: New Technology Trends is intended to provide a fun, fast-paced, and informative introduction to and update on today’s hottest technology trends. Program participants will be able to identify technology trends and they will understand how these trends will impact or can be integrated into traditional library services. Content will be presented in with a “can-do” focus intended to encourage participants to investigate at least one technology for implementation in their institution. Course structure will include brief vignettes and demonstrations of a wide variety of technologies. Some of the topics to be covered include RSS, spyware, developments in mobile computing, blogs and wikis, social bookmarking, radio-frequency identification, and more. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Unwrapping New Technology Trends Online is intended to provide an introduction to and update on today’s hottest technology trends with an emphasis on social media and collaboration. Participants will be able to identify technology trends and understand how these trends will affect or can be integrated into traditional library services. Some of the topics to be covered include RSS, spyware, developments in mobile computing, blogs and wikis, social bookmarking and more.

This course provides an introduction to two of the most important movements in nursing – evidence based practice and magnet recognition. Evidence based practice is an established part of health care but many still do not know how to easily define or apply it. Magnet Recognition is one of the hottest topics in nursing today. The numbers of hospitals that have achieved Magnet Recognition status has almost tripled in the past four years.

If you work with nursing faculty & students and/or nurse managers & staff, this course will help you develop your search skills, so that you can improve search services for these groups. In addition to databases and searching, it includes discussion of teaching and collaboration skills. The course includes a model for evidence based searching, overview of nursing terminology, and practice searching MEDLINE, CINAHL, and Mosby's Nursing Index. Learners are expected to contribute to online discussions in a timely manner.

The goal of this class is to increase understanding of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Students will learn about the history of CAM and its impact on medical practices. They will learn how CAM is used, how to avoid “bad science” and how to look up evidence of the effectiveness of CAM therapies. This class is offered for 2 hours or 4 hours. Both classes will include lecture, discussion, and hands-on training.