Teaching Tips Booklet Now Available

Need to do a presentation or teach a group? Want to learn more about adult learning principles, instructional design and incorporating technology into your training? For some ideas on engaging your audience take a look at this recent compilation of tips from the Training Office of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. The booklet is free to download.

Websites Referenced

https://nnlm.gov/sites/default/files/u203/BookletInteractiveVersion.pdf

https://news.nnlm.gov/nto/2018/06/18/read-our-teaching-tips-booklet/

https://nnlm.gov/nto/guides/teaching-resources-tips/teaching-tips-booklet

https://nnlm.gov/nto

NLM Associate Fellow Visits TSRHC Libraries

The TSRHC hospital libraries were visited by representatives of the National Library of Medicine today. Tyler Moses, an NLM Associate Fellow, came to north Texas to spend time at the National Network of Libraries South Central Region (NNLM SCR) headquarters. Dan Burgard is Director of the NNLM SCR program, which is based at the Lewis Library at UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth and supports 5 states.

While at the hospital Moses and Burgard met with Mary Peters (Medical Library) and with Mary Anne Fernandez and Jill Johnson (Family Resource Center) to tour the Brandon Carrell Medical Library and the Christi Carter Urschel Family Resource Center. Moses has just completed her Fort Worth visit and will now visit the UT Southwestern Library in Dallas for several day

The NLM Associate Fellowship Program is a highly selective one year postgraduate training opportunity at the NLM in Bethesda, Maryland. Moses is one of only 4 fellows in the class of 2016-17. The program provides a broad foundation in heath sciences information services as preparation for future leadership roles in health sciences libraries and in health services research.  

photo by Rick Smith, TSRHC Communications

Websites Referenced

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/training/associate/meettheassociates.html

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/training/associate/

https://nnlm.gov/scr

So Your Poster Got Accepted! Webinar Provides Great Design TIps from Rice Professor

This is a concentrated education in creating an exceptional poster!

“So Your Poster Got Accepted–Now What? Poster Design Tips,” is a 1-hour recorded free webinar now available in the SCR CONNECTions archives (4-11-2012) along with tip sheets.

Tracy Volz, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer of Professional Communication at The Rice Center for Engineering Leadership at Rice University, shares excellent and detailed tips on laying out and telling your story. She reviews poster design principles to help you enable people to understand your key points. She also discusses the process of presenting your poster in person.

One hour of Medical Library Association CE credit will be available through April 25, 2012, by using the URL at the end of the recording, provided by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region office.

Websites referenced
http://nnlm.gov/scr/training/webmeeting.html#Archives
http://engineering.rice.edu/content.aspx?id=1266
http://nnlm.gov/scr/