 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. The show is broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week and then post the archive recording on our website. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of those recordings. We do include both the recorded show as posted up to the Library Commission's YouTube channel and any slides or handouts or documents that any presenters have. So these slides that Alicia is doing right now, later she'll be sending to me and then we'll post them up along with the archive. So I think we had mentioned this when we did our test earlier. You don't have to worry about scrolling down any URLs or websites or anything. You will have access to all of that afterwards. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live, book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, demos of services and products, things that we think libraries may be interested in. And at the Nebraska Library Commission, we are the state agency for libraries in the state and that is all types of libraries. So you will find things on our show and in our archives for public libraries, K-12, academic schools, museums, correctional facilities all across the board. Basically, if it's a library, we'll have something on the show about it. That's really our only criteria. We do sometimes have Nebraska Library Commission staff that come on and do things that are very specific to what we are doing here at the Library Commission or offering to our libraries in the state, but we also bring guest speakers. And that's what we have this morning on the line with us this morning from just down south, from us in Kansas, is Alicia Lilik and she is at, good morning, Alicia. Morning. And she's one of the library staff associated with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine through the US National Library of Medicine. And I don't know, are you going to explain exactly how that organization works? Yes, I will. We, she's joining us from Kansas. We do have our own staff that do do this here in Nebraska as well. Each state has their own person. Our particular person here in Nebraska, Robin Woods was unable to join us this morning. So we got Alicia, she got Alicia and she was graciously agreed to fill in for her for today. So maybe on another, sometime in the future we'll get to meet Robin. But this morning, we have some health education resources that are available through the National Network of Libraries of Medicine and how libraries can use that. So I'll just share now and let you take it away, Alicia. Thank you so much. So yes, as mentioned, my name's Alicia Lilik. I'm a medical librarian and I work for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine in their mid-continental region. And my official job title is the Kansas Outreach and Technology Coordinator. It's a bit of a mouthful. But basically my job is to provide outreach and training on health information resources. So that's what I'm here to do today. So as mentioned, these slides will be made available to you. So there's no need to rush and write down all those URLs. But if at any point you have questions, need me to repeat something, feel free to chime in in the chat. And I'd be happy to address that. This isn't like a formal lecture. I'm just trying to share some good information with you. Yep, anytime you guys can type into the questions section, it's called questions and you go to a webinar interface, type in there. I'm monitoring it here on my side and I can read over to those questions. Also, I should say, I didn't say it at the beginning, if you have a microphone, you can also use your microphone to ask your questions. Just instead type in, I have a mic, please unmute me. And you can ask your question that way. Yeah, feel free to dive right in. So our organization's a little confusing. So I'm gonna actually start off with some background information on that and how it works. And then we'll actually get into the bulk of the presentation. So I found this really great chart that really just kind of breaks down who we are. It's like in the whole overview of government health information. So at the top of the chart is the National Institutes of Health. And this is the nation's premier research institute. There's actually 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health. And one of those centers is the National Library of Medicine. Now the National Library of Medicine isn't the library for the National Institutes of Health. Instead, it's the biomedical library for everyone in the country. And it is the world's largest medical library. It's located in Bethesda, Maryland, but it has a vast amount of resources that are made available online to anyone everywhere in the world. And one of the ways that the National Library of Medicine tries to reach out to people throughout the country is through the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. So we're kind of the boots on the ground outreach librarians that support health information access throughout the entire country. There are actually eight regional medical libraries in five offices. And those regional medical libraries are based out of a university health science library. And they serve to really help out the very distinct needs of each region. So you can kind of see on this map here, we're spread out pretty far. And our region is region number four, right, smack dab, in the middle of the country. And the National Network of Libraries of Medicine doesn't just serve the continental US. We have services to any US state and territory. And then our resources are freely available to anyone in the world. So they can be used to support people in other countries. That's not a problem. So my region where I work out of is a little bit unique. We serve six states, and it's a pretty vast amount of space. We go from Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. And we serve all of these states, but we've noticed that each state is pretty unique. So unlike all the other regions, we actually have a coordinator in each state in our region. So I serve in Kansas, and then Robin Woods is the Nebraska coordinator. But our main office is based out of the University of Utah and Salt Lake City. So you mentioned that the different local ones are at the different health sciences libraries. And just for those of you in Nebraska, Robin is actually at Creighton University's Health Sciences Library up in Omaha. That's where she's based out of. That's correct, yes. And so you can find information on our website to learn more about our organization. For the MCR, it's nnlm.gov. Slash MCR. If you're not from within our region, if you just go to nnlm.gov, it will actually tell you which region you are in to help you find that information. Okay, so now that I've given you some background on the nnlm, and I'm gonna use a lot of acronyms, so feel free to chime in if I am confusing you with that. But just gonna tell you about our objectives for this webinar today. The first thing I wanna do is really help you develop skills and knowledge of current trends in health literacy and how that impacts librarianship. Then I'm going to increase your awareness of National Library of Medicine resources on general health, drug information, also environmental health. And then at the end, I'll give a brief overview of the nnlm resources that can support your library specifically. So to start off with, I'm gonna talk a little bit about consumer health and health literacy. And it's good to start with the definition because you're gonna hear these terms come up a bit. Consumer health refers to all the things that are related to the health of the individual consumer or the actual user of health services. So if you go to the doctor, if you talk to a nurse, if you get a flu shot, you're a health consumer. And that's probably everyone here with, it's not very easy to not be a health consumer this day and age. So we talk a lot about consumer health resources. Consumer health information includes materials that are written for the layperson and they're not technical in nature. So these are easy to understand materials. But an individual patient layperson doesn't really usually identify as a health consumer. So they're not really sure what it means when you say, oh, let me show you this consumer health website or this consumer health information resource. So it's kind of an internal jargon, but it does get used a lot. So I wanted to start off just spelling that out for you. And then the next big definition that's important to know about is health literacy. This is related a lot to information literacy, which is librarians we know a lot about. But health literacy is specific to an individual's degree to understand and obtain, communicate, process basic health information and services in order to make appropriate health decisions. So there's a lot involved in this definition, but in the general, health literacy is, how can they actually understand their own health and make those decisions? A lot goes into health literacy. For someone to have adequate health literacy, there's a lot that they need to be able to do. Think about what goes on when you try and make a doctor's appointment or make a health decision. In the first place, you need to actually be able to access healthcare services. So you need to know, how do I make a doctor's appointment? How do I know if they work with my health insurance? How do I know if this is a situation where I should go to the emergency room or visit my physician or go to a walk-in clinic? A lot of health decisions require you to analyze relative risks and benefits. Are the side effects of this medication worth the benefits of it? Or maybe should I consider the surgery? Something you might need to do is calculate a dosage. That can be complicated. You have to be able to communicate with healthcare providers, which is not always easy. Evaluate information that you receive for credibility and quality. Someone told me, oh, I got this really great article from my aunt on this herbal supplement that's gonna cure cancer. How do you, as an individual, know if that's credible quality information? Someone might need to interpret health results or just locate health information. Some other things I was thinking of when I looked at this list that are important for health literacy could be understanding nutrition labels. That's always a difficult task. Something that I've struggled with is completing a family health history form. And then something I'm sure we've all struggled with is selecting appropriate health insurance. Making that difficult decision on which plan to choose or which plan am I eligible for. So when you think about all of these different tasks that could be involved in health literacy, there's different parts of health literacy you need to have in order to complete those. You need to be visually literate, able to understand graphs or visual information. You may need to be computer literate. If this is online health information, you have to be able to actually operate a computer to locate it. You need to be information literate, be able to find that information, understand it, evaluate it. A lot of health information, you need to be numerically or computationally literate. Can you calculate or reason numerically? So a good example of utilizing these skills that I thought of that instantly came to mind is when I had a baby and she had a fever, I needed to give her Tylenol. So there was a lot of tasks involved in figuring out how much Tylenol to give my baby. First, I had to find an infant Tylenol dosage chart. And so I had to go online and search for this chart because it wasn't on the box or it wasn't on the bottle that I had. So I had to go online and find the correct dosage chart because it has changed in the last few years. And a chart for infants is broken down by age and weight. So I had to go through the chart, figure out the age and weight. And I had to read the small fine print on the chart that said that you should actually be calculating based on weight first, then age. So since my daughter was a little chubby, she was at a higher weight than her age. Then I looked at the little plunger I had and to get the correct amount of Tylenol into the plunger, I had to do some math because the plunger was too small for the dosage I needed. So I had to do two different dosages. So I had to do all of this if I had to look at graphs, I had to operate a computer, I had to make sure that information was correct and I had to do some actual math to figure out how much to give her. And this was not an easy task and I was very nervous about it. And I'm a medical librarian that deals with this kind of stuff all the time. So there's a lot that's involved in health literacy. And like I said, health literacy, it can impact anyone but limited health literacy especially impacts some very vulnerable people, older adults, racial and ethnic minorities, people with a less than high school degree or a GED certificate, people with low income levels, non-native speakers of English, people with compromised health status or people with learning obstacles. They're already having some issues and then they have to deal with this low health literacy that can really impact their health. So the medical field is really starting to look into addressing limited health literacy and they are making a lot of progress but they're not quite there. This quote I thought was really interesting. I say that patients with limited literacy when compared to those with adequate literacy more often report that their doctors use words they don't understand, speak too fast, don't provide enough information about medical conditions and fail to make certain that they understand their health problems. So these doctors are just yapp yapp yapp in a way given all this maybe highly detailed information and they're not really checking to make sure the patient understands. So what does this mean to you as a librarian? Well, a patron with a health question or looking for health information they might be embarrassed to admit that they have low literacy or low health literacy levels. A lot of times they're facing communication or language barriers and they may be dealing with health issues that result in being shy, embarrassed, they may be angry, worried or rational or difficult to comprehend. So like in any reference interaction you should always try and be approachable, non-judgmental, empathetic, respectful and just know your audience. So a good tool to keep in mind is this document called Everyday Words for Public Health Communication which is published by the Centers for Disease Control. And they share this, I found this pretty funny tweet, a picture of a street sign and it says, no person chow on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday the day proceeding a public holiday or on a public holiday drive or caused to be driven between the hours of 6 p.m. at midnight a motor vehicle which exceeds 10.5 meters in length and all main roads. So this is quite a sign, what does it mean? You can sit there and try and parse this for a really long time. And a lot of health information feels like that. You know, if you have gotten a prescription and you've ever tried to read that packet that comes with it and you're trying to understand what it means you're faced with a lot of language like this. So the CDC has worked really hard on making sure that the information they put out is written in plain language that anyone can understand. So some tips that they provide for communicating with your audience in a way they understand the first time is to really organize to serve the audience. And I think these are really great tips if you're ever putting together a health page on your library website, thinking about what language to use when during a reference interaction, maybe helping create a resource or planning a health outreach event. But you wanna make sure you actually know your audience. It's made for their level. You need to choose your words carefully. They say to write or talk in the active voice. Use you and other pronouns. Choose words and numbers your audience knows and make information easy to find. Keep it simple, short and simple and easy to parse. And an example from their document here, they actually take common use jargon words, medical words and show how they originally were used in CDC materials and then how they updated it in plain language. So the first example is the word activate. And activate, which means begin, start. They have a sentence that it said, if the worker does not exit or enter properly, a foot or hand control may be activated and may cause movement of lift arms, bucket or other attachment. That's gonna be really hard for someone to understand. It's kind of hard for me to picture. But in the next sentence, the plain language sentence, it says, you must get in or out in a safe manner or you may accidentally start a foot or hand control that moves the lift arms, bucket or other attachment. So much easier to understand what they're trying to say here. That makes a lot more sense, yes. And why doesn't say that in the first place, right? Yeah. And it's another example here is they're talking about the term acute. And in the original sentence, they said, mumps is an acute viral illness. Most people don't exactly know what that means. And it's pretty vague actually. We know it's a sudden, it says acute means a sickness that lasts a short time and goes away. But when they redid this plain language sentence, they said mumps usually causes the following symptoms for about seven to 10 days. So not only is it more plain language, but it's more specific too. So these are really, it's a really great tool to utilize for any type of health language materials. So now that you have some background on health literacy, consumer health, I'm gonna dive into some National Library of Medicine resources. So there is actually a page that you can go to to see all of the National Library of Medicine online resources. At this point, I believe there's like over 280 different resources available from the National Library of Medicine. A lot of these are really specialized databases for researchers or APIs that you probably won't ever need to use, that I don't really even ever know much about. But I'm gonna focus on five really great consumer level resources. MedlinePlus, HealthReach, DailyMed, Pillbox and ToxTown. But if you do follow the link in the previous slide, this is what this page looks like. It's their eResources page. And you can actually go through here to find even training and instructional materials. If you ever wanna do a program about some of these resources, those tools are in here as well. But you can go through and kind of see all of the different topics that National Library of Medicine online resources could cover. So I'm gonna start with MedlinePlus. MedlinePlus is National Library of Medicine's premier consumer health resource. It covers a whole lot of information that really is a kind of a one-stop shop for health information. I compare it often to WebMD, which is a very popular for-profit website. But unlike WebMD, MedlinePlus doesn't have ads or sponsorships. So you can kind of feel a little more comfortable with this information. And what's in MedlinePlus? Well, they have some licensed content. There's a medical encyclopedia. They actually have surgery videos. They have drug information and dietary supplement information. There's original content. They have health topic summaries. They have these, this is pretty new. They have lab test monographs that explain different lab tests. And they have magazine articles. And then there are, the bulk of the information you're gonna find on here is external web links. So these, they link out on health topics and health information to federal government websites, medical association resources, information from national organizations and health institutions. And these are all very heavily vetted for accuracy and currency. So this is a look at the MedlinePlus homepage and I'll kind of break it down for you. So first off are health topics. These are the most popular part of the page where you can find information on all different types of health topics. Then there's a drug and supplement section. So here you can learn about not just prescription drugs but over-the-counter medicines and then herbal medications and supplements. And I think this is really important if people are coming to you and saying, I need information on St. John's work. If you do a search for that or you try and find information online about herbal supplements, a lot of that is very difficult to find reliable information. So this is a really great tool for that. There are videos and tools. There are some like health quizzes. There are surgical videos. I've watched several of them before I had a knee surgery last year. And there's all games, anything you can kind of look at for just something fun to do. I mentioned the lab test information. This is pretty new. We've had this for less than six months but you can help people understand what the lab tests are for and what the results actually mean. There's a medical encyclopedia, a great tool for just how do you pronounce this word and what does this actually mean? And then my favorite thing about Medline Plus is that it is fully available and in English and Spanish. So at the top of every page, if you're on the English version, there's a link that says Espanol. If you click on that, it will reload the entire website exactly the same but fully in Spanish. And in addition to the Spanish language resources, there's a link at the bottom of the homepage for health information in multiple languages. So this is a good place to go for that and I'll show you another resource and just a bit for health information in other languages. And then there are also easy to read materials. So these are like handouts that are written at a very easy to understand level. Everything from how do I properly wash my hands to what is asthma. There are just these very simple materials that can really help if someone's having trouble comprehending even the information on this site. And so I'm gonna start with showing you the health topics. So if you click on the health topics, where the arrow is or at the tab at the top, it brings you to this page. Now you can search for health topics, you can browse alphabetically or you can take a look at how they're broken down. So health topics, yeah, again, you can do A to Z. You can look by body locations or systems. This is really good for, maybe you have a student doing a project, they wanna get some more information that way. Disorders and conditions, diagnosis and therapy. They have health topics specifically for different demographic groups and then just general health and wellness topics. So we're gonna click on food and nutrition and go into the nutrition health topic page. So each health topic page is kind of laid out in the same way. At the top it has a menu that really breaks down what's available and this varies based on what resources are available on the topic. So it starts always with a summary of what the health topic page is actually about. And then it has a start here section which is where you go to get the most accurate resources. Where should you start to learn more about this? And then they'll have different resources where you can learn more about it. If there are videos or tools, you can click on that. Medline Plus does link to actual scholarly research as well. So if you have someone that wants more in-depth information you can link them to statistics and research. The journal articles link will actually bring them into accurate journal articles from PubMed. There's a reference desk, there's actually a find an expert tool to help find like organizations that are active in this area. And then if there are resources specific to different audiences, maybe teenagers, children, men, women, elderly, they'll be linked under the for you section. So the top searches in 2018 haven't been released yet but let's give you an idea for 2017. Looks like a lot of people are looking up sexually transmitted diseases, both in English and Spanish and Chlamydia infections. So maybe these are folks that are uncomfortable with this topic, talking to other people about it. So they wanna go online and search on Medline Plus. But this covers the gamut, diabetes, cholesterol, breathing problems, thyroid disease, depression. It covers a little bit of everything. And there are actually over a thousand help topic pages on Medline Plus. So I mentioned earlier that there's another good resource for information for in non-English. So health reach is a really great tool. It's a collaboration we do with a couple of different groups for patient education materials that are in multiple languages. And I believe they have over 40 different languages represented on this website. So you can actually search by language. I know this has come up a lot with some of the areas that we serve that have a lot of refugee population. They are really struggling to find resources to help them understand a health topic. So health reach is a really great resource for that. You can search by language. They have not just handouts, but they also have videos, even audio files. And we have a really great new opportunity on health reach where we partnered with a group called Healthy Roads Media to produce this collection of materials on the opioid crisis. There's 22 easy to read handouts, videos, audio recordings, both available in English and Spanish that really break down opioid, opioid abuse, treatment. And so health reach has this information listed right on their homepage. And I know that's a topic of interest in a lot of libraries right now. So that's something, a great place you can go for that information. So next I'm gonna show you DailyMed. DailyMed is actually, it's pretty interesting. You know those, I mentioned earlier those big documents you get with your prescription medication, the FDA labels or package inserts is what they call them. So DailyMed is the official provider of those. This is where anyone can go to find that information. So you know, someone comes in and says, I have this pill bottle. I don't even know what this is for or I have this big list of medication. How do I find more about it? DailyMed is a great resource for that. And it does link to other resources as well to find more information on medication. So this is what the homepage looks like. And then I have a short little video that shows you how it works. So you can start off by just typing in any information and it will pull up a dropdown. So you search for it and you get over to this page and you can actually pull up the package photos. You make sure you have the right medication. It looks like this package here. Zoom in around and find all that information. And then it has all the different sections on the drug label. So you know, you wanna find out what the side effects are. What do you do if you accidentally take too much? How do you store it? It's all available here. On this one website. So you can kind of scroll around here. You can download the whole thing. You can break it down into different sections. And it has this nice little printout too. And I know folks that take a lot of medications like have this and just get this for all their medications and keep it with them. That's really awesome, especially. They cram so much on those boxes. And I'm always trying to find the part that I want. Oh, no, it's around here. I know you have to take off the label and look on the inside or, yeah. Like a treasure. Horrible. So yeah, it's, oh, sorry, it's playing again. Let's stop that. Okay. So another link here is to the Tablet Capsule ID Tool. I don't know why they call it something different on DailyMed, but you can also go directly to Pillbox. And Pillbox is a fabulous website. This is for those times when you go, I found this medication and I don't know what it is. School nurses love this resource because they're often the ones that are handed a baggie of pills that were found in the bathroom and they have to decide, what is this? What do I do with this? Is this a serious issue or did someone bring ibuprofen to school and forget to tell us? So Pillbox helps you quickly identify medications based on all different kinds of factors. So I'm gonna show you what that looks like here. Pretty simple to do. So it has little dropdowns. You can choose whichever one you want. So Imprint's a really great one. If there's a couple of letters on the pill, you can just kind of type that in. You can also search by shape. There's all different kinds. Color, I don't know who would know the inactive ingredient, but it's there if you wanted to search for it. And it combines those different facets to tell you what a medication is. And then if you actually click on that medication, it will bring you back into the Daily Med so you can learn more about that pill that you may not have known you had or found. So I think this is just a really good tool to be aware of. Oh, and it's playing it again. Let's go. So the last NLM resource I'm gonna show you is ToxTown. This is an environmental health resource. And it's geared maybe a little, maybe I'd say high school age and older, maybe some older middle school, but it's basic consumer level information about everyday locations and situations where people might be exposed to toxic chemicals. So it helps you understand risks of exposure, potential health effects, and how to protect yourself. So ToxTown has all kinds of great information. You can use it to understand key concepts and terms related to environmental health and toxicology. You can find guides and toolkits to help you take action to minimize exposure and find resources for making that connection between environment and health. So as students come in, that might be working on some environmental health projects or maybe your community is involved in a citizen science project looking at water pollution. This is just a really great resource. And they do have a lot of tools for teachers. Shown on this page is a video called Silent But Leslie. And it's just a knockoff of superheroes, understanding the dangers of lead. So it's just another really great resource to be aware of if you're ever working with environmental health topics. All right, so now I'm gonna talk about the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and I'll talk about information specific to our region and beyond it. So the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, our mission is to advance the progress of medicine and improve public health. And we try to provide all health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and try and get the public to have access to that information so they can make better decisions. So we're spread out across the country, and I think there's really three main things that we try to do. We do training sessions like this one where we've raised awareness of National Library of Medicine resources and other health information that resources you may need to know about. We offer funding on a variety of health related projects and we're a network. So folks can learn from each other, make connections, see what cool stuff one library might be working on and see about how they can implement it into their own program. So to give you a little taste, I thought I'd share some upcoming educational opportunities that might be of interest to you. And all of, not all of our classes, but most of our classes are provide continuing education credits from the Medical Library Association if that's of interest to you. So we offer our webinars nationally. They're open to anyone. You don't have to sign up, they're free. We usually ask that you register in advance just so we know who's coming and can prepare for that. So coming up, gosh, tomorrow is a course, a one hour webinar called Getting Started with Information Outreach in Your Community. And this is just a course to help librarians initiate outreach programs with different populations. So we'll talk about locating community demographics, how you develop relationships, the basics of building and developing community-based partnerships and the importance of cultural competency. So that's a really great webinar coming up tomorrow. And if you miss it, you can still follow this link and it will all be recorded and available via YouTube for you to watch at your convenience. Another great program, oops, went too far. Another interesting webinar that's coming up is on Tuesday, April 2nd. And this is the summer, they're talking about the Summer Library Programming and Library Moonwalk. So NNLM as an organization has partnered with the Collaborative Summer Learning Program to help bring health programming to libraries for summer reading. So they've come up with this universe of stories booklet and it's coming to public libraries this summer and celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. So they have resources and information and then they have some programming ideas, things like exploring DNA and family history, how to make stardust, astronaut food and many more science programs that are appropriate for kids, teens and adults. And then this webinar is also gonna talk about the Library Moonwalk. This is a really fun program from upstate New York. So they said a walk from their area to the moon is approximately 238, 900 miles. But they're come up with this program from a whole bunch of different library systems where they've received some funding from NNLM to get their patrons moving, dancing, learning about health and wellness and they're logging their steps, their miles to try and reach that 238, 900 miles. So the whole region is trying to walk to the moon. It's their Library Moonwalk. And that's- I was wondering what that was gonna be. That's very creative, I like that. Yeah, it's a really fun program. And it's something that you might be able to emulate in your library to think about how could we come up with a cool program like this? And we do offer funding for programming of that nature. Similar to that on April 3rd, is a webinar on music and movement at the library. And this was a program that we helped fund for interactive music-based programming for infants and toddlers. And this was from the Mount Zion District Library in Illinois. They really didn't really have much activities for their under two-year-olds. So they decided to add a music and movement program for children ages six to 24 months and their caregivers. And they do things like, you know, participate in singing interactive songs, investigate instruments like drums and xylophones. They're learning sign language. And it's a fun program, but educational and full of benefits. So this webinar, they're gonna talk about how you can learn to implement a similar program at your library and you don't need to have any background in music. And then if I sparked some interest in health literacy when I talked about it earlier, on Monday, April 8th is a class on health literacy. It's important to you. And, you know, how do you learn more about health literacy? Do you wanna learn more about how it impacts patient care and will affect healthcare in the future? This is a good webinar for you. But we offer, you know, maybe not a hundred, yeah, probably hundreds of these webinars throughout the network and they're all open to anyone. It doesn't matter where you're located. You can always jump in and check out some of these programs. This is just a little bit of a taste. Follow any of these links. You'll be on our training page and you can see many, many more. And then they're all recorded as well for if you can't make it on the dates that they're actually broadcast live. Absolutely, yes, that's correct. And one other series of courses I wanted to highlight is PubMed for Librarians. This is a very, very popular course and this is something that, you know, if you ever are working with PubMed, I feel like it's a little more complicated than other databases. And there's, because there's a lot more that goes into it. So if you ever wanna really get some in-depth information on PubMed, this series is offered, I think it's twice a year. They just started it yesterday, but this will be recorded. And these are five 90-minute segments presented via Webex. They're recorded for future viewing. They're standalone modules. And you can sign up and take them to learn about how PubMed is used. So that's just a cool little tool for you to be aware of. So I mentioned funding and right now in MCR, we do have a little bit of professional development funding left. So, you know, if you're a librarian in our region and you wanna, our fiscal year ends April 30th, but if you have something you wanna do very quickly, watch a webinar that costs money, we can help support you with that. And we offer this every year. It'll start again in May. We really are trying to help everyone advance and grow and learn more about health information. Another really great funding opportunity we have is that we're offering sponsorships for the Medical Library Association's Consumer Health Information Specialization. So this is a specialization. It's basically like an award you can get to show that you are a good person that understands consumer health, you have a good background in it. And to get the certificate, you have to complete a minimum of 12 continuing education credits and consumer health information. So, generally, usually this award costs, I think it's like $125, but we're offering sponsorships at least for the next couple of years until we run out of funds for it. For anyone who's in, anywhere in the US that wants to take these courses for free to get the certification. And that looks really good for your library to say, you know, I have staff trained and this specialization looks good for you. It's a good thing to add to your resume. So that's something that we're offering right now and into the future that you may be interested in. And then I thought I'd just point out some of our upcoming funding opportunities from the mid-continental region. So I mentioned our fiscal year starts in May. So it runs May to April. And we're about to announce our new funding opportunities. So I'd give you a little sneak peek. We have a lot of different awards to help you do different things. So maybe you have an idea you wanna collaborate on a program or a project with a community group, a school or a different library in your area. We have funding for that. If you have some public library programs that are health or nutrition related, we can help you fund that. Maybe you wanna try out Citizen Science where folks in your library are actually participating in scientific research. There are a lot of programs like monitoring, water quality or air pollution. We can help fund that. If you have technology that's used for health information access that needs to be upgraded or an idea for a new technology you wanna utilize, that's an option. If you wanna promote diversity related to health in some way, that's another award we have. And then we're also providing some awards to help you engage in planning or conduct research. So if you wanna do a deep dive on the health needs of your community or plan for future health programming, that's something new we're trying to offer this year. But if you're not in our region or you wanna just see all the different funding opportunities, we have an NNLM funding page that you can actually go through and search for. You can filter by your region or by the category or by keyword. So I'm gonna stop there and open it up to questions. Okay. Okay, does anybody have any questions? Please do go ahead and type them into your, go to open our questions section of your interface there. I'm just getting it open here for myself. All right, so far nobody had any questions during your presentation while you're talking. That's fine. I think it was a lot of really good information out here both as I was watching and I was going down some personal things for me to use these like the drug information, as you mentioned and just, I like that it is, that's like Medline Plus, is there out there free for everyone to use? There are so many people including me and being a librarian, I do it, who Google for whatever they are looking for something, just stuff about me, my family. I do see the web MD things that come up along with all sorts of other, the association for whatever disease or symptom. And it's hard sometimes to tell are they really that association? Are they some company just trying to sell me their resource or drug or treatment? And knowing that Medline Plus, that's the one, look through all these search results and go to there or just go there to start with. I mean, I think that's the education thing that we as librarians have to do is have classes or something that says, looking for health info, go here, don't just Google. If you know how to filter through all of the hundreds of results you get, sure, like us as librarians have that skill, but my mom, my, yeah, she's not gonna know. Yeah. So call me, but when she's on her own. I like to point people at that. And I wish things like, and I don't have to say, when I do do, I mean, Medline Plus is public out there, but I don't know that it comes up in general searches. It does, but it's usually kind of low in the results, unfortunately, because we don't have an advertising budget. So it's not. And I think it presents, I'd actually say, like in the URL, NLM or something like that, or some government beginning of the URL to know, okay, this is something the official, not just who knows who, but it's not. And the nice thing is, if you are, if you do come across an organizational website, you can check on Medline Plus to see if that's someone that they link to, because that shows that they've already vetted it, and that's really helpful. But yeah, I think even if we're super information literate, when it comes to health issues, you're not always at your top game. You're a little panicky or you're hoping to find, you wanna find that link that tells you what you wanna hear. We've all heard that point. Some things are already wrong is the reason you're looking it up. When you're healthy and doing fine, you don't necessarily go and look up heart disease, just because you wanna know just in case. Just because you have a diagnosis or your doctor has said something or you're feeling some symptoms that you're not sure about. I mean, you're already stressed out and yeah. Well, I will say, I put up a slide here. So if you are in Nebraska, Robin Woods is your Nebraska Outreach Coordinator. And she does education as well. She is a fabulous trainer. She's really great at collaboration. She's based out of Creighton University. And if you need help and you're in Nebraska, you can always reach out to me also. I'm happy to help, but Robin's your go-to. And if you're not in Nebraska and if you're outside the MCR, you can also go to the nnnlm.gov website to locate your region and find your coordinators there because there's a big group of us. There's, I think there's 100 people in all in the entire network. And we are happy and willing to help out in any way we can. And Robin will come to your library or your event to do presentation. That's actually how I got on her radar. Someone here attended a session, I think it was last fall that she presented at. And then one of our staff people here at the Nebraska Library Commission, and they brought me her card, I have her card here actually, and said, hey, this was a great session. You should contact her. And I did. And that's how we ended up with this session finally. So she's gone to some of our library. So if you have something, you know, if you're not sure that you have the expertise to teach about this as a presentation, that's something that she could come and do on your behalf. Yeah. For you. That's correct. Yeah. All right. So it doesn't look anybody has any other questions and we're getting close to the top of the hour. Any last words, Alicia, that you wanna throw out there before we wrap it up? I think that's it. Thanks to everyone for coming. Yeah. This is a lot of great information. I know we've had people on Encompass Live before previous staff people before Robin and one over the years. I always like to get updates on what's going on because there's always new things coming in. So this is kind of a regular thing for those of you who watch the show. So we'll always, you know, I have to talk to Robin at some point. We'll definitely get her on the show. She can make it before us. So in the future, there'll be some more. So always keep an eye on if this is something that you're interested in at your library. Look at our archives of previous ones but keep your eye open for other new ones we may have in the future. And as we said, the slides, Alicia's gonna be sending them to me. So when we get the recording up, you'll have that and within those slides, you saw those links to all the different webinars that are coming up and everything, you'll have the quick links to all of those afterwards. So thank you very much, Alicia, for being with us this morning and filling in and then joining us up here. And thank you everyone for attending. I'm going to pull the screen back to mine here. And there we go. So this is the session for today, but the recording will be up, let's see here, there we go. I would say by the end of the day today, as long as, we also post our archives, our recordings to YouTube. And as long as go to our YouTube, cooperate with me. By the end of the day today, these are upcoming shows, but if you go to the underneath there, there's a link to our archives. And this is where we have all of our previous shows on here. And this is the one from last week, where we will have the same thing of you to link the recording and a link to the presentation that you'll be able to access. Everyone who attended this morning live or registered, will get an email from me letting you know when it's ready. We also posted out to our mailing lists and our social media as well. Now while I'm here on the archives, I'll let you know, this is, we have a search feature here. This is 2019 is actually the 11th year of Encompass Live. And we have all of our archives here on this page. This is a very long page, going all the way back to the first one, which was in January 2009. So we do have a search feature at the top here. You can search for the entire history of the show, if you want to, or just the most recent year. But do be aware whenever you do bring anything up, look at the date, make sure when it took place. There will be old information, outdated information, links, services might not exist anymore at work. But we are librarians, so this is what we do. We are collecting archive things. So just pay attention when you are looking at our website at the dates to know what the topic is about. So that's for today. So I hope you join us next week on our topic is non-profit basics for libraries. We have our Trevor Peterson, who's from a law firm here in Lincoln will be joining us to cover some of these things if you need to know information about fundraising in Texas and interlocal agreements, all sorts of things. Anything related to being a non-profit as a library, either you or your friends group or foundation. This is the show for you. If you have some questions, you do want to have him specifically answer, send them to me ahead of time and we can get them to him so we can prepare. Otherwise, you can come just on the show next week and ask him, so definitely sign up for that if you're interested in that or any of our other upcoming shows we have here. We have our April and May shows on the calendar. And come, excuse me, Encompass Live is also on Facebook. Well, we do post on Facebook, your reminder to log into today's show when our recordings are available. So if you do like to use Facebook and you want to be, you have some notifications from us there, give us a like over there and you'll be notified whenever we're doing things every week. Other than that, that wraps up for this morning show. Thank you everyone for being here. Thank you Alicia for being here with me and hopefully we'll see you next time on Encompass Live. Bye-bye.