NN/LM Professional Development: Health Literacy, Grey Literature and Mobile Technology | Compendium

The National Library of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region invites you to join them for the following webinars being offered in January.  All are welcome, so feel free to share with anyone you feel will be interested.

  • Tuesday, January 12, 2016  noon-1:00pm ET: Health Literacy 3.0 (Boost Box)  – If you’re still counting syllables in sentences and checking readability formulas in the hopes of making health information health literacy appropriate, you might want to tune into this webinar. Speaker Dr. Christina Zarcadoolas refers to these and other supposed best practices about simplification as “wardrobe malfunctions” in a field that has gone through much evolution in the last 25 years. In an ever more complex worlds, Christina will talk about the limits of simplicity and discuss newer approaches to communicating health effectively.  No registration required. Eligible for 1 MLA CE https://webmeeting.nih.gov/boost2/
  • Thursday, January 14, 2016 11 AM ET: Grey Literature: What is it?! (Sponsored by NN/LM SE/A) – Have you heard the term Grey Literature (greylit) but don’t know what it is? This webinar will help you to understand what greylit is and why it is important. The discussion will include examples of greylit, resources that include greylit, and how and where to search for relevant greylit.  Presenter: Danielle Aloia, Special Projects Librarian, New York Academy of Medicine.  Eligible for 1 MLA CE.  Follow link for registration information and meeting URL.

Sent to you by….
Renae Barger
Michelle Burda
Lydia Collins
Kate Flewelling
Ida Joiner

NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region
Health Sciences Library System
University of Pittsburgh
3550 Terrace Street
Pittsburgh, PA  15261

***Funded by the National Library of Medicine under contract #HHS-N-276-2011-00003-C with the University of Pittsburgh.***