[Baynet] Reminder of Infopeople's next webinar

Wed Feb 27 14:41:37 PST 2008

A reminder of the next Infopeople webinar.  Please let your friends and
colleagues know about this event!

Title:  An In-depth Look at MedlinePlus 

Session #3 of the Health e-Shows Series

Date and time: March 4, 2008, 12pm - 1pm

This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this
Infopeople webinar.  Pre-registration is not required.

For more information and to participate in the March 4 webinar, go to

http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/240/index.html 

Library users routinely ask tough health questions at the reference desk,

and often the first place that librarians start is MedlinePlus. Nearly all

library staff members are familiar with this important health information

resource, but there is much more to MedlinePlus.gov than meets the eye.

Please join us as we explore the nooks and crannies of the site and share

tips for tweaking your search to pull out the nuggets of information for

your library users! 

This webinar is geared to library reference staff, but will also be useful

to anyone who wants to use MedlinePlus to its full potential. The webinar

will begin with a top-level view of MedlinePlus and how it differs from

popular search engines and commercial health websites. What follows is an

in-depth breakdown of the site, including some great ready-reference

resources and other useful features. Participants will see search techniques

that unlock the power of MedlinePlus, and will learn about new content areas

that will provide answers to those difficult health reference questions.

There is sure to be something new and useful for everyone! 

With this event, Infopeople is happy to introduce a new presentation format

that will complement our webcast offerings. This new format is called a

webinar. We will be using Wimba (formerly Horizon Wimba) to deliver these

events. You will not see the presenter as in a webcast, but you will be able

to hear them and as with our webcasts you will be able to submit text chat

questions during the presentation. Using this new format, our presenters

will not only be able to show PowerPoint slides, they will also be able to

show web pages. We think this new format will offer a better learning

experience for participants. All webinars will also be archived and made

available as podcasts. We also hope to be able to bring you a wider variety

of presenters, as travel is no longer an issue: webinar presenters "present"

from the comfort of their home or workplace computer! 

As this is a new format please run the wizard again to make sure your

computer is ready for the webinar.

Speaker:  Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience 

working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 

2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National 

Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region 

(PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is 

responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs 

and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations 

in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health 

information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific 

Southwest Region.

Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in 

the California library community.  If you are outside California, 

please do not view the live event.

However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day 

following the webinar.  Check our archive listing at:

http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived 

Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list.

Webinar: An In-depth Look at MedlinePlus

Date: March 4, 2008

Time:  12pm - 1pm

Speaker: Kelli Ham

Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant

assist at infopeople.org

voice: 650-578-9685  fax: 650-349-5089

http://infopeople.org/

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