PubMed Workshops at SENYLRC

Do your patrons need clinical health information for their own needs or for research on the high school and academic level? Are you already using PubMed but would like to know about new features? Two PubMed workshops will be held at SENYLRC on March 8, 2005 with a snow date of March 9, 2005. PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 15 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related biomedical articles back to the 1950's.

The morning class (9:30 am – 12:00 pm) is geared for librarians from all types of libraries who are interested in learning to search PubMed. The class will cover basic searching techniques, automatic term mapping, searching with MeSH and other PubMed searching procedures.

New Features in PubMed is the topic for the afternoon class and is meant for library staff already experienced in searching PubMed. It will be held from 1:00 PM-2:30 PM with a time for Q & A from 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm. The new look of the PubMed search page will be highlighted. The capabilities of the new MyNCBI, which replaces Cubby, will be explored. Other enhancements such as the spell-check feature and the email feature will be demonstrated.

For more information about PubMed go to <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?>.

Peggy Falls, Outreach Programs Coordinator for the Middle Atlantic Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine located at the New York Academy of Medicine is the trainer for these programs.

There is no fee for these workshops. For online registration, go to <http://www.senylrc.org/ce/>.

If you have questions about either program, please contact Judy Fischetti at (845) 883-9065 or by email <Contact Judy>

By Judy Fischetti, Member Services Librarian

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