Tag: training

Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 10am-11am
Conference Room C-140
850 Marina Bay Parkway, Building C, Richmond, CA

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RSVP by Monday, August 11th to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.
Please obtain your supervisor’s approval before you RSVP.

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Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

Do you:

* Want to find basic information on substances, such as properties, manufacturing & use, or methods of analysis?

* Need to find literature and data on pesticides, drugs, industrial chemicals, or other substances?

* Want to explore relationships between job tasks, exposure to toxic agents, and health effects?

* Want to learn about a tool to assist first responders at hazardous material incidents?

* Want to know the potential toxic effects of the ingredients in common household products, from shampoo to brake fluid?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Toxicological Resources class!

Topics covered will include:

1. Online peer-reviewed databases with basic information on substances
2. Using bibliographic databases to find journal articles on chemicals, drugs, additives, etc.
3. Job-related exposures and their health effects
4. How to find out what?s in common household products

?and more.

Class Objective:
To introduce or remind CDPH staff of freely available, quality toxicological resources. These resources cover topics such as physical & chemical properties of substances, methods of analysis, occupational exposure, policy & regulatory information, and tracking environmental releases of substances, as well as researching the toxic/adverse effects of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and other substances.

These training sessions are free to CDPH employees. A certificate of completion will be available for those who attend the class.

If you are interested in other training classes we offer please go to the library training page for more information.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014, 10:30-12 pm
Enterprise Computer Training Room 72.169
1500 Capitol Ave, Sacramento
(Turn left as you enter the building and
proceed through the double doors to the
Enterprise Training Room)

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RSVP by Monday, August 25th to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.
Please obtain your supervisor’s approval before you RSVP.

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Please note: This class is limited to 12 participants. A waiting list will be created, if necessary, for a possible additional class.

Some seats may be available on the day of the class so if you don’t register in advance, you can just show up to see if there is availability.

Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

Do you want to know how to:

* How to save your PubMed search(es) and receive e-mail updates as new relevant citations are added to PubMed?

* How you can permanently store citations you find from a PubMed search?

* Share a list of citations with colleagues?

* Are you interested in customizing the PubMed display such that searches are “filtered” into categories of your choice?

* Are you interested in keeping track of searches run and citations viewed during the previous 6 months?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s PubMed: My NCBI Hands-on class!

Topics covered will include:

1. How to register for a My NCBI account
2. How to save searches and have PubMed periodically re-run the search and automatically e-mail you new citations
3. How to permanently save and share citations in My NCBI
4. How to set up search filters in PubMed, so search results are sorted into your desired categories (e.g., age groups, citations that link to other databases, etc.)
5. Other features of My NCBI

Class Objective:
This class will assist you in keeping aware of new literature in your field. It will help save you time by allowing for the saving of searches and search results (citations), and will facilitate collaboration by letting you create shared citation sets.

These training sessions are free to CDPH staff. A certificate of completion will be available for those who attend the class.

If you are interested in other training classes we offer please go to the library training page for more information.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014, 10am-11am
Building C, Room 140
850 Marina Bay Parkway, Building C, Richmond, CA

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RSVP by Monday, July 7th to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval before you RSVP.

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Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

* Need to find literature on food and nutrition and their relationship to health?

* Want to know the nutritive value of different kinds of foods, from broccoli to Big Macs?

* Interested in how many fruits and vegetables Californians eat daily and other statistical information?

* Need to keep updated on the latest food-borne outbreaks and recalls?

* Want to know about quality sources of food/nutrition information for consumers?

* Curious about what professional resources (e.g., free training courses) are available to you?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Food/Nutrition Resources class!

Some of the topics that will be covered:
1. Using bibliographic databases such as Agricola to find journal articles on food and nutrition topics
2. Resources for finding the nutritive value of foods
3. Finding statistics on food consumption
4. Information for consumers or for developing consumer material

Class Objective:
An introduction for CDPH staff to quality professional food and nutrition resources that will support CDPH work. Use of these resources will help staff locate statistics, policies/best work practices, and evidence-based information. Professional tools can assist in staff skill development.

These training sessions are free to CDPH employees. A certificate of completion will be available for those who attend the class.

If you are interested in other training classes we offer please go to the library training page for more information.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 10:30-12 pm
Enterprise Computer Training Room 72.169
1500 Capitol Ave, Sacramento
(Turn left as you enter the building and
proceed through the double doors to the
Enterprise Training Room)

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RSVP by Monday, July 21st to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval before you RSVP.

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Please note: This class is limited to 12 participants. A waiting list will be created, if necessary, for a possible additional class.

Some seats may be available on the day of the class so if you don’t register in advance, you can just show up to see if there is availability.

Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

* Want to learn more about finding and using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)?

* Want to know how to effectively use MeSH subheadings?

* Want to learn how to use “evidence-based medicine” filters, useful for both clinical medicine and epidemiology?

* Want to learn about using PubMed’s Topic-Specific Queries, such as Comparative Effectiveness, Healthy People 2020, Health Disparities, and more?

* Need to know if a specific journal is indexed in PubMed?

* Interested in other advanced features of PubMed?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s PubMed Advanced Hands-On class!

Topics covered will include:
1. More about MeSH
2. Using MeSH Subheadings effectively
3. Clinical Queries
4. Topic-Specific Queries
5. Journals in NCBI Databases
6. Other Advanced PubMed features

Class Objective:
This class will teach you how to create more focused searches using MeSH and MeSH subheadings, and to quickly find “evidence-based medicine” citations utilizing PubMed’s pre-defined clinical queries.

It is highly recommended, but not required, that you have already taken the PubMed Basics class, or already have a basic understanding of and ability to search PubMed. This class will not cover what was covered in the PubMed Basics class.

A certificate of completion will be given to those who pre-register and attend the class.

Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

These training sessions are free to CDPH staff.

If you are interested in other training classes we offer please go to the library training page for more information.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 10am-11am
Conference Room C-140
850 Marina Bay Parkway, Building C, Richmond, CA

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RSVP by Monday, June 16th to Michael Sholinbeck at
msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.
Please obtain your supervisor’s approval before you RSVP.

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Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

* Does your work at CDPH involve health promotion, health communication, or health education?

* Are you interested in learning about toolkits and other resources that will help you develop a health intervention?

* Know you need some resources to help you get started with evaluating a project with which you are involved?

* Interested in how to find literature on health education or promotion?

* Do you need to develop consumer health handouts?

* Want to know about quality sources for consumer health information, including non-English language handouts and materials?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Health Promotion and Health Education Resources class!

Topics covered will include:
1. Resource Toolkits for Developing Programs
2. “Best Practices” in Health Education/Promotion
3. Evaluation Resources
4. Finding Health Education Literature
5. Patient/Consumer Health Education Materials

Class Objectives:
To introduce CDPH staff to quality health promotion and health education tools and resources that are freely available online. Use of these resources will assist with efficiently developing effective, evidence-based health promotion programs.

These training sessions are free to CDPH employees.

A certificate of completion will be available for those who attend the class.

If you are interested in other training classes we offer please go to the library training page for more information.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 10:30-12 pm
Enterprise Computer Training Room 72.169
1500 Capitol Ave, Sacramento
(Turn left as you enter the building and
proceed through the double doors to the
Enterprise Training Room)

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RSVP by Monday, June 23th to Michael Sholinbeck at
msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.
Please obtain your supervisor’s approval before you RSVP.

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PLEASE NOTE: This class is limited to 12 participants. A waiting list will be created, if necessary, for an additional class.

Some seats may be available on the day of the class so if you don’t register in advance, you can just show up to see if there is availability.

Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

* Do you need to find scientific evidence for a public health program, intervention, issue, or concern?

* Do you get irrelevant citations when searching PubMed?

* Do you get too many or too few search results when searching PubMed?

* Are you already using PubMed and have some burning questions?

* Are you interested in a hands-on session so you can learn and practice using PubMed?

If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s PubMed Basics Hands-On class!

Topics covered will include:
1. Introduction to PubMed
2. Retrieving Full Text Articles Using the CDPH PubMed URL
3. Effective Keyword Searching Using Boolean Logic and Filters
4. Finding and Using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
5. Other PubMed Features

Class Objective:
PubMed is the primary literature database for most topics in public health; the database comes from the National Library of Medicine. This class will teach you the basic skills needed to search PubMed to identify and obtain the most relevant information you need to perform your job. The skills you learn will save you time by allowing you to search PubMed in a more efficient and effective manner.

These training sessions are free to CDPH staff.

A certificate of completion will be given to those who pre-register and attend the class.

If you are interested in other training classes we offer please go to the library training page for more information.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 10am-11am
Conference Room C-140
850 Marina Bay Parkway, Building C, Richmond, CA

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RSVP by Monday, May 12th to msholinb@library.berkeley.edu
or (510) 642-2510. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval before you RSVP.

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Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

Having difficulty finding the health statistics or data that you need?

Do you want to know where to look for the answers for the following questions?
* How many people in Alameda County have been immunized with the flu shot?
* How many Hispanics in Contra Costa County for 2012?
* How do I find health status reports for California counties?
* How can I get raw data from a national survey that describes nutritional and behavioral factors associated with mortality?

Do you want to be able to download and save data?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Health Statistics and Data Resources class!

Some of the topics that will be covered:
1. Vital Statistics
2. Incidence and Prevalence Statistics
3. National Surveys
4. GIS Data
5. California Statistics

Class Objective:
After this session, you will be able to more quickly and easily locate quality health-related statistics and datasets. You will also be able to identify some significant issues associated with the collection of health statistics.

These training sessions are free to CDPH employees. A certificate of completion will be available for those who attend the class.

A schedule of other upcoming training sessions is available online.

Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 1:00 – 2:30pm
Hearing Room 72.167
1500 Capitol Ave, Sacramento
(Turn left as you enter the building and
proceed through the double doors past the
Enterprise Training Room)

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RSVP by Monday, May 26th to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval before you RSVP.

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Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

Were you aware:

* You can have journal articles, technical reports, standards, book chapters, and more, from nearly any source, delivered to you electronically?

* You can have books from the University of California, Berkeley Library delivered to your office?

* CDPH staff has subscription access to dozens of electronic journals and books from your desktop and from off-campus?

* There is a special CDPH PubMed URL to access full journal articles?

* You can export citations of full journal articles directly from Ovid to EndNote?

* Librarians at the Public Health Library, who have access to hundreds of databases, indexes, and other resources, will research nearly any work-related topic for you, and post relevant citations to your own web portal?

* The library has a secure web portal where you can request library services, track your document delivery requests, view your literature search results, and more?

If you’ve answered “No” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Public Health Library Services Orientation and Accessing Full Text Journals class!

Topics covered will include:
1. Summary of Services to CDPH Staff
2. How to Access Public Health Library Services
3. Requesting Articles, Books, etc.
4. An Introduction to Full Text Electronic Journals and Books
5. How to access articles online using a customized version of PubMed, which links to the CDPH-licensed full-text journals
6. Features of the OvidSP web site, including cited reference searching and exporting Ovid records into bibliographic management software (e.g., EndNote)
7. Public Health Library web pages for CDPH

Class Objective:
You will be introduced to the library and information services available to you in this session. You will see how to easily locate and obtain full text journal articles from OvidSP, from PubMed searches, and from other sources. You will learn how to find other relevant articles by using the “Citing articles” feature of OvidSP and how to add these citations into your EndNote library. This class will show you how Use of the library services will help you identify and obtain the information needed to complete your work in a timely fashion.

These training sessions are free to CDPH employees. A certificate of completion will be available for those who attend the class.

A schedule of other upcoming training sessions is available online.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 10am-11am
Conference Room C-140
850 Marina Bay Parkway, Building C, Richmond, CA

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RSVP by Tuesday, April 8th to msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.

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Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

Do you know:

* That you can limit a search in Google to a particular domain (eg, .gov or .org) or even to a particular website (eg, cdph.ca.gov)?

* What is and is not included in Google search products?

* You can import citations directly from Google Scholar into EndNote?

* You can perform cited reference searching in Google Scholar?

* You can create a profile in Google Scholar, and save citations there?

* Google Books allows you to read or preview books online?

* WorldCat lets you search the library holdings of over 10,000 libraries?

If you’ve answered “No” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Google, Google Scholar, Google Books, and WorldCat class!

Topics covered will include:
1. Google search products: what?s in them?
2. Search tips
3. Setting preferences
4. Creating a profile in Google Scholar
5. Cited reference searching
6. Shortcomings of using Google for research
7. How Google Books and WorldCat link to each other

Class Objective:
After this class, you will be able to perform more effective Internet searches, and will better understand the results that you retrieve. In addition, this class will provide you with helpful tips to search for articles and books.

These training sessions are free to CDPH employees. A certificate of completion will be available for those who attend the class.

A schedule of other upcoming training sessions is available online.