Course Catalogs
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MLA Instructor-Led Courses
Instructor-led courses combine live sessions with activities before and after sessions, participant chat open for the duration of the course, instructor feedback, and opportunities to engage instructors outside of sessions.
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Essential Searching Skills for Librarians on Systematic Review Teams November 2026
Registration is closed for this offering. Tuesday, November 3 & 10, 2026, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm CT If you will be part of a systematic review team–or if you already do systematic review searches and want to hone your skills–this is the searching course for you! You’ll leave the course with the marketable skills needed to become an essential and confident member of a systematic review team. The course will take you through the systematic review searching process, from confirming the need for a review and identifying appropriate databases to creating search strategies and documenting and reporting searches using…
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Use of AI in Research
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 1:00pm-2:30pm, Central Time Due to limited enrollment, this session is not included in the CE Passport. This workshop, a part of the MLA Research Training Institute curriculum, is intended for health sciences librarians who are interested in the use of AI in Research. AI can already perform much of the research pipeline. This webinar asks what that means for information science expertise and what tasks you ought to let AI do, then gives you a way to answer both within your own work. Learning Outcomes By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:…
MLA Live Webinars
MLA offers live webinars that serve skill development in the professional competencies. Live webinars are also recorded and available for purchase separately.
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Grant Writing for Librarians
Scheduled: Thursday, October 29, 2026, 1:00pm–2:30pm, Central Time Grants actively expand library reach and open doors to enhance support to the communities they serve. Because libraries sit at the intersection of diverse disciplines and funding opportunities, librarians are uniquely positioned to lead grant development. Today, however, tightening budgets across public, academic, and health sciences libraries mean that information professionals must seek external funding more than ever. Yet, few librarians are formally trained in grant writing or in leading cross-disciplinary teams. Using resources from The Librarian’s Grants Handbook: Understanding the Grant Process from Start to Finish, this webinar will highlight major…
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Medical Terminology Fundamentals for Health Sciences Librarians
Rescheduled to: Tuesday, December 15, 2026, 1:00pm–2:30pm, Central Time A basic understanding of medical terminology is fundamental knowledge for clinical librarians. This course offers an introduction to the structure of medical terms, positional and directional terms, essential abbreviations and hospital words, and elementary terms by body system. Additionally, learners will be provided resources to further their skills and knowledge. This content-based course will be delivered synchronously. Active learning will be facilitated through frequent interactive review. While not comprehensive, this course is designed to give you the building blocks to break down and recognize medical terms with a focus on recognition…
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Understanding Your Institution: Aligning Library Services with Mission, Accreditation, and Patron Needs
Scheduled: Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 1:00pm–2:30pm, Central Time Health sciences librarians are most effective when they can clearly connect library services to the mission, priorities, and structures of their institutions. This webinar will help participants understand how their library fits within the larger organization and how to use that knowledge to strengthen relationships, demonstrate value, and support accreditation, education, clinical care, and research. A panel of experienced health sciences librarians from academic/hospital/solo settings will share their experiences. Participants will learn how to describe their institution’s mission and vision; explain how the library supports institutional goals; identify where the library sits…
MLA Recorded Webinars
MLA offers recorded webinars that serve skill development in the professional competencies.
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ChatGPT and Beyond: Strategies for Effective AI Communication
Learn what AI tools can do for you and how to communicate with them to help you work more effectively and efficiently in this practical, hands-on webinar taught by the creator of the CLEAR framework for prompt engineering.
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Critically Appraising Qualitative Research: Avoiding Quantitative Research Biases While Respecting Methodological Rigor
Learn how to appraise qualitative research using appropriate standards and tools and enhance your contribution to the practice of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and boost your value in your workplace.
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Generative AI in Action: Practical Strategies for Medical and Health Sciences Libraries
Rather than trying to chase every new AI tool or headline, librarians need durable, transferable skills for evaluating AI, integrating it responsibly, and supporting users who bring AI into their work. This course focuses on practical approaches to AI literacy—helping health sciences librarians understand what these tools can do, where they fall short, and how they can be meaningfully applied across teaching, research support, scholarly communication, and internal library workflows. You’ll leave with clear, adaptable strategies for evaluating AI tools, applying effective prompting techniques, and guiding students, faculty, and clinicians in responsible use. This session is designed to help medical…
MLA Self-Paced Courses
Each self-placed course places you in a realistic situation in which you must acquire and use skills to solve a problem or complete a task.
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Collection Development: Subscribing to and Renewing Electronic Resources
A health sciences library’s most valuable resources are the ones that provide the most current medical information and are most easily accessed, its electronic journals and databases. How does a librarian acquire these types of resources and make renewal decisions about them? Collection Development: Subscribing to and Renewing Electronic Resources will walk you through the key steps a collection development librarian takes to subscribe to and renew electronic resources, from understanding an institution’s technical requirements, to negotiating with a vendor on pricing and licensing, to analyzing usage statistics and bibliometric data. You’ll learn the importance of gathering quantitative and qualitative…
NLM Courses
Each self-placed course places you in a realistic situation in which you must acquire and use skills to solve a problem or complete a task.
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#citeNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-thons
For more information or to schedule this course, please contact the NNLM Training Office at nto@utah.edu. Wikipedia’s health topics pages are visited a staggering 7 billion times a year, making it possibly the world’s most popular health information resource. The objective of #CiteNLM is to improve the credibility and content of medical and health-related articles on Wikipedia by adding citations and information from National Library of Medicine (NLM) sources. NLM is actively engaged in reaching a major strategic goal to “reach more people in more ways through enhanced dissemination and engagement pathways.” By holding #CiteNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, we can: Our NNLM…