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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121">Interested in brush up on your health reference skills or providing health programs and outreach in your community? Please consider joining us for the 4-week online class Health
and Wellness @ the Library: The Essentials of Providing Consumer Health Services. This free online course defines the core competencies of providing health information services to your patrons and then dives directly into the essential skills and knowledge
that library staff needs to build those competencies. Attendees will participate in a robust class that includes four weeks of interactive instruction, discussion, and activities followed by an additional week to complete a final project.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> This course was developed to help all library staff provide excellent services and health information to consumers, patients, students, and other members of the community.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> Due to the comprehensive nature of this class, participants can expect to spend between 3 and 4 hours per week to fulfill the requirements of this course. Upon completion, participants will be awarded 12 MLA CE units. In addition,
this is an approved CHIS class; participants who complete the class are eligible to apply for Level I or Level II of the
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Consumer Health Information Specialization from MLA</a>.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> The GMR is currently sponsoring the CHIS certification application for public librarians and public library staff in our region.
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"> </span><span style="color:#212121">NNLM librarians
<a href="mailto:bobbi-newman@uiowa.edu">Bobbi Newman</a>, Community Engagement and Outreach Specialist from the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) <a href="mailto:kkham@library.ucla.edu" target="_blank"><span style="background:#FFEE94">Kelli</span> <span style="background:#FFEE94">Ham</span></a>,
Consumer Health Librarian from the Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) and are teaming up to teach this class!</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> The class will run from March 20 – April 21, 2016. We will be using Moodle for this self-paced class. </span><span style="color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">More information will be sent out to registrants by
March 17, and the course will open Monday morning, March 20th.</span><span style="color:#212121"> Register now at <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nnlm.gov_class_health-2Dwellness-2Dspring-2D2017&d=CwMF-g&c=NjMSpGk2_ZA7ZXEWULsqPkmhl_68_j_HpnUZ-YvUJ78&r=vSPuxPDN6ctD2D4_GZlpAw&m=t8I_w-g_rxn3V4RRtSk_nIfU-Ri7Ri4Q4ldshDAZQIY&s=Qfl2ydKv0AP-sQUAEy1LKW4iGsYvBo0WiK8qkomqHlk&e=" target="_blank">https://nnlm.gov/class/health-wellness-spring-2017</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Bobbi Newman, MLIS, MA</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Community Engagement and Outreach Specialist</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">Greater Midwest Region (GMR)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Capital Area District Libraries – Administration<br>
401 S. Capitol Avenue, Lansing, MI, 48901-7919<br>
517-367-6331 | <a href="mailto:mcconnells@cadl.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">mcconnells@cadl.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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