Regional Activities: NLM near You
Professional Meeting Exhibit Schedule
NLM participates in many professional meetings. Whether you're a nurse, doctor, librarian, scientist or first responder, look for us at your next annual meeting.
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Traveling Exhibitions
Learn more about the history of medicine by visiting a local exhibit created by NLM historians and curators. Exhibits are typically hosted by libraries and universities. Some exhibits still have availability in their schedules, so if you would like to host an NLM Exhibition, contact us with your request.
Training Classes in NLM Products
NLM supports a variety of training opportunities. We sponsor classroom sessions across the country each year as well as Web-based training on NLM products. The classroom training is aimed at librarians and health professionals but people with an interest in learning how to use NLM products to find biomedical information are welcome as well. Classes are free; participants are awarded MLA continuing education credits.
NCBI Discovery Workshops
NCBI offers a series of two-day training courses called Discovery Workshops. Each year it will hold three Discovery Workshops on the NIH campus and four additional Workshops at universities, colleges or government research centers located in four of the eight regions of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM).
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Visit NLM
Are you visiting Washington, D.C. on vacation? Perhaps you live in the region? If so, consider visiting the National Library of Medicine. We offer tours daily during the week at 1:30pm, but there are many things to see and do at the Library:
- Visit the upcoming exhibition on the subject of Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness (Opening Fall 2011).
- Take a tour of the History of Medicine Reading Room.
- See all exhibitions.
- "Turn the pages" of Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal, a beautifully illustrated 18th century book of medicinal plants, at the History of Medicine Reading Room's Turning the Pages kiosk.
- Explore Objects of Art in the National Library of Medicine.
- Visit the interactive computer displays and pick up give-aways at the NLM Visitors Center, open weekdays except Federal holidays, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. (EST).
