NLM RESOURCES FOR IMAGES NNLM HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARIES

NLM RESOURCES FOR IMAGES NNLM HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARIES WEBINAR SERIES August 18, 2020 Kelsey Cowles Academic Coordinator NNLM Middle Atlantic Region University of Pittsburgh HSLS

NIH What is NNLM? National Institutes of Health NLM National Library of Medicine (NLM) NNLM Network of the NLM MAR Middle Atlantic Region

Today’s topics • The importance of images • Med. Pix • Open-i • Other resources: • NLM Digital Collections • Visible Human Project • National Cancer Institute: Visual Online • Centers for Disease Control: Public Health Image Library

Poll! Which of these resources have you used before?

Not just a pretty picture! • Visuals can increase retention of the information they are paired with 1 • Visuals are processed much faster than text 1, 2 • Visuals can elicit emotional reactions 3, 4 • A picture is worth 1000 words – or, might take 1000 words to accurately describe!

Which gets the message across faster? Which will you remember? Does the image help you remember the text? OR “A comminuted fracture of the right humeral midshaft with medial displacement of a bone fragment”

How many words might you use to describe this image?

Images make statements!

Why not just Google it? • Extraneous results • Stock images • Copyright • Image quality • Accuracy • Source & context • Search customization • Advertisements

Thank you! Please join us in October for the next installment of the series! Further Questions? Email me: kac 221@pitt. edu Funded by the National Library of Medicine. NNLM and Network of the National Library of Medicine are service marks of the US Department of Health and Human Services. August 2020