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["Mary K. Biagini" <mkb@LIS.PITT.EDU>]

MULTICULTURAL MATERIALS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS:  AN OVERVIEW
Elizabeth Howard, author and Professor Emerita, West Virginia University
July 15-16 (Wednesday/Thursday)
Dr. Elizabeth Howard will help you evaluate and use materials by and about Afric
 an Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans.  Parti
 cipants will receive a reading list in advance.

GROUP DYNAMICS FOR LIBRARIANS
Sara Fine, Professor, Library Science
June 27-July 1; (Monday-Friday)
This five-day workshop will explore how groups work (or don't work), how groups
 make decisions, how groups affect the well being of members, how individuals ca
 n have an impact in groups, and how working groups affect their organizations.
  We will relate g
roup theory to the operation of the library.  We will discuss, simulate, observe
 , analyze, strategize, and discover how groups influence our working lives in o
 bvious and subtle ways.

POPULAR ADULT FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS:  AN UPDATE
Mary K. Biagini, Associate Dean, SLIS
July 6-7 (Wednesday/Thursday)
Dr. Mary K. Biagini, author of A Handbook of Contemporary Fiction for Public Lib
 raries and Schools Libraries, will provide you with an overview of popular adul
 t genres you should know if you work with young adults:  romances, suspense, ho
 rror, spy stories
, mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, westerns, and historical fiction.  She wi
 ll highlight the most popular and well-known authors and their books and identi
 fy the most important contemporary authors of literary importance.  You will re
 ceive a reading l
ist in advance.

TEACH SMART:  LIBRARY INSTRUCTION FOR THE NINETIES
Susan Webreck Alman, Assistant to the Dean, SLIS and Christinger Tomer, Assistan
 t Professor, DLS
July 6-7 (Wednesday/Thursday)
Information literacy is a life-long educational goal, but helping students work
 toward this goal is a challenge for librarians because of the increasing comple
 xity of the library environment.  You will examine issues and trends affecting
 user education in
 school, academic, and public libraries serving students of all ages and learn h
 ow to evaluate user learning styles, accommodate users with diverse learning st
 yles, develop your own teaching skills, and use the LOEX (Library Orientation E
 xchange) Clearing
house.  Topics highlighted include developing information literacy competencies
 and initiating collaborative teaching strategies with faculty.

 LIBRARY INSTRUCTION FOR THE EMERGING ELECTRONIC LIBRARY
Christinger Tomer, Assistant Professor, DLS, and Susan Webreck Alman, Assistant
 to the Dean, SLIS
July 8-9 (Friday/Saturday)
You will learn how to teach patrons to use OPACs and other electronic reference
 sources, including sources on CD-ROM and commercial online database services, a
 nd develop strategies for helping students adapt to the emerging electronic inf
 ormation environm
ent.  You will also learn how to evaluate relevant software applications, includ
 ing programs designed to support computer assisted instruction.  (May be taken
 as a continuation of Teach Smart or alone.)

PICTURE BOOKS FOR ALL
Elizabeth Mahoney, Head, SLIS Library, and Coordinator, Professional Libraries C
 luster, University Library System
July 8-9 (Friday/Saturday)
Picture books are not just for the very youngest children any more.  Elizabeth M
 ahoney will provide you with an overview of how picture books have changed over
  the last decade and what new audiences are now using them.  Through examining
 the books, you wi
ll learn about new authors and illustrators, themes and subjects, new artists an
 d production techniques,  emerging formats (especially interactive books), and
 how these new picture books can be used with very young and older children, ado
 lescents, and adu
lts.

THE INTERNET:  GETTING STARTED
Carrie Gardner, Doctoral Student, DLS; Bill Yurick, Doctoral Student, DIS; and B
 onnie Black, Project Director, Three Rivers Free-Net, The Carnegie Library of P
 ittsburgh
Three Sections:  Section 1: July 11-12 (Monday/Tuesday)
          Section 2: August 1-2 (Monday/Tuesday)
          Section 3: August 3-4 (Wednesday/Thursday)
If you would like to become an Internet user, this workshop is for you.  You wil
 l learn how an individual or an institution can connect to the Internet, and on
 ce connected, use three basic services:  electronic mail, telnet, and FTP (File
  Transfer Protoco
l).  Through "hands-on" practice, you will learn how to send and receive e-mail,
  use remote login to access online library catalogs and databases, and download
  data files from remote computers.  You will also learn what equipment you need
  to get started.

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE UPDATE
Margaret Kimmel, Professor and Chair, DLS
July 11-12 (Monday/Tuesday)
Dr. Margaret Kimmel will provide you with an update of recent trends in children
 's literature and will focus special attention on new and important authors and
  titles from 1990 to the present.  You will receive a reading list in advance.

CREATING A LIBRARY ENVIRONMENT THAT FOSTERS CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Susan Webreck Alman, Assistant to the Dean, SLIS
July 13-14 (Wednesday/Thursday)
Librarians who work with youth need a proactive approach to create a library env
 ironment that fosters a greater acceptance of cultural diversity.  Issues of di
 versity affect many aspects of service, especially collection development and i
 ntellectual freed
om, resource-based teaching, and interactions with students and faculty.  You wi
 ll learn to develop strategies to create a positive library environment.

EVALUATING NEW ELECTRONIC REFERENCE SOURCES
Fern Brody, Head of Reference Services, Hillman Library, and Amy Knapp, Coordina
 tor of Library Instruction, University Library System
July 13-14 (Wednesday/Thursday)
The number of electronic reference sources has exploded, and librarians need to
 know what is available and what will be most effective in meeting student needs
 .  Fern Brody and Amy Knapp will help you evaluate new online and CD-ROM refere
 nce sources.  You
 will examine and evaluate full-text electronic sources, multi-media encyclopedi
 as, OCLC's FirstSearch, and Silver Platter databases.

ONLINE AND ON-DISC DATABASE SEARCHING:
BEYOND THE BASICS
Edie Rasmussen, Associate Professor, DLS
July 15-16 (Friday/Saturday)
Dr. Edie Rasmussen will demonstrate advanced search strategies for DIALOG and CD
 -ROM services such as DIALOG ON DISC, Silver Platter, and OCLC's FirstSearch Ca
 talog, and full-text databases.  You will have practice online and on-disc sess
 ions.

UNIX FOR LIBRARIANS
Christinger Tomer, Assistant Professor, Library Science
July 26-29 (Tuesday-Friday)
Over four days, Dr. Christinger Tomer will provide an overview of basic aspects
 of the UNIX operating system in a library environment, including its nature and
  structure and its relationship to such distributed file systems as NFS and AFS
 .  Participants w
ill learn how to customize the UNIX user environment; how to create and manage f
 iles; how to use UNIX utilities, various editors, client applications (e.g. the
  UNIX version of the Gopher client), mail user agents, and X Windows graphical
 user environments
; and how to process text and/or documents.

FOCUS ON TECHNICAL SERVICES:  CATALOGING NONPRINT MEDIA
Nancy B. Olson, Professor, Mankato State University
August 1-5 (Monday-Friday)
In this five-day workshop, nationally known Nancy B. Olson will focus on issues
 of cataloging nonprint media (e.g., microcomputer software, CD-ROMs, video and
 sound recordings, and other multimedia and interactive media formats).  Profess
 or Olson will emp
hasize descriptive cataloging using AACR2, discuss problems of subject access, a
 nd propose practical solutions for handling materials.  Her book, Cataloging of
  Audiovisual Materials, 3d ed., will be used.

USING THE INTERNET:  BEYOND THE BASICS
Carrie Gardner, Doctoral Student, DLS; Bill Yurick, Doctoral Student, DIS; and B
 onnie Black, Project Director, Three Rivers Free-Net, The Carnegie Library of P
 ittsburgh
August 5-6 (Friday/Saturday)
If you would like to become a more experienced Internet user, this "hands-on" wo
 rkshop is for you.  You will be introduced to tools for resource discovery and
 information retrieval across the Internet, including Archie, xarchie, Gopher, x
 gopher, netfind,
WAIS, and World Wide Web.  Using various interfaces such as lynx and mosaic, you
  will browse a hypertext representation of Internet resources.  GIF images, jpe
 g moving images, Internet relay chat, and audio data will also be demonstrated.

ALL SESSIONS MEET 9:00 A.M. - 12 NOON AND 1:00-5:00 P.M. ON SCHEDULED DAYS.


REGISTRATION INFORMATION

To register, please return the Enrollment Form with full payment.  Please make c
 heck/money order payable to the "University of Pittsburgh".

Participants who desire academic credit for workshops must apply and be admitted
  to the School as Special Students.  Please call for an admission application a
 nd tuition rates.

The University reserves the right to cancel any program that lacks sufficient en
 rollment and all payments will be refunded.

For further information, contact Joyce Mitchell (412) 624-9460.

TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING

The University of Pittsburgh is conveniently located in Pittsburgh, a center for
  culture, recreation, and shopping.  Pittsburgh, served by major airlines, Grey
 hound Bus Lines and Amtrak, is 10 miles south of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and
 convenient to Int
erstates 70 and 79.  Limousine service is available from the airport and takes a
 pproximately 30 minutes.  Local bus service, taxis, and car rentals are availab
 le.

Housing is available in air-conditioned Litchfield Towers, and a block of rooms
 has been reserved. Single ($26/night) and double ($15/person/night or $30) room
 s are available.  A list of area hotels is also available.
University of Pittsburgh
School of Library and Information Science
Please register me for the following workshops:
(If any of your selections are closed, you will be notified.)

_______  Multicultural Materials for Children & Young Adults ($100)
_______  Group Dynamics for Librarians ($250)
_______  Popular Adult Fiction for Young Adults ($100)
_______  Teach Smart:  Library Instruction for the Nineties ($100)
_______  Library Instruction for the Emerging Electronic Library ($100)
_______  Picture Books for All ($100)
_______  The Internet:  Getting Started ($100)
        Section 1 ___ OR  Section 2 ___  OR Section 3 ___
_______  Children's Literature Update ($100)
_______  Creating a Library Environment that Fosters Cultural Diversity ($100)
_______  Evaluating New Electronic Reference Sources ($100)
_______  Online and On-Disc Database Searching ($100)
_______  Unix for Librarians ($200)
_______  Cataloging Nonprint Media ($250)
_______  Using the Internet:  Beyond the Basics ($100)


Any 3 $100 Workshops:  $250.00
Deadlines for registration and payment:  One week before start of workshop
Mail Enrollment Form and Payment to:

        Dr. Mary K. Biagini, Associate Dean
        505 SLIS Building
        School of Library and Information Science
        University of Pittsburgh
        Pittsburgh, PA  15260
        e-mail:  joyce.@lis.pitt.edu


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Mary K. Biagini
Associate Dean and Editor, School Library Media Quarterly
School of Library and Information Science
University of Pittsburgh
135 N. Bellefield Ave.
Pittsburgh  PA  15260
Voice:  412-624-5230    Fax:  412-624-5231    e-mail mkb@lis.pitt.edu