ALA Internet Room

[Lisa Wolfe <lwolfe@ALA.ORG>]

I hope some of you are interested in helping out. It sounds like a
great opportunity to show how Internet-savvy school librarians are!

Subject: ALA Annual Internet Demo - Call for volunteers
Author:  Mimi King
Date:    5/24/96

                * Cross-posted to multiple lists *

Are you an Internet evangelist? Do you thrill to the prospect of
introducing newbies to the wide range of information available on the
Internet? Do you have interesting lists of Internet resources to share
with other librarians? Have you developed ways to incorporate the
Internet into your library support for users?

If any of these questions are true and you will be at the American
Library Association annual conference in New York, July 6 through 8
1996, you need to volunteer to present an Internet demo in the ALA
Internet Demo room. Demos will be presented using a live Internet
connection with either Macintosh or Windows software, including the
latest WWW browsers and other graphical interfaces.

Following are some topics which have been presented at other Internet
room demos. Rather than pre-assigning topics to particular time slots,
I am requesting that you tell me what you would like to talk about,
and what time slot(s) you would be available to present a demo.
Please list your preferred time slot and at least one alternative
time slot to assist with scheduling. If you would be willing to
present on more than one topic, please list alternative topics in
order of preference.

Remember, everyone wants to talk about the World-Wide Web, so offers
for presentations on OTHER topics would be greatly appreciated.
Intermediate or advanced topics are also popular, as long as you
describe your intended audience clearly. Topics from the information
service provider's side have been frequently requested, but difficult
to locate speakers for, such as WWW site management, listserv setup=7F
and ownership, etc.

Potential topics:
  General Internet Introduction
  Children's & Young Adult Internet Resources
  Reference Tools on the Internet
  K-12 Internet Resources
  Federal Government Info Resources
  Business Resources on the Internet
  Medical Resources on the Internet
  Writing PERL/CGI Scripts for WWW
  HTML Tags and Editing Tools
  Archie, FTP, and Major Archive Sites
  World-Wide Web Search Tools Compared
  SLIP and PPP: Using GUIs with Dialup Connections
  Interactive Information Spaces using MOOs
  Managing your World-Wide Web Sites

Presentations on specific commercial products or individual library
systems are NOT appropriate for this venue.

Please send a short description of your presentation, outlining
specific resources and topics to be covered. Include a two-sentence
"advertisement" for your session, with audience level indicated.
Topics need to be covered in an hour, leaving time for audience
questions. If you wish to distribute handouts, plan for 300 people,
and note that there are NO photocopying facilities on site.

If you need to connect your laptop to the video display or you have
other special presentation needs or plans, specific descriptions of
your plans should be included in your proposal, and you must schedule
time to test the demo room equipment in advance of your presentation.
The demo room equipment may not be able to accommodate some specific
presentation configurations.

The time slots that are available include (please refer to time slots
by number in any correspondence):

      1) Sat. July  6 10:30am - 11:30am
      2) Sat. July  6   1:30pm - 2:30pm
      3) Sat. July  6   3:00pm - 4:00pm
      4) Sun. July  7  9:00am - 10:00am
      5) Sun. July  7 10:30am - 11:30am
      6) Sun. July  7   1:30pm - 2:30pm
      7) Sun. July  7   3:00pm - 4:00pm
      8) Mon. July  8  9:00am - 10:00am
      9) Mon. July  8 10:30am - 11:30am
     10) Mon. July  8  1:30pm - 2:30pm

If you are interested in presenting a demo, please send an email
message to:  kingm@uwec.edu  before Friday, June 14th at 9:00pm CST
indicating your topic and time slot preferences.

Include your name, job title, library affiliation, and email address
as part of the *BODY* of the message to aid future communications.
Please include a short paragraph describing your experience with
Internet demonstrations or training.

Initial topic and time slot confirmations will be sent as soon as
possible after June 17, so you can begin preparing presentations.  A
complete final schedule emailed to presenters and various listservs
by Wednesday, June 19.

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Mimi King, Head of Reference
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702
kingm@uwec.edu
(715) 836-4958
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