Workshop Announcement - Health and Medicine on the Internet
Isabel Danforth (danforth@tiac.net)
Sat, 8 Nov 1997 16:00:41 -0500
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 16:00:41 -0500
Message-Id: <3.0.4.32.19971108160904.009fde10@sunspot.tiac.net>
From: Isabel Danforth <danforth@tiac.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: Workshop Announcement - Health and Medicine on the Internet
The Librarians Online Support Team would like to make you=20
aware of the following online course. While this course is being=20
taught by L.O.S.T. members, there is no official connection between=20
L.O.S.T. and the University of Akron, and the listing is provided for=20
information only.=20
Health and Medicine on the Internet
Credit: .8 Continuing Education Units from University of Akron=20
Dates and time for online attendance:=20
December 9, 11, 16 & 18 from noon-2 PM EST each day.=20
Registration Information=20
Deadline December 5, 1997=20
Include email address with registration information.
Registration Contact: Judy or Jan at 330-972-7577 or 330-972-6859=20
or=20
UASC Central Office - Polsky 466=20
The University of Akron=20
Akron, OH 44325-4104=20
Forms and more registration information can be seen at:=20
http://www.uakron.edu/uasc/register.htm=20
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Tuition: $110=20
Payable by check, Purchase Order, Visa, Mastercard and Discover=20
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Instructors: Diane Kovacs and Isabel Danforth=20
This course will cover international health resources on the Internet: =20
how to find them and how to use them professionally. International=20
coverage will include European, North and South American, African,=20
Asian and Australian resources as well as those that are multi-national=20
in nature.
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The course will involve Web based activities performed by participants=20
outside of class hours, as well as 8 hours of Diversity University=20
classroom contact.
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About the Instructors
Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet & World=20
Wide Web Training & Consulting and is the editor-in-chief of the=20
Directory of Scholarly and Professional Electronic Conferences. She=20
has more than 6 years of experience as an Internet Trainer and Consultant.
Her current books are The Internet Trainer's Total Solution Guide=20
Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishers: New York. ISBN 0-442-0253305=20
and with Michael J. Kovacs, Cybrarians Guide to Successful Internet=20
Programs and Services Neal-Schuman Publishers: New York. ISBN=20
1-555-702872. Diane's first book The Internet Trainer's Guide, was=20
published by Van Nostrand Reinhold in 1995. She is co-authoring with=20
Ann Carlson a forthcoming book Health and Medicine on the Internet=20
from Library Solutions Press=20
She was the recipient of the Apple Corporation Library's, Internet=20
Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of Illinois Graduate=20
School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association's
first recipient of the Young Leadership Award in 1996. =20
Diane received an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the=20
University of Illinois in 1989 and an M.Ed. in Instructional Technology=20
from Kent State University in 1993. Currently she is enrolled in Ph.D.=20
program in Communications at Ohio State University.
Isabel L. Danforth is currently a reference librarian in the=20
Wethersfield, Ct. Public Library, and is active in issues dealing with=20
technology in the library. She has also worked in the fields of=20
business data processing and education. Besides her MLS degree=20
from Southern Connecticut State University, she holds an MS in=20
Geology from the U. of Michigan, and a BS in mathematics and geology=20
from Tufts University. She is active in bringing the Internet into her=20
public library, and serves on the committees to design and implement=20
web pages for both the Town of Wethersfield, and the Wethersfield=20
Public Library. =20
Isabel walks through the MOO world as Ringer, serving as an=20
administrator on several MOOs. She is co-founder and director of=20
Librarians' On-line Support Team, an organization which reaches out to=20
librarians around the world, providing moo-based workshops and=20
mentoring to librarians who have been thrust onto the Internet. Isabel=20
was interviewed for a column on L.O.S.T. that appeared in the=20
December, 1995 issue of American Libraries. Last spring she was a=20
co-instructor for Distance Education Consortium=92s HTML Publishing=20
class, held on DU.
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Isabel L. Danforth Reference Librarian, Wethersfield Public Library
danforth@tiac.net Coordinator of Librarians' Online Support Team
http://www.gnacademy.org:8001/~lost/=20
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