Web
in BI - 11/18/1998
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The Boston area had its first Web-in-BI session on Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 10:00-noon, at Wheelock College library. Esme Devault hosted the meeting; Holly Maginnis opened and closed the meeting. Five people presented:
Holly Maginnis (Wentworth Institute of
Technology)
-- Using Authorware for Online
Tutorials.
Esme DeVault (Wheelock College)
-- Teacher Tools Network, Electronic
Bibliographies.
Tina McEvoy (Wheelock College)
-- Internet Resources on the Wheelock
College Library Website.
Julie Halpern (Simmons College)
-- Using the Internet Public
Library.
Susan van Daum Tholl (Emmanuel College)
-- Teaching Website
Evaluation.
There were 24 people in attendance: 23 academic librarians, and 1 public librarian. The following libraries were represented:
The following is the list of sites which were demonstrated during the meeting. Esme DeVault put this list together.
Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources:
http://refserver.lib.vt.edu/libinst/critTHINK.HTM
Woods Hole Marine Biological Library Online Course
Bibliographies:
http://www.mbl.edu/vhosts/LIBRARY/bibliographies.shtml
Emerson College Library Online Research Guides (choose Guides
to Library
Resources):
http://www.emerson.edu/library/home.html
Teacher's Net
http://www.teachers.net/
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/coredocs.html
Where the Wild Things Are: Librarians'
Guide to the Best Information on the Internet:
http://www.sau.edu/CWIS/Internet/Wild/index.htm
United Nations Cyber School Bus:
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
Internet Public Library:
http://www.ipl.org
Victorian Women Writers Project:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/
Massachusetts Political Almanac:
http://www.the-mpa.com/core.shtml