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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 14:12:42 -0700
From: Mary Lynn Rice-Lively <lyaa100@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu>

Thanks to all who responded to my query about what institutions have in the
way of electronic information training facilities. I have some "ammunition"
to build a case for a training site of our own.  We certainly have the #'s
to support it, now all we need is $$.

Here is a summary of the responses I received.

nsteinberger@theo.jtsa.edu wrote:

We do hands on training. Usually 2-3 people to terminal. It is done in the
Library.  It works well.
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Kirsten Klinghammer (e-mail: klingham@mentor.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:

At the Purdue University campus there is some training available
for new users of the internet, but currently it is not very regular.
The training available  at Purdue takes the following forms:

    1.  The university employment office offers short training sessions
        to employees only, focussing on use of ftp or tn3270, but
        with little information available as to what information is
        out there.  This office is the only one with a computer
        training room.  There about twenty terminals available for
        simultaneous use.

    2.  The university computing center does not offer classes having
        to do with the internet, but its help desk is available to
        answer general questions for students and staff.

    3.  The university library system offers occasional seminars to
        staff members, but to this point has not offered seminars to
        library patrons.  A few of us, however, are quite happy to
        teach patrons individually, and we probably teach about one
        patron per month.  We do not advertise that we teach people
        as we do not have the staff support to do so.  We are likely
        to offer training sessions to patrons in the future, but my
        guess is that we will not have terminals available for
        hands-on instruction.

    The employment office's training facility is located in the employment
building.  The library's training sessions are held in a seminar room
in the library, while the individual training sessions are held in the
reference areas of our various libraries.
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Roy Tennant at U.C. Berkley wrote:

We do here at Berkeley.

The facility is located in the library, but there are also other facilities
in other locations on campus.
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Kenneth L. Firestein (klfirestein@ucdavis.edu) wrote:

We have a Microcomputer Room in the Main Library which is a cooperative
arrangement with Instructional Technology (once known as Computer
Services, etc). I this room we have 10 MACs and 10 IBM's. They are
connected to the Internet as well as being on their own LAN for other
instructional purposes. We have an overhead with a projection pad and the
lights can be somewhat dimmed so the projected images can be seen. We
train people in the use of our online catalog (Melvyl), email, telnet,
ftp's, gopher, cd-roms, and bibliographic management programs.
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Julia Shaw Kokot (jsk@med.unc.edu) replied:

We have a teaching lab with ten networked computers for training in the
library.  The lab is maintained by one of the computer centers on campus,
and is used by the Imformation Management Education departement in the
library and by others on the Health Affairs campus.
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From Ron Tenison @ Catlin Gabel School (TENISON%catlin)

    While we are a high school, as opposed to a higher ed. site,  we are
connected to the internet and have a 16 station lab in our library basement
where our internet classes are conducted.  We run classes for both faculty
and students.
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Nancy <HILL%CMSUVMA.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu> replied:

When teaching people how to use the network I use the hands on approach.
I display my activity and have people work along. We have a lab with 25 pcs
going into the network. The first place I always take them is into the MORE
info BBS. It has enough information that they can always telnet back to it
for help when nobody else is around. To get to it telnet
MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU on either the command line or the logon line (either
one but not both) enter MOREINFO no password required. Then just select the
item you wish to review by the number. It has library, discussion list,
teaching success stories, etc. on it.
This allows them to find the part of the network they are interested in
using it also allows them to work at their own speed.

Mary Lynn Rice-Lively
LIS and MSIS Librarian
General Libraries
University of Texas at Austin
ml.rice-lively@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu