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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 20:25:57 EST
From: Cathy Thomas <thomas@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>

Beginning in January 1993 a new Internet training program is
being carried out to train fifteen librarians at Columbia
University Libraries.  The program is intended to enable the
trainees to develop proficiency on the Internet and to
utilize Internet resources in their subject areas.
Eventually, the pilot program trainees will be expected, in
turn, to train other librarians to use the Internet.  They
will also be expected to continue to use the Internet in
their work, and to help library users discover Internet
tools in their fields.

There are five trainers working together to design and
present this program which will eventually be offered to all
Columbia librarians.  The curriculum consists of 10
workshops.  The workshops will be presented in a training
facility with at least eight IBM PS/2 microcomputers
connected to the campus Ethernet.  We have decided to limit
each workshop to eight trainees.  Therefore, each workshop
will be presented twice in the same week.  Each workshop
will require two hours of classroom time and two hours of
non-classroom practice time.  New workshops will be
presented every other week.  Each trainee will receive a
copy of "Crossing the Internet Threshold" (an instructional
handbook by Roy Tennant et al.).  In addition, trainees will
receive locally prepared documentation which is being
created and distributed gradually over the course of the
five month program.

Here is a copy of our syllabus:

____________________________________________________________

               COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
                 INTERNET TRAINING PROGRAM
                  SYLLABUS -- SPRING 1993

1. OVERVIEW   (January 11)

     What is a network; what is the Internet; how are we
connected; what else are we connected to; how do we
communicate?  Internet history, background, directions.
ColumbiaNet/CLIO Plus (our local CWIS/OPAC); "Tour of the
Internet" (NSF HyperCard Stack).

2. CUNIXF*   (January 25)

     Email.  Text editors.  Reading local notesfiles.  Basic
Unix commands.  Command aliases.  Files and directories.
Space management.  Quotas.

*Cunixf is the Internet host normally used by the
librarians.  We are teaching Unix shell commands to help
trainees use cunixf and to lay the foundation for using
Unix-like ftp commands.

3. KERMIT FILE TRANSFERS   (February 8)

     ASCII format.  Uploading and downloading files between
microcomputers and mainframes.  Screen dumping and session
logging.  PC and Mac formats.

4. BEYOND CUNIXF   (February 22)

     Address formats (Internet and BITNET).  Using the
Postmaster.  Network gateways.  Mail formats in other
networks.  Returned or bounced email.  Mail aliases.
Finding network addresses.

5. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS AND NEWS GROUPS   (March 8)

     Notesfiles; rn (Usenet).  Finding current aids and
resource guides.  Participating in listservs and Internet
mailing lists.  Building model pathfinders for others in
your subject area.

6. FINDING NAVIGATIONAL TOOLS   (March 22)

     Basic concepts and terms.  Finding citations in notes,
listservs, electronic publications and conferences.  Using
network navigators and directory services.

7. LOGGING ON TO REMOTE COMPUTERS: TELNET/TN3270    (Apr. 5)

     Overview and basics.  Available resources for finding
out about Internet-accessible library catalogs and
databases.  Other resources.  Campus-wide information
systems (CWIS).  Connecting and disconnecting; escape
sequences; troubleshooting.  Hytelnet.

8. FILE TRANSFERS FROM REMOTE COMPUTERS: FTP   (April 19)

     File Transfer Protocol:  overview; anonymous FTP;
navigating directories; commands; getting files; file
formats; compression types; space considerations; temp
directories.

9. USING NAVIGATIONAL TOOLS   (May 3)

     Archie, Gopher, Veronica, WAIS, etc.  Troubleshooting.
Client/server concepts and tools.

10. TIPS AND REVIEW   (May 17)

     Net etiquette.  Keeping current.  Manipulating graphics
files; printing postscript files.  Follow-up on experiences
during the training period; suggestions.
____________________________________________________________


Although we will not be able to respond to requests for
information at this time, we hope that you will hear from us
again in June 1993 after we have had a chance to evaluate
the program.

Joseph Brennan
User Services Consultant, Academic Information Systems
brennan@columbia.edu

Dan Caldano
User Support Specialist, Library Systems Office
caldano@columbia.edu

Charles Greenberg
Media Services Librarian, Health Sciences Library
greenber@columbia.edu

David Magier
Head, Area Studies
magier@columbia.edu

Cathy Thomas
User Services Librarian, Library Systems Office
thomas@columbia.edu