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Learn to Search the Internet

This is a periodic posting to announce the availability of two 
information research forums on the Internet Sleuth:

http://www.isleuth.com

The Internet Sleuth provides gateways to over 2000 searchable databases 
on the Internet.  A local site search engine will help you identify the 
databases you need by subject category or keyword.  From the top of the 
Sleuth home page, select the "Research Forums" button, to find (or to 
offer) interactive assistance in learning to search the Net for resources 
you need.  

The Finding Information Forum provides a place for newbies and old hands 
alike, to post inquiries concerning where on the Internet or in non 
Net sources to locate various types of information.  Volunteers who 
support this Forum are also available by email to address private 
inquiries.  

There are three natural audiences for this bulletin board:

   --  people who are new to the Net and struggling to find their way and 
learn what's here,

   --  people who have some Net experience but who need information 
outside the domains where they are most familiar,

     -- people who want to learn how to find *Anything* on the Net, 
efficiently and fast.  

The Finding Information forum is designed to reduce the pain of entry 
into a complex information medium, by providing a person to person 
"Internet Helpdesk" via email.  In this place, it is safe to be a newbie. 
There are no "dumb" questions, and you will not be placed on any mailing 
list for later solicitations.

The Internet Village Elders forum is a place where you may volunteer your 
services to assist others who need to learn their way around the Net.
If you expect to respond regularly to inquiries in the Finding 
Information Forum, then we invite you to post a biography to the Elders 
forum, so people can see the areas where you are most likely to be of 
help.  However, there are no requirements to do so.  The only rule we 
suggest here is that courtesy and humane concern will guide our 
responses.  This is a flame free environment.  

Thus we invite you:  if you're learning the Net and want some guidance on 
doing it fast, then post an inquiry in the Finding Information Forum.  If 
you want to share your knowledge of the medium, then join your colleagues 
in the Internet Village Elders Forum and share the journey into a new 
world culture.

To all:  welcome.

R.A. "Red" Lawhern, Ph.D.
Moderator, Internet Village Elders
Internet Sleuth:  www.isleuth.com