Getting to know Internet
Twenty-one Central and Eastern European information specialists and librarians are ready to teach others how to use the Internet. They attended a two-day Internet train-the-trainers workshop at the REC head office in Budapest in March. Computer training experts Roy Tennant, Czeslaw Grycz, and Barbara Rodes taught the librarians and information specialists where to find different kinds of data and how to carry out on-line computer searches. But Judit Bouabdallah, the REC's main librarian, found TennantŐs suggestions on netiquette (Internet etiquette) the most helpful. "Everything he said was easy to understand and easy to apply," she said. The workshop participants are now ready to train others back in their home countries in their own native languages. The US Agency for International Assistance funded the workshop.
Immediately following the Internet training workshop the International Organization of Information Specialists elected a new president during its second annual meeting.
IOIS is a decentralized individual membership organization whose purpose is to promote collaboration and to stimulate exchange on all aspects of information.
Contact:
Jiri Dlouhy
President, IOIS
Charles University Center for Environmental Scholarship
Petrska 3, 110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
Tel: (42-2) 231-5334
Fax: (42-2) 231-4324
E-mail: jiri.dlouhy@ruk.cuni.cz
THE BULLETIN * SPRING 1995