Guide for Librarians, Parents, Teachers
and Library Patrons
Internet Users' Guide
This page is intended as a starting point for exploring the internet. Most
of the bookmarks listed here I discovered through electronic mailing lists.
I subscribe to dozens of lists and usually receive 30 or 40 messages daily.
If You Are in a Public Library
or community center, please check the house rules. For
example, at the Free Library of Philadelphia's Logan Branch, where I'm
a tech volunteer, only three computers are available for internet access
and computer time is reserved for web searching.
Logan Branch patrons are not permitted to use these computers for email. I hope eventually Logan will have enough computers to allow patrons time for mail. For now, I say to library staff, and anyone ...
If You Have Access to Email,
USE IT!
Explore the mailing lists, contact an old friend, find
an international penpal, subscribe to a free news service. The Internet
started with email, and email remains its most powerful tool in many respects.
I especially recommend exploring the topical and regional mailing lists. Check out Dave Butler's Guide to Electronic Mailing Lists, Mailing Lists for Librarians and Mailing Lists for Teachers.
If You Don't Have an Email Account
there are many research tools available which do not
require email. Logan's Intro to Netscape lesson plan includes info on two
important research tools, Search Engines and Directories.
Intro to Netscape
This lesson was written originally for an Intro to Netscape series of two
one-hour sessions with a group of 9-12-year-olds, offered by the Technical
Team at Logan Library in December, 1997. Here's the Lesson
Plan.
Make Your Own Bookmarks
Bookmarks are page markers which remember the address
of each site you mark. Netscape users, on the Bookmarks menu select the
Add Bookmark option.
Bookmarks for Computer Users
at Logan Library
Assembled by Dave Butler, Tech Volunteer at Logan, these bookmarks are
intended to serve as a starting point for the tech team at Logan Library
to develop a much shorter list of most valuable bookmarks, to be placed
on the library workstations. Ideally, each of the dozens of categories
would have its own link in a table of contents. For now, it's a large list
which I compiled in Sept and Oct of 1997, mostly following leads I found
through mailing lists for kids, teachers, and librarians (see Mailing
Lists for Librarians and Mailing
Lists for Teachers).
Not Just for Logan Library
I hope these links will be helpful to lots of folks. I look forward to
hearing your comments and suggestions.
Dave's Bookmarks for Librarians, Teachers, Parents (see Note below)
Dave's Bookmarks for Library Patrons (see Note below)
Dave's Bookmarks for Kids (see Note below)
Dave's Bookmarks are in Netscape bookmark files (Netscape's default bookmark file is called BOOKMARK.HTM). If you're using Netscape for Windows you can download a bookmark file by pressing the Shift key while clicking on the link. You can then open it under Netscape's Bookmarks menu, option Go to Bookmarks. This opens the Bookmarks window where you can select File menu, option Open.
If you'd like to add some or all of these bookmarks to your own bookmark file, follow these steps:
Pages at this Site
Internet User's Guide
Electronic Mailing Lists
Usenet News Groups
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This page written in 1997 by Dave Butler, Computer Guide
(dbut@erols.com)
while a Technical Volunteer for the Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Branch.
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