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Connect @ McMillan Programs
The Library, in cooperation with Wood County Telephone Company, regularly
provides basic and specialized Internet training sessions. These are free
and open to the public. Call the Library or check our newsletter for dates
and times. Below are the handouts from most of the classes. They contain
all the hints, suggestions and links discussed in the sessions.
Searching the Internet
Digital cameras
An Introduction to the Internet (McMillan's
version)
Buy and selling on eBay
Internet genealogy
Using Social Software: IM, MySpace and YouTube.
Helping with homework.
Digitization
Digitizing Local History -
The McMillan Experience
The online outline of a presentation by Assistant Director Andy Barnett
and Head of Adult Services Donald Litzer covering how and why McMillan
developed a digitization program and how the methods used can be adapted
by other libraries .
Local History in E-Books and on the Web
: One library's experience as example and model by Don Litzer and Andy
Barnett. (from the Spring 2004 Reference and Users Services Quarterly)
Digitizing Local History
on a Budget
The handout from Talk Table hosted by Asst. Director Andy Barnett at
Public Library Association Conference 2002.
Content That Counts: How a University Library and a Public Library
Digitized Local Content for the Web - Power
Point Version or HTML Version
The PowerPoint version of a presentation by Asst. Director Andy Barnett
and Arne Arneson and Dave Timm of the University of Wisconsin - Stevens
Point at the Wisconsin Library Association's Fall 2001 conference.
Digitization
for Librarians
This program on digitizing local historical documents was presented at the
2001 Wisconsin Association of Public Librarians Convention by Asst. Director Andy
Barnett. He has revised it to address concerns raised about the problems
of digitizing on (or without) a budget.
Selection criteria
The guidelines that McMillan has developed to evaluate and prioritize
items being considered for digitization.
Copyright Clearance
The form that McMillan has developed to obtain copyright clearance from
authors or their heirs.
Dublin Core Metadata
Template
A simple form to develop metadata for digitized content.
Highsmith Acceptance Speech.
As presented at the 2002 WLA Awards Banquet.
Local Internet Access Providers and
Computer Groups
Charter
Pipeline
Go 2 America
T-Net
Voyager.Net
Wood County Telephone Company \WCTC.NET
- They also allow web access
to their e-mail.
Rapid River PC Users Group is a
local computer users organization that meets monthly to share computer
problems and solutions.
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