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
Buy and selling on eBay
Internet genealogy 
Connecting with Friends and Family

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This program on digitizing local historical documents was presented at the 2001 Wisconsin Association of Public Librarians Convention by Asst.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.