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Where do I go to find what I need? This presentation is the 2005 version for John Lenger's Principles of Journalism (CREA E-135) class at the Harvard Extension School on Wednesday, March, 9, 2005. It introduces using public records, people, businesses, archives, databases, and the Internet for research. It's very similar to presentations I've given on February 11, 2004, February 26, 2003, and October 7, 2002.

Feeds and Knowledge Management (pdf) While showing how RSS and Atom feeds can contribute to knowledge management, these slides also give a basic introduction to the technology, how to use them, and how to find them.

Most of the talks I've given recently about weblogs are on j's scratchpad.

Harvard News Office Image Collection. This presentation covers the status of the Harvard News Office photo collection in 2001. I presented it at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference 2001 in San Antonio on Wednesday, June 13, 2001.

HTML Workshop for Luz Quiroga's LIS 551 on April 27 and May 4, 2000. This Web page covers the introduction and advanced sessions of this workshop.

HTML Introduction Workshop Help Sheet for February 29, March 22, and March 27, 2000 . This session covers the basics of HTML code, including an introduction to HTML, basic tags, and some design issues.

HTML Advanced Workshop Help Sheet for March 28, April 3, and April 5, 2000. This workshop discusses images, tables, lists, style sheets, and metadata in HTML code. The next session is on April 5 at 9 am. If you attended one of the HTML Introduction sessions and still have the page you created, please bring it along to continue to develop and practice on. If you do not have a page from the Introduction workshop, either bring another HTML page or be prepared to make a basic page during the first part of class. Each workshop is in the SLIS computer lab on the fourth floor of Helen C. White.

Memorial Library's Reference Policy, Or Observations on How I Spent My Practicum Experience: The major assignment for LIS 825: Advanced Reference is a practicum at a library focusing on reference services of a minimum of 40 hours. I completed my practicum at Memorial Library, the largest and busiest campus library and the most demanding practicum experience. I spent about 15 hours training for duty (including workshops on electronic resources, introductions to reference procedures, tours of the library, and juice and cookies) with supervisor Elizabeth Breed and almost an additional 50 hours staffing the reference desk with a librarian, usually Helene Androski. At the end of the semester, each student wrote a paper and gave a presentation on her experiences covering specific topics. Since there were five other students doing practica at Memorial Library, we agreed to divide the topics among ourselves. I chose to focus on the reference policy.

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