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[Harvard Internet seminars - Dec 8, 1993 (fwd)]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell N Charity)
Tue Nov 30 19:07:49 1993

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 19:06:13 EST
From: mcharity@hq.lcs.mit.edu (Mitchell N Charity)
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: mcharity@lcs.mit.edu

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 15:44:47 -0800
Reply-To: net-happenings@is.internic.net
From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
To: mcharity@hq.lcs.mit.edu

Forwarded by Gleason Sackman - InterNIC net-happenings moderator
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 13:54:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Julie Wetherill <HDOC1@HARVARDA.BITNET>
Subject: December 8th Internet Fair
 
An all-day event sponsored by the Harvard University Libraries and the
Office for Information Technology featuring demonstrations of tools and
resources the Internet.  Internet Fair sessions will be held at a variety
of locations across the campus.  Call 495-9862 and leave a message to
obtain a schedule or see the December issue of _Technology Window_.
issue of Technology Window.
 
Internet Fair Program
 
General Interest Sessions
 
-- Campus Information on the Internet: Harvard and Beyond, 10:00, 2:00/
3rd Floor Conference Room, OIT, 1730 Cambridge St. (Amy Lozano)

-- The Internet for Beginners: What it Is and How to Get Started, 9:30,
1:30/Auditorium, 5th Floor, Countway Library (Jean Charbonneau)

-- Weather Information Sources on the Internet, 11:00/room 88, Widener
Library (Jeffrey Beall)

-- Special Collections Resources on the Internet, 4:00/room 88, Widener
Library (Nancy Reinhardt, Virginia Smyers, Leslie Morris)

-- Computer Chronicles/The Internet, all day PBS TV broadcast/Science
Center lobby.
 
Science and Medicine
 
-- Biological Resources on the Internet, 11:00, 3:00/room 163,
Biological Laboratories Library, 16 Divinity Ave. (Dorothy Solbrig;
limited space, first come, first served)

-- Cambridge: Surfing the Internet for Biomedical Information, noon/
Pierce Hall, room 209; 2:30/Lecture Hall A, Science Center (Cindy Schatz)
 
-- Biodiversity and Biological Collections Gopher (IBM PC),
9:00, 1:00/Reading Room, Botany Libraries, 22 Divinity Ave., 2nd Floor
(Jean Cargill)

-- Biodiversity and Biological Collections Gopher (Macintosh),11:00,
3:00/Reference Room, Museum of Comparative Zoology Library,
26 Divity Ave., 2nd Floor (Mary Brockenbrough)

-- Medical Area: Molecular Biology Information on the Internet,
11:30, 3:30/ Auditorium, 5th floor, Countway Library (Betsy Like)

-- Medical Area: Surfing the Internet for Biomedical Information,
10:30, 2:30/Auditorium, 5th Floor, Countway Library (John Carper)

-- Medical Area: Searching Countway Plus on the Internet, 12:30,
4:30/ Auditorium, 5th floor, Countway Library  (Susan Whitehead)

-- Internet Resources for Physics: Preprint Servers,
Libraries, and Bibliographic/Numerical Data Bases, 9:00, 4:00/room 454,
Jefferson Lab, Physics Research Library, 17 Oxford St. (Michael Leach)

-- NASA's Astrophysics Data System: Distributed Data Base
with Graphic Interface to Astronomy Catalogs and Archives
Across the Country, 1:00/Pratt Conference Room, Center for
Astrophysics, 60 Garden St. (Carolyn Stern Grant)

-- SIMBAD: Object-Oriented Data Base of Astronomical Data,
2:00/Pratt Conference Room, Center for Astrophysics,
60 Garden St.  (Joyce Watson)
 
Humanities, Professional Schools, and Social Sciences
 
-- ERIC (education data base), 11:00, 1:00/Conference Center,
Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way (Kathleen Donovan and Marcella Flaherty)

-- Public Policy Sources on the Internet, 1:30, 3:30/
Weiner Auditorium, Taubman Center, Kennedy School of Government
(Ellen Isenstein and Diane Garner)

-- Influencing Public Policy: Internet Resources for Lesbians, Gays,
and Bisexuals, 9:00, 3:00/Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave.
(Gloria Korsman and Charles Outcalt)

-- Internet Resources for Historians, 10:00/room 88, Widener
Library (Barbara Burg and Deborah Kelley-Milburn)

-- Internet Resources in South Asian, Southeast Asian, and East
Asian Studies, 9:00, 11:00/Conference Room, HUL Office for Information
Systems, 1280 Mass Ave, 4th Floor, Suite 404 (Raymond Lum;
limited space, first come, first served)

-- Resources for the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East:
Beyond E-mail, 5:10/Andover-Harvard Library, 45 Francis Ave.
(Clifford Wunderlich, McAfee, Prof. JoAnn Hackett)

-- Resources for Studying and Teaching World Religions, 4:00/
Center for Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave.
(Clifford Wunderlich and Tim Bryson)

-- Women's Studies Resources on the Internet, 10:00, 2:00/
Reference Room, Schlesinger Library, 3 James St. (Wendy Thomas;
limited space, first come, first served)

-- Accessing the Internet Harvard Business School Catalog
of Teaching Materials, 11:00, 1:00/3rd floor, OIT, 1730 Cambridge St.
(Lisa Santoro and Kate Conti)
 
Tools
 
-- Gopher, An Internet Tool for Searching Library Catalogs, 9:00, 10:00,
1:00, 12:00/ Training Room, Suite 404, HUL Office for Information
Systems, 1280 Mass Ave., 4th Floor, Suite 404 (Richard Hungerford;
limit: 10 people, first come, first erved)

-- The FAS Gopher Server, 11:00/Science Center B09, and 3:00/
Science Center D (Michael Burner)

-- Exploratorium: Open Gopher Lab (Macintosh), 9:30-11:30/
Macintosh Training Classroom, 3rd floor, OIT, 1730 Cambridge St.
assistants available for questions; call 495-1221 to reserve a
time: maximum half hour/person).

-- Anonymous FTP (IBM PC with direct HSDN connection), 9:00/
IBM Training Classroom, 3rd floor, OIT, 1730 Cambridge St.
(Suzana Lisanti; call 495-1221 to reserve a place)

-- Anonymous FTP (IBM PC with Procomm Plus dial-up connection),
10:00/IBM Training Classroom, 3rd floor, OIT, 1730 Cambridge St.
(Suzana Lisanti; call 495-1221 to reserve a place)

-- Anonymous FTP (Macintosh with White Knight dial-up connection),
11:00/Macintosh Training Classroom, 3rd floor, OIT, 1730 Cambridge St.
(Suzana Lisanti; call 495-1221 to reserve a place).
 
For more information, please leave a message on 495-9862 (voice mailbox).


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