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The Internet and the Transformation of Three Communities: Forum on
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Monica Berger)
Wed Jan 20 20:07:19 1999
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:03:47 -0500
From: Monica Berger <monicaberger@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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The Special Libraries Association, New York Chapter, Social Sciences Group
is proud to announce an upcoming forum,
THE INTERNET AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THREE COMMUNITIES: Visually
Impaired; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered; and Urban, Low-Income
=FD How do different communities use the Internet and how has it changed
these communities?
=FD Has the Internet lived up to its promise as a tool to educate, empower
and overcome isolation?
=FD What is virtual community? How does it relate to traditional =
communities?
Join us for a provocative forum that will consider the Internet in its most
real and powerful form--as a means of transformation for individuals and
their respective communities.
Speakers:
Gregory Rosmaita, American Foundation for the Blind; World Wide Web =
Consortium
Tim Roberts, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center (New York's only health
care center primarily serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
community)
Liz Cahill, BrookLynX (online community information network and
Internet/Web publishing training programs serving low-income neighborhoods
in Brooklyn)
date & time: Wednesday, February 24, 5:30-7:30 p.m. (social hour from 5:30
to 6:30)
place: Rockefeller Foundation, 420 Fifth Ave., 23rd Fl., betw. 37-38 St.
entrance
For more information, contact Monica Berger, Libraries for the Future,
mberger@lff.org, (212) 352-2330.
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Please r.s.v.p. by email, fax or mail by February 17 to: Michele LaBella,
Catalyst Information Center, 120 Wall Street, 5th Fl., New York, NY 10005.
Phone: (212) 514-7600, x312, Fax: (212) 514-8470, email:
mlabella@catalystwomen.org
Name:______________________________________________________________________=
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Affiliation:_______________________________________________________________=
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Phone:_________________ Fax:_________________ Email:_______________________=
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Monica Berger
Librarian (mberger@lff.org)
Libraries for the Future
121 W. 27th Street, Suite 1102
New York, NY 10001
tel: 212-352-2330/800-542-1918
fax: 212-352-2342
www.lff.org
