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Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@RS8.LOC.GOV>
Poster: Dawn Jaeger <djaeger@ITCTEL.COM>
Subject: Re: advice needed
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At 10:07 AM 9/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@RS8.LOC.GOV>
>Poster: "Judith K. Graves" <jgrav@LOC.GOV>
>Subject: advice needed
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---- > >Hi Fellows, > >Welcome all Fellows to the start of a new school year. The 1999 Fellows >have been added. Soon they will be testing American Memory lessons in >their classes. They heard from you at the beginning of the institute >(remember my asking you what you'd like them to know?) and I hope they'll >hear from you during this school year as well. > >We told the new Fellows that they'd be added to this list and that they >could bring comments, questions, queries, frustrations, compliments, etc. >to this list and that there were sympathetic, seasoned veterans who would >be supportive. They got a taste of this from the Fellows who came to DC to >help us with the institute. They know how wonderful y'all are. > >So do I. I now call upon you for some advice. It's time to plan next >year's institute. We are going to do this at the Library in our new >state-of-the-art Learning Center (formerly the Visitors' Center). We have >a classroom with new machines and a videoconference area. The theater area >is as you remember it. > >Two bits time about the Orientation: >1-What do you think you absolutely need to know before you come to our >institute? Hot to navigate the collections, the various tools > >2-How long do you think the orientation should be (in weeks)? > >3-What should it cover? Practice in navigating in the collections; practice with the tools of a search, posting to the internet > >4-When should it begin next year? (School begins/ends at different times >across the country. If you could be specific in your reply, it would help >us greatly.) The begin date for us was fine because we're done by Memorial Day, but I noted many were still in school in June for a couple weeks. > >5-Two more bits time.... anything else you think would make the orientation >better? I thought that the first weeks task set rather an intimidating tone for the who enterprise. Maybe we were trying to impress each other too much, but I think it may have been a little off-putting. > >Thanks for all your input on this. It will be extremely valuable in our >planning. >Judy >PS-Send replies directly to me at >PS-Send replies directly to me at jgrav@loc.gov. > >------------------------------------------------------- >Judith K. Graves >Educational Services >National Digital Library Program >Library of Congress >Washington, D.C. 20540-1320 >jgrav@loc.gov (V)202/707-2562 (F) 202/252-3173 >http://learning.loc.gov/learn/ >
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