William C. Richardson (foreground), president and chief executive officer of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, hears an update of the School of Information curriculum planning during a visit to SI.

Connectedness

• Kellogg CRISTAL-ED Electronic Mail List Discussion
  • Postings from the current discussion under way: "Instructional Development in Academic Libraries"
  • List of past and future discussion topics and postings
  • How to join the electronic mail discussion. More than 1,200 individuals from throughout the world have.

• Invited speakers and activities

• Student and alumni involvement

• Collaborative activities with other HRISM grantees

• Distance-independent learning
  • Concept of and examples of distance-independent learning courses
  • A look inside the classroom
  • SI 529: "Sources of General Information"
  • SI 609: "Impact of New Information Resources: Multimedia and Networks"

• The Association for Library and Information Science Education Institutional Members, a list of graduate library schools whose first professional degree programs have been approved by the American Library Association's Committee on Accreditation

• Background of Student Projects
  • Student Projects

• Suggestions from SI alumni

Librarians learn about the World Wide Web at an Internet Public Library Workshop. This summer, the IPL staff will again give some "how-to" information as part of the School's continuing education program, the Digital Tool Kit.

Continuing Education

• Summer Institutes and Continuing Education Workshops

• "Testing a New Design for Subject Access to Online Catalogs"
  • This report describes a research project that tested a new subject access design. The new design enlisted search trees to determine which subject searching approach was most likely to succeed at providing useful information in response to user queries.

• Digital Tool Kit

• Public library workshop

Pilot Projects

• Kellogg Community Networking Initiative
  • Background: Community Networking Initiative Report
  • Greater Flint Community Networking Initiative
  • Dedication of the Flint Community Networking Initiative Training Center
  • Media coverage of the Flint project

• Life and Works of Newbery Award-Winner Marguerite DeAngeli

• Internet Public Library
  • Background: Internet Public Library Report
  • Web site: Internet Public Library
  • IPL in action: Teaching Web skills to librarians
  • Funding: IPL receives grant
  • Collaboration: IPL/HTI join forces

• Cultural Heritage Initiative for Community Outreach
  • Web site: Cultural Heritage Initiative for Community Outreach