Abstract

This paper describes the first phase of an Internet overview training program, presented to academic staff at the University of Sydney. Following a brief introduction, trainers presented a comprehensive overview of the Internet using NCSA Mosaic and Netscape as presentation tools.The program used locally created, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents with live and ‘canned’ links to Internet tools and resources. Participants were then presented with a ‘things to see’ home page on individual work stations and were free to explore areas of interest using this home page as a starting point. They were also provided with their own Mac and DOS disks as handouts, each with a World Wide Web browser and local HTML documents, some of which contained links to Internet tools and resources.A list of subject librarians and departmental technical people willing to provide follow-up assistance was provided, as well as a hard copy outline of the entire session. The outline included Universal Resource Locaters (URLs) a...

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