Web-based course - Register to work -at-your-own-pace anytime
This course is an introduction to the essential skills and knowledge needed for beginning genealogical researchers using the Web as both an information resource and a communications tool.
Several excellent reference and documentation search tools for genealogical researchers have been published on the Web by academic, scholarly, volunteer, or commercial compilers. This course focusses on the Web reference tools that are free, high quality, and most useful.
The Web is used as a communications and networking tool for genealogical researchers. Many archives, genealogical societies and libraries have a Web presence that may provide documents and data as well as the information required for planning travel and inter-library borrowing for genealogical research.
Part 4 is an introduction to the essential skills and knowledge needed for beginning genealogical researchers using the Web as both an information resource and a communications tool to establish and research international, African American, and/or Native American ancestors on the Web. Note: This courses begins at the point where the researcher has documented the existance of an ancestor from another country, or an Native American ancestor. In order to research Native American ancestors it is essential that a tribal identity be known.
Part 1 is an introduction to the essential skills and knowledge needed for beginning genealogical researchers using the Web as both an information resource and a communications tool.
Part 2 covers several excellent reference and documentation search tools for genealogical researchers that have been published on the Web by academic, scholarly, volunteer, or commercial compilers. This course focuses on the Web reference tools that are free, high quality, and most useful.
Part 3 teaches how the Web is used as a communications and networking tool for genealogical researchers. Many archives, genealogical societies and libraries have a Web presence that may provide documents and data as well as the information required for planning travel and inter-library borrowing for genealogical research.
Part 4 is an introduction to the essential skills and knowledge needed for beginning genealogical researchers using the Web as both an information resource and a communications tool to establish and research international, African American, and/or Native American ancestors on the Web. Note: This course begins at the point where the researcher has documented the existence of an ancestor from another country, or an Native American ancestor. In order to research Native American ancestors it is essential that a tribal identity be known. The syllabus is online at http://www.kovacs.com/genweb.html
Anyone who has Web access and an interest in genealogical research will find this course useful. The course is designed specifically for librarians and others who assist genealogical researchers.
Register for Genealogical Research
on the Web: Reference, Networking, and Archives (free but registration is required)
Recommended Text:
by
Diane K. Kovacs. 2002. Neal-Schuman
Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet & Web Training. She has more than 15 years of experience as a Web Teacher and Consultant. Diane has been designing and teaching Web-based MLA Approved CE Courses since 2001. She also designs and teaches Web-based courses for UIUC GSLIS LEEP, the ACRL, and other organizations.
The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E-Mail Environments by Kovacs, Diane K. Neal-Schuman Publishers (2007) published concurrently in the United Kingdom by Facet Publishers (2007) The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines by Kovacs, Diane K. & Robinson, Kara L. was published in 2004 by Neal-Schuman Publishers.
Genealogical Research on Web was published in 2002 . How to Find Medical Information on the Internet: A Print and Online Tutorial for the Health Care Professional and Consumer (2000) (Library Solutions Press) and Building Electronic Library Collections: The Essential Guide to Selection Criteria and Core Collections (Neal-Schuman) were both published in 2000.
Diane's first book The Internet Trainer's Guide , was published in 1995. The Internet Trainer's Total Solution Guide was published in 1997. She has also co-authored with her husband Michael Kovacs, Cybrarians Guide to Successful Internet Programs and Services which was published by Neal-Schuman in 1997.
Diane Kovacs is the 2000 recipient of the "Documents to the People" award from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association. She was also the recipient of the Apple Corporation Library's, Internet Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association's first recipient of the Leadership Award in 1996. Since 1990 she has been the editor-in-chief of the Directory of Scholarly and Professional Electronic Conferences.
Diane received an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and an M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from Kent State University in 1993. She has a B.A. in Anthropology also from the University of Illinois, 1985.
