cooperative home page effort in public libraries

[John Walker]

At 10:34 AM 3/17/98 -0800, you wrote:
>We are doing a program throughout March Break here at Parkdale called
>"Awesome Websearching".  We are challenging the kids to collect and
>suggest Web sites on five different topics.  The final goal is to have a
>group of teens join a Parkdale Teen Home Page Club which would
>prepare a small Parkdale teen site collecting all these web pages (after
>screening from us of course).  As we are in the process of determining
>the best course to take on this project, we would like to know what other
>libraries have done with similar projects.  e.g. we could have a link from
>our Home Page, "Parkdale Teens recommend".
>I'd love to receive some feedback on this topic.
>Dorota Rajewska
>Toronto Public Library (South Region)
>

You can check:

http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker

Select:

--> Internet Resources and then
--> Search the 'Net 

This page has tutorials on how to search, how the various search
engines work and some specialized search engines.





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