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IRO Visits to Provide Internet Training

 
Embassy staff member Vimol Dalaloy and IRC Director Wendy Simmons lecture to fellow librarians on web searching
The whole world (wide web) is in your hands
Bangkok IRO Wendy Simmons and Vientiane IRC Director Vimol Dalaloy presented a lecture on Internet searching skills for the benefit students at the Faculty of Engineering in Vientiane and at the Souphanouvong University outside of Luang Prabang. In a country with low bandwidth and few home users, getting the most out of money spent at Internet cafes is an incentive to good searching.

Introducing them to ideas of evaluating web sites and proper format for citation of online sources reinforced the ethics of information use. Vimol and Wendy also gave a presentation on Social Networking in US Libraries to a group of professional information workers organized by the National Library of Laos. The demonstration of Wikipedia in Thai was especially well received.

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