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Hands-on CyberTours
Monday  •  Tuesday  •  Wednesday
Join our Web experts for morning cybertours and evening cybercruises in the Factiva Exchange located in the exhibition area. You will be met at the exhibition hall entrance and escorted to your personal workstation complete with light snacks appropriate to the time of day. But best of all, you will be led by experts through a hands-on cybertour of the subject of your choice.  Sign up quickly — space is definitely limited for this exclusive offer!  You will receive the URL so that you can study cybertour locations further following the event.
 
 
The Exchange, sponsored by Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive), will be open during exhibit hours for checking e-mail and surfing the net.

MONDAY
 
CyberTour 1
09:00 - 9:45
Bates’ Best Business Sites
Mary Ellen Bates, author of Super Searchers Do Business, shares her favorite sites for gathering information on companies, their competitors, and industries.  Expect to get wired on good coffee and good sites.  Join us to see the best of business on the Web for business sources.
 
 
CyberCruise 2
18:00 - 18:45
Abram’s Kool Sites for Knowledge Management Resources
Stephen Abram, Vice President, IHS Micromedia & author of Post Information Age Positioning for Special Librarians: Is Knowledge Management the Answer, describes his favorite sites for getting ideas and keeping up with the proliferation of information on knowledge management practices.  See if you can keep up with him on this whirlwind tour through KM Land!
 
 
CyberCruise 3
18:45 - 19:30
Notess’ Notable Government Sites
Greg Notess, Reference Librarian, Montana State University-Bozeman Library, Webmaster of Search Engine Showdown http://notess.com/search/, & author of Government Information on the Internet, shares his extensive knowledge of critical government sites worldwide.


TUESDAY
 
 
CyberTour 4
08:15 - 09:00
Cool Legal Sites
This cruise illustrates key sites for legal research.  From legislation to case law, public records to legal news, we’ll see all the best ports, not to mention the most important stops for Internet travellers trying to find their way to legal meta-sites.
 
 
CyberTour 5
09:00 - 9:45
Bates’ Best Business Sites
Mary Ellen Bates, author of Super Searchers Do Business, shares her favorite sites for gathering information on companies, their competitors, and industries.  Expect to get wired on good coffee and good sites.  Join us to see the best of business on the Web for business sources.
 
 
CyberCruise 6
18:00 - 18:45
Bates’ Best Business Sites
Mary Ellen Bates, author of Super Searchers Do Business, shares her favorite sites for gathering information on companies, their competitors, and industries.  Expect to get renewed and refreshed with good spirits and good sites.  Join us to see the best of business on the Web for business sources.
 
 
CyberCruise 7
18:45 - 19:30
Notess’ Notable Government Sites
Greg Notess, Reference Librarian, Montana State University-Bozeman Library, Webmaster of Search Engine Showdown http://notess.com/search/, & author of Government Information on the Internet, shares his extensive knowledge of critical government sites worldwide.
 


WEDNESDAY
 
 
CyberTour 8
08:15 - 09:00
Helfer's Sizzling Science Sites
Doris Helfer, former Sciences Librarian at California State Univeristy looks at some of the gems of science Web sites.  She’ll travel around Web sites in the areas of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, computer science as well as geology.  The cyberscience world tour will take you all over the globe without leaving the Exchange.
 
 
CyberTour 9
09:00 - 9:45
Sherman’s Key Consumer Health Information Sites
Judy Sherman, of the California Endowment, directs this cybertour to sites that provide critical health information.  Whether it is information about a health care provider, some new treatment, or any of the other infinite health issues that confront the health consumer, the wealth of information can be daunting.  Sherman shares her compendium of Web sites providing consumer health.