Professional information and current projects

• Resume and professional information.
  
• PROJECT ONE: Full text of "Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History" online. (See also Project Three below.)
  
• PROJECT TWO: "Intelligent" Web pages for reference assistance:
  • At Swarthmore College in 1994-95, I put together an experimental Web-based reference helper called SCHOLAR (Swarthmore College On Line Assistant for Reference).  This site is no longer online, but a version of it tailored to MSU holdings can be seen as MSOLAR. Caution: links on this site are not regularly maintained, but the general design is still apparent.
  • A page of links to Web-based reference schemes.
  • A GD/SSHR training page on reference Web sites at university libraries.
  • An outgrowth of this project appeared as an article on "A Typology for Ready Reference Web Sites in Libraries" in the online journal, First Monday.
    
• PROJECT THREE: A Web page with annotated links to full text sources on Balkan and East European history would be useful for high school and college students, who like to work with Internet sources: it would recommend stable sites from reliable sources, mainly in English, on historical topics for which information is not widely available.  The interim list is now long enough that it has its own page.

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