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- 1993 ISOC Trustee Elections
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- Nominated Candidate
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- Jean Polly
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- jpolly@nysernet.org
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- My resume follows. If you wanted to categorize my Internet involvement,
- you might say I speak for "the little guy". I believe access to information
- is of paramount importance to developing countries and developing humans. I
- am a proponent of K-12 access, public library access, and individual
- access.
- I have been a user of the Internet for three years; only in the past two
- years have I become something of a national spokesperson for public
- libraries and the Internet.
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- Jean Armour Polly
- Manager of Network Development and User Training
- NYSERNet, Inc.
- 111 College Place Rm. 3-211
- Syracuse, NY 13244-4100
- 315 443-4120
- FAX 315 425 7518
- jpolly@nysernet.org
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- Education
- MS Library Science,1975, Syracuse University.
- BA Selected Studies in Medieval Literature,1974, Syracuse University.
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- Experience
- 10/19/92- present
- Manager of Network Development and User Training
- NYSERNet, Inc.
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- 1980 - 10/9/92
- Assistant Director for Public Services and
- Head, Microcomputer Department
- Liverpool Public Library, 310 Tulip Street,
- Liverpool, NY 13088 (315) 457-0310
- Director, Fay Ann Golden
- Supervises public computer lab. Collects, catalogs, and maintains software
- collections.
- Responsible for the planning and maintenance of the library staff local
- area network.
- Seeks and administers grants such as Apple Library of Tomorrow (1990),
- Library of Congress American Memory Project Beta Site (1991-92) and
- NYSERNet Internet connection grant (1991-92).
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- 1976 - 1980
- Periodicals and Serials Librarian, Liverpool Public Library.
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- Professional Affiliations
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- Member, American Library Association.
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- Member, Library and Information Technology Association.
- Elected to LITA Board, 92-95.
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- Member, Public Library Association
- 1988 - 1992
- Chair, Program Planning Sub-Committee,Technology in Public Libraries
- Committee. Responsible for all phases of program development and logistics
- for various Convention programming.
- 1983 - present
- Variously involved with the Task Force on Computers in Public Libraries.
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- Member, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
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- Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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- Member, Internet Society.
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- June, 1990- Co-sigop, Apple Library User's Group Online Conference on the
- WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), Sausalito, CA.
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- Publications
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- Books
- Series Editor Essential Guide to Apple Computers in Libraries, Meckler
- Publishing Corporation.
- Author of Public Technology : the Library Public Access Computer (1986)
- ISBN 0-88736-049-1
- Co-author of Hardware: Expansion and Set-up (1987)
- ISBN 0-88736-075-0
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- Selected Articles
- A complete bibliography will be provided if required.
- Numerous articles have appeared in professional journals such as Small
- Computers in Libraries, ONLINE, LaserDisk Professional, Wilson Library
- Bulletin, American Libraries.
- Topics have ranged from "Surfing the Internet" to LANS in libraries.
- Additionally, Polly writes the Computer Currents monthly column in Library
- Journal, which has a global circulation of almost 30,000. Polly appeared on
- the cover of the 9/1/92 issue, and will be starting a column about the
- Internet in summer of 1993.
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- Selected Invited Papers
- A complete list will be provided if required.
- For example, in 1992, Polly spoke at numerous conferences, including
- National Net'92, Computers, Freedom & Privacy II, EDUCOM, University of
- Michigan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Maine Library
- Association, Nevada Library Association, and about thirty other venues.
- The topic was "Surfing the Internet"; how small libraries and schools can
- get connected to the Internet, and why the public needs access to the NREN.
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- Personal
- Married with one six year old son.
- Has way too many computers in her house, including her beloved Macintosh
- FX.
- Has 2 indoor and 2 outdoor cats, and a small flock of Indian Runner ducks
- (for entertainment purposes only).
- Recent home projects: building a garden pond and restoring an antique
- carousel horse.
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- Other Board experience:
- ASTRIDE Board, 1990-1991.
- Therapeutic horseback riding for the physically and mentally challenged.
- Friends of Historic Onondaga Lake,1990-1995.
- Living history museum at a Colonial site in Central NY.
- MacEvangelists Macintosh User Group, 1987-1992.
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- Nominator's comments:
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- I would would like to put Jean Armour Polly's name in nomination for
- election to the Board of Trustees.
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- Jean Armour Polly is the Manager of Network Development & User Training at
- NYSERNet, Inc. Prior to this, Jean served as Assistant Director for Public
- Services and Head of the Microcomputer Department at Liverpool (NY) Public
- Library. The Liverpool Public Library is one of the smallest public
- libraries with an Internet node, through a grant from NYSERNet, a fact
- noted by Vint Cerf in his Spring 1992 "INET News" President's Message.
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- While at the Liverpool Public Library, Jean founded and managed a public
- computer lab with a circulating software collection, a highly unusual
- activity for a US public library. The Library enjoys an international
- reputation for its proactive stance in furthering public technology.
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- Jean received her BA in Medieval Studies at Syracuse University in 1974,
- and her MS in Library Science from the same University in 1975.
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- She has written two books on public technology and is a frequent
- contributor to library literature and speaker on the lecture circuit. She
- also writes the monthly "Computer Currents" column for Library Journal and
- co-moderates the Apple Library User's Group discussion conference on the
- WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA). She is the co-moderator
- of the about-to-be announced listserv for public libraries on the Internet:
- PUBLIB.
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- She is active in the American Library Association and the Public Library
- Association, and is a member of the Library and Information Technology
- Association's Board of Directors. Besides the Internet Society, Jean holds
- memberships in CPSR and EFF.
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- Jean is an advocate of public use of the Internet, and public library
- participation in the NREN.
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- She may be reached at: jpolly@nysernet.org
- or otherwise: Jean Armour Polly
- Manager of Network Development & User Training
- NYSERNet, Inc.
- 111 College Place Syracuse, NY 13244
- 315/ 443-4120.... FAX 315/425-7518....
-