Carole Leita,
Internet Librarian

I am an instructor and consultant for the California State Library Infopeople Project. I teach staff from California libraries how to use the Web for Ready Reference and a basic skills workshop on doing a reference interview.

Until October, 2001, when I retired from full-time (and more) work, I was the coordinator of the Librarians' Index to the Internet, I had updated the LII weekly since it started as my gopher bookmark file in mid-1990. From 1994 to early 1996 it was known as the Berkeley Public Library Index to the Internet. We have been awarded LSTA grants from the California State Library from 1997-2001 to produce a training manual for indexers, train California librarians to become indexers, and enhance the indexing and searching functions of the database. As of October, 2000 the LII has been operationally funded by the Library of California.

The California State Library/Library of California newsletter Connections October, 2000 issue has a cover story on the LII (in PDF). For a substantive review, see Peter Jacsó's Librarians' Index to the Internet in the March 2001 Digital Reference Review.

I was a Reference Librarian at the Berkeley Public Library from 1978 to March, 1997. I really love living in Berkeley and used to take a lot more advantage of the many wonders of the San Francisco Bay Area before I discovered the Internet!

The Berkeley Public Library began offering public access to the Internet January 9, 1995, as part of the InFoPeople Project. I was appointed Internet Librarian to coordinate the project, administer the system, and train the staff and community volunteers.

• Résumé, including workshop materials and publications.
• Personal interests.
• Krueger Family Farm, my sister's Web site.