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=== Career History === | === Career History === | ||
| − | *Before joining Liverpool Public Lirary, she was the Director of Public Services and Internet Ambassador at [[NYSERNet]], Inc. | + | *Before joining Liverpool Public Lirary, she was the Director of Public Services and Internet Ambassador at [[NYSERNet]], Inc.<ref>[http://www.laplaza.org/about_lap/archives/cn96/listnr.html laplaza.com]</ref> |
*Prior to that, Jean was a public librarian for sixteen years. | *Prior to that, Jean was a public librarian for sixteen years. | ||
*She co-owns and co-moderates PUBLIB, the Internet discussion list for public librarians. | *She co-owns and co-moderates PUBLIB, the Internet discussion list for public librarians. | ||
| + | *She is also a member of the American Library Association. | ||
| + | *She was elected to the Internet Society Board of Trustees, she is one of the two first women to have been elected. | ||
| + | *She is the owner of [[Netmom.com]], a website where she reviews websites for kids and families, thus the name Net-mom. She has also publish the The Internet Kids Yellow Pages, and The Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages.<ref>[http://www.familyguidebook.com/book/24.html familyguidebook.com]</ref> | ||
| + | *She was a part of the project GAIN, which helped in connecting the rural public libraries to the Internet. | ||
| − | + | === External Links === | |
| − | + | *[http://www.netmom.com Netmom.com] | |
| − | + | *[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49 Surfing the Internet] | |
=== References === | === References === | ||
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | mom [at] netmom.com |
| Facebook: |  [jean.polly Jean Armour Polly]
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| LinkedIn: |  [jean-armour-polly Jean Armour Polly]
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| Twitter: |  @netmom
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Jean Armour Polly works as the Assistant Director and Administrator of Systems and Technology at the Liverpool Public Library. She is renowned as the Net-mom.
Jean is also the website review editor at CommonSenseMedia.org. She has been a board member at Internet Society (ISOC).[1]. Jean has the distinction of publishing the first book on the web in 2000.[2] She coined the term surfing for browsing internet sites. [3]. Jean Armour Polly is the author of The Internet Kids Yellow Pages. She has interests in promoting internet.
Career History
- Before joining Liverpool Public Lirary, she was the Director of Public Services and Internet Ambassador at NYSERNet, Inc.[4]
- Prior to that, Jean was a public librarian for sixteen years.
- She co-owns and co-moderates PUBLIB, the Internet discussion list for public librarians.
- She is also a member of the American Library Association.
- She was elected to the Internet Society Board of Trustees, she is one of the two first women to have been elected.
- She is the owner of Netmom.com, a website where she reviews websites for kids and families, thus the name Net-mom. She has also publish the The Internet Kids Yellow Pages, and The Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages.[5]
- She was a part of the project GAIN, which helped in connecting the rural public libraries to the Internet.