Kovacs Consulting

Education • Professional Experience • Publications Conference Presentations • Learning Technologies • Recent public clients Special Scholarly Internet Projects • Awards and Honors Professional Memberships • Contact Information

Education

  • 1993  M.Ed. Instructional Technology, Kent State University
  • 1989  M.S. Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 1985  B.A. Anthropology (Psychology Cognate), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Professional Experience

  • Jan. 1993 to present - President, Kovacs Consulting Internet & Web Training
  • Fall 2010 to present – Lecturer, San Jose State University School of Information.
  • Fall 2003 to January 2019 - Visiting Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science - LEEP Program.
  • June 2014 to June 2016 - Project Coordinator for Design for Learning: 21st Century Online Learning for Library Workers; IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant Project with the South Central Regional Library Council of New York and the iSchool at Syracuse University. http://d4l.syr.edu/
  • January 2002 to December 2003 - Instructional Designer/Trainer Rolling Prairies Library System DRA Staff Training Program
  • March 1999 to March 2014 - Adjunct Faculty, Belmont College, Information Services Program
  • July 1999 to July 2003 Contributing Editor - Business Information, Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) Web Site.
  • January 1998 - November 2000- Instructional Designer/Trainer Columbus Metropolitan Library System
  • August 1996 to August 1998 -Adjunct Faculty, University of Akron, College of Business Administration, Continuing Studies, Center for Organizational Development and Division of Continuing Education
  • Sept. 1991 to August 1997- Adjunct Assistant Professor (Internet Training)  College of Continuing Studies and School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University
  • Sept. 1990 to Sept. 1995  Reference Librarian, Assistant Professor, Kent State University 
  • August 1989 to Sept. 1990  Reference Librarian and Government Documents Coordinator, Bucknell University 

Publications

  • Theiss, Danielle, and Kovacs, Diane K. (editors) (2013) Finding a Public Voice: Barbara Fister as a Case Study. ALA Editions: Chicago.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (2009)The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines. 2ed. Neal-Schuman Publishers: New York.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (2007)The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E-Mail Environments. Neal-Schuman Publishers: New York. published concurrently in the United Kingdom by Facet Publishers (2007)
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (2004) "Why Develop Web-Based Health Information courses for Consumers " Library Trends Vol 53(2), Fall 2004: 348-359.
  • Kovacs, Diane K and Robinson, Kara L. (2004)The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines Neal-Schuman Publishers: New York.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (2003) "Electronic Collection Development for Consumer Health Information" Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet Vol 7(4): 31-52.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (2003) "Family Trees on the Web" American Libraries Vol 34(7):44-46.
  • Kovacs, Diane K.(2002) Genealogical Research on the Web. Neal-Schuman: New York
  • Kovacs, Diane K. and Elkordy, Angela. (2000) "Collection Development in Cyberspace: Building an Electronic Library Collection" Library Hi-Tech Vol 18(4): 335-359.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. and Carlson, Ann L. (2000)How to find Medical Information on the Internet: A Print and Online Tutorial for the Healthcare Professional and Consumer. Library Solutions Press: Berkeley.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (2000) Building Electronic Library Collections: The Essential Guide to Selection Criteria and Core Subject Collections. Neal-Schuman Publishers: New York
  • Kovacs, Diane K. "Designing and Implementing Web-based Training in Libraries" SLA Business & Finance Division Bulletin, Winter 2000. (113):32-37
  • Kovacs Diane K. "Building a Core Internet Reference Collection" RQ
  • Electronic Publishing in Libraries Special Theme Editor: Library Hi-Tech Winter 1999 Vol 17(1)
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (1997).The Internet Trainer's Total Solution Guide Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishers: New York.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. and Kovacs, Michael J. (1997). Cybrarians Guide to Successful Internet Programs and Services Neal-Schuman Publishers: New York.
  • Day, Donald L. and Kovacs, Diane K. (Editors)(1996). Computers, Communication and Mental Models Taylor & Francis Publishers:London.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (1995). The Internet Trainer's Guide Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York.
  • Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists (1991-continuous) 1st-6th Ed. Association of Research Libraries: Washington, D.C. (compiled by Diane K. Kovacs, the Directory Team and ARL Staff (Drew Mogge & Patricia Brennan).
  • Kovacs, Diane K., et al. (1990-continuous)1st-15th Revisions  Directory of Scholarly and Professional Electronic Conferences
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (1996). Key Guide to Electronic Resources: Language and Literature. Information Today, Inc.:Medford,NJ. ISBN 1-57387-020-X 
  • Cartwright, Phillip and Kovacs, Diane K. (1995). Beyond E-Mail: E-Conferences and Academic Lists. CHANGE May/June :50-53.
  • Cartwright, Phillip. and Kovacs, Diane K. (1995). Beyond E-Mail: Electronic Journals.CHANGE January/February:50-52.
  • Kovacs, Diane K., Robinson, Kara L., Dixon Jeanne.(1995). Scholarly E-Conferences on the academic networks: How Library and Information Science Professionals use them. JASIS: Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 46(4): 244-53.
  • Kovacs, Diane K., Schloman, Barbara F., McDaniel Julie A. (1994). A model for planning and providing reference services using Internet resources. Library Trends. 42(4):638-647.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. and Carlson, Ann (1994). Egszsggyi informci-forrsok a BITNET/EARN s az Internet Hlzatokon. Orvosi Konyvtros 33(2):59-84. (Resources for the health sciences on the BITNET/EARN and the Internet. Medical Librarian 33(2):59-84.) 
  • Kovacs, Diane K. and Kovacs, Michael J. (1994). Creating and Maintaining Listserv Mailing Lists and Electronic Journals. In Internet Unleashed. SAMS Publishing:Indianapolis. 343-367.
  • Kovacs, Diane K., and Fleming Martha. (1993). Internet Resources and Humanities Reference Service. IN Proceedings of the 30th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, Emerging Communities: Integrating Networked In formation into Library Services. April 4-6, 1993. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Robinson, Kara and Kovacs, Diane K. (1993). LibRef-L: Sharing Reference Expertise over the Academic Networks. Wilson Library Bulletin 67(5):47-50.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (1993) The best and worst government printing office CD-ROMS: GOVDOC-L reports again. CD-ROM Professional 6(5): 58-61.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (1992). Government Printing Office CD-ROMs: Where to find information and access to government CDs. CD-ROM Professional 5(4): 23-27.
  • Kovacs, Michael J. and Kovacs, Diane K. (1991) The state of scholarly electronic conferencing. ENRAP: Electronic Networking Research, Applications, and Policy, 1(2): 29-36.
  • Mckinzie, Steve and Kovacs, Diane K. (1991) E-Mail discussion lists: A new dimension in resource sharing IN (eds.) Cargill, Jennifer and Graves, Diane J. Advances in Library Resource Sharing, Vol. 2. Meckler: Westport, CT.
  • Kovacs, Diane K.; McCarty, Willard and Kovacs, Michael. (1991). How to start and manage a Bitnet-Listserv discussion group: A Beginner's Guide. PACS-L Review, 2(1) (available as Kovacs Prv2n1 from Listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu).
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (1991). Government Printing Office dissemination of government documents on CD-ROM: Report from the Govdoc-L discussion list. CD-ROM Professional 4(4): 36-38.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (1991) Beyond Bitnet. IN the Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Western Canadian Chapter of the American Society of Information Scientists, Edmonton Alberta, Canada, September 20-22, 1991: University of Alberta.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (1990). GovDoc-L: Discussion of Government Documents Issues. GPO Administrative Notes 11(23): 15-18.
  • Kovacs, Diane K. (1990).GovDoc-L: An online intellectual community of documents librarians and other individuals concerned with access to government Information. Government Publications Review 17: 411-420.

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Conference Presentations

  • “Virtual Reference Competencies: Technical, Communications, and References Skills for Virtual Reference Librarians or How do we show we're better than just Googling?” October 26, 2007 Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio
  • “Electronic Collection Development and the Kovacs Guide: A History and Application” Ohio October 6, 2005, Library Council Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio
  • "One Size Does Not Fit All" Educational Services for Nursing/University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, November 1, 2002
  • "Electronic Collection Development" Tech Connections 3, Columbus, Ohio May 16, 2001
  • "Search Engines: Advanced Searching Strategies" Ohio Library Council Annual Conference, November 9, 2000.
  • "Electronic Collection Development" Tech Connections 2, Columbus, Ohio May 23, 2000
  • "Company Research for Job Seekers" Ohio Library Council Chapter meetings, Central March 31, Southwest April 4, & Southeast April 14, 2000.
  • "Basic Strategies for Evaluating Internet Resources: An Introduction." presented for "Metadata Two: Practical Considerations for Catalogers Program. Michigan Library Consortium, Lansing, Michigan, May 17, 1999.
  • "Health & Medicine on the Internet: A practical demonstration of instructional methods" presented for the "Exploring Virtual Worlds: the educational applications of MOO" conference, University of Hartford, Connecticut, Diversity University Educational Technology, Inc. October 9-11, 1998.
  • "Training the Trainers for a Digital Library" presented for the 7th Annual Library InfoTech Conference,Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, November 14, 1997
  • "Educational Resources on the Internet: Tools for Teachers , Students and Parents"  presented  for T3: Technology, Teacher Education, Tomorrow, West Virginia, October 24, 1997
  • "Business Information on the Internet: Focus on Security, Privacy, Quality and Timeliness" Presented for Special Libraries Association - Cincinnati, Untangling the Web Conference, Cincinnati, OH.,April 3, 1997 
  • "The Culture of the Internet is the Culture of the Real World" Presented for Rio Hondo Community College, Los Angeles, CA, March 25, 1996
  • "their's Gold in Them Thar Stacks", presented at the ALCTS President's Program, American Library Association Annual Conferences, Chicago, IL. June 26, 1995.
  • "Do it Yourself: Special Librarians Creating Internet Applications", presented at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 14, 1995.
  • "Medical Resources on the World Wide Web", presented at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 13, 1995.
  • Additional pre-1995 conference presentation titles available on request.

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Learning Technologies

  • I have taught with and about Canvas, Moodle, Desire2Learn, Angel, WebCT/Blackboard, and Jenzabar and others.
  • I have taught with and about Zoom, Collaborate, GotoMeeting/Webinar, Elluminate, Webex, Adobe Connect, WebHuddle, and other commercial and open source Web conferencing tools.
  • I have taught with and about video/audio learning object creation software including Panopto, CamtasiaJing, Quicktime, Audacity, Flash, Wink, Snagit, and Captivate.  Panopto and Camtasia are the main tools I use for screen capture and editing video.  Audacity is the main tool I use for audio recording and editing.
  • I create and manage Web sites using Adobe Dreamweaver, and teach others how to use Dreamweaver.

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Former Public Training Clients

(Current Web-based and in-person courses are described at https://kovacs.com
Private clients and non-public projects are not listed. Contact me for details if desired)

  • ALA Editions
  • Association of College and Research Libraries
  • Consorci de Biblioteques Universities de Catalunya (CBUC)
  • Houston Area Library System (HALS)
  • Medical Library Association National
  • Medical Library Association - MidContinental Chapter
  • Medical Library Association - MidWest Chapter
  • Medical Library Association - South Central Chapter
  • Medical Library Association - Southern Chapter
  • New York South Central Regional Library Council
  • North Eastern Ohio Regional Library System
  • North Texas Regional Library System
  • OHIONET
  • PALINET
  • Rolling Prairies Library System
  • Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN)
  • Special Libraries Association - Arabian Gulf Chapter
  • Special Libraries Association - Central Ohio Chapter

Special Scholarly Internet Projects

  • October 1998 to present Editor, NETTRAIN Discussion list for Internet Trainers
  • Nov. 1990 to Present  Founder and Co-Moderator of LibRef-L-Discussion of Library Reference Issues a LISTSERV-based e-conference April 1991 to Jan. 1996  Co-Editor, INFOES - Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal. (a peer-reviewed journal)  Nov. 1992 to Jan. 1997 Co-Editor-in-Chief Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture (a peer-reviewed journal)
  • Jan. 1990 to Present  Founder Co-Moderator (emeritus) of GovDoc-L-Discussion of Government Documents a LISTSERV-based e-conference

Awards and Honors

  • 2007 Left Coast Crime Guest of Honor for Dorothyl Project.
  • 2005 Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Dorothyl Project.
  • 2000 "Documents to the People" award recipient from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Assocation.
  • 1996  1st Annual Leadership Award from the Alumni Association of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 1992  Network Citizen Award from the Apple, Corporation Library 

Professional Memberships

  • Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
  • Association for Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL)
  • American Library Association (ALA)

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