Judith K. Mishriki
Reference Librarian

Selected Online Projects

• Runaway Lives
• Teens in Trouble: A Survival Site for Parents
• Medical Jeopardy
• Penn State in the Lehigh Valley
• R.M.S. Titanic: An Annotated Bibliography
• The Poe Studies Association
• Research Toolkit - Penn State Lehigh Valley Library
• Google/Open Directory : Runaways category
• Kids & Money

Publications

• "The Cyber Sisters Club: Using the Internet to Bridge the Technology Gap with Inner City Girls." T-H-E Journal, 26(5), p. 47-50, Dec. 1998.
• "The Cyber Sisters Club." PBS Online/TeacherSource, Apr. 1999.

Outreach Programs

• "Project LifeLine" introduced adults over 60 to computers and the Internet, with a focus on evaluating online medical information.
• "The Cyber Sisters Club" was designed to give inner-city girls a chance to enjoy technology during afterschool sessions at Penn State Lehigh Valley.

Presentations

• "The Cyber Sisters Club: Penn State Lehigh Valley's Technology Outreach Program for Inner City Girls." Webnet 2000, San Antonio, TX, November 2000.
• "The Cyber Sisters Club: Inner City Girls on the Internet." Educause '97, Long Beach, CA, November 1999.
• "A Chemistry Internet Lab: Using a Web-Based Assignment to Teach Internet Search Skills and Online Chemistry Resources." Sixth Annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA, April 1998.
• "The Virtual Research Assistant." Association of College and Research Libraries 6th National Conference, Nashville, TN, April 1997.
• "Overcoming Psychological and Cultural Barriers to Information Literacy with At-Risk Youth." Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference, 1990.