Mary M. Nash

Training experience

• the Internet
• online information retrieval
• choosing and using personal computers
• computer file management
• microcomputer software packages

She is a frequently invited lecturer and conference speaker, with presentations such as:

• risk analysis
• matching risk to cost in file back-up strategies
• hardware and software standards for microcomputers
• justifying one-time use software in database applications
• general data structures for time and money computations
• design and implementation of a computer file cataloguing utility
• software and procedural tools for specialized data entry
• a database of secular and religious holidays
• comparative data management practices in Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian libraries.

Sample contracts for training and teaching:

NAME OF CLIENT: Algonquin College
DATE: Annually
NATURE AND SCOPE OF WORK: Lecturing on finding information, will include the 
 Internet in 1995.

NAME OF CLIENT: University of Ottawa/ Canadian Association for Information
 Science
DATE: Feb. 1994
NATURE AND SCOPE OF WORK: Lunch time seminar on the Internet.

NAME OF CLIENT: National Council of Barbadian Associations of Canada
DATE: Jan. - Mar. 1987
DOLLAR VALUE: $3,750
NATURE AND SCOPE OF WORK: Instruction to one person on how to set up an
 information centre for the Council.

NAME OF CLIENT: University of Ottawa Executive Development Program
DATE: 1982-1986 (various dates)
DOLLAR VALUE:  $800 per seminar
NATURE AND SCOPE OF WORK: One-day seminars on choosing and using personal
 computers, presented as and when required.

NAME OF CLIENT: Canadian Red Cross (Ottawa Branch)
DATE: Jan. 1985
DOLLAR VALUE: $500
NATURE AND SCOPE OF WORK: .5 day seminar on searching online information
 systems.

NAME OF CLIENT: Canadian Red Cross (Ottawa Branch)
DATE: Oct. 1984
DOLLAR VALUE: $1200
NATURE AND SCOPE OF WORK: 1.5 day seminar on 'Small computers: putting them
 to work'.