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§ ) : THE DOUGLAS COLLEGE NEWSLETTER W JANUARY 1997

Calendar going online

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Everyone knows the Internet and the we’ ve been doing off the corner of our To have a look at the calendar and
World Wide Web are new opportunities desks due to limited resources. Still, we participate in testing, type the address
for communicating to a global audience. invite suggestions on how we could directly into the location box of your web
Douglas College’s web site, available on improve our site to take full advantage of browser (links from the main site will be
the Internet since September 1995, has the web as a key vehicle for
been growing steadily, providing more communication and learning.” continued on page 4

and more information about the College,
its programs, facilities and people.

Soon, we will be taking other

significant steps such as getting the entire

& College Calendar online. This means
potential students and anyone with access
to the Web anywhere in the world will be
able to get key information about College
programs and courses. As well, rather
than waiting for the annual printed
Calendar, we will be able to provide up-
to-date information on a more frequent
basis.

Following coordination with the
Registrar’s Office and the Centre for
Educational Technology, Brad Barber,
Director of Communications &
Marketing, says the Calendar will be
ready for internal testing from January 24
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“Thanks to the initial hard work of
June Campbell in CET, working in . = os
consultation with Kathy Para here in the Christmas Siving
CMO, we’ve made great progress. It’s a
big job turning a 300-page document into
a usable web site, but we’re almost there.”

Twenty-four families in New Westminster had a brighter holiday this year, thanks to
the generosity of Douglas College employees. Five vanloads of food and gifts were
picked up at the College on Friday, December 20, in a Christmas drive coordinated by

He says the College community is Vye Flindall of Finance (Accounting).

invited to look at the online Calendar and

suggest ways to make it more useful. “The
@ same goes for the College web site in

general. It’s been a work in progress that

Santa’s helpers—New Westminster Police Constables Mike Blackstock (in Santa hat)
and Al Munroe (third from right), pictured here with volunteers from the Crime
Prevention Office—collected the gift boxes and spent the day delivering them to
participating families.