Diane Kovacs

Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet & Web Training. She has more than twelve years of experience as a Web Teacher and Consultant. She received her M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and a M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from Kent State University in 1993. She has a B.A. in Anthropology also from the University of Illinois, 1985. She has been designing and teaching Web-based MLA CE courses since 2001. Since 2004 she has been teaching Web Design for Organizations for the UIUC GSLIS LEEP program.

Her latest book is The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines, co-authored with Kara L. Robinson, 2004. The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E-mail Environment is forthcoming from Neal-Schuman in 2006. Genealogical Research on Web was published in 2002.

Diane Kovacs is the 2000 recipient of the "Documents to the People" award from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association. She was also the recipient of the Apple Corporation Library's, Internet Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association's first recipient of the Leadership Award in 1996.