Gregory S. Smith, author of How to Protect Your Children on the Internet: A Road Map for Parents and Teachers, will give an Internet Safety Seminar for parents on Thursday, May 22, 2008, at 6:30 p.m. in the first floor auditorium of the Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library, Connecticut and Macomb Streets, N.W. A book sale and signing of How to Protect Your Children on the Internet, courtesy of the Trover Shop, will follow the program.

Mr. Smith will give a talk about the risks of going online for today’s children and how to mitigate those risks so their children will have a great experience on the Internet. He’ll offer a frank discussion of today’s risks including sexual predators, inappropriate content, and personal data protection to parents of children between the ages of 8 and 18.

Mr. Smith is Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Information and Technology at the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C., and Adjunct Professor in the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education Graduate Programs at Johns Hopkins University.

The Cleveland Park Branch of the D.C. Public Library is located near the Cleveland Park Metrorail Station. All District of Columbia Public Library activities are open to the public free of charge. For further information, please call the Cleveland Park Library at 202/282-3080.