LIS Mailing Lists
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[edit] Mandatory Mailing List Subscriptions
In a conversation with Stephen Downie during Symposium, he mentioned that there are a number of mailing lists which all LIS PhD students should subscribe to. This is how we will know about job opportunities, and other relevant information in the field.
- ASIS-L, the general ASIS&T Mailing List
- http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l
- See also:
- Other ASIS&T Lists: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo
- The main ASIS&T page: http://www.asis.org/
- JESSE, a discussion list for issues regarding Library and Information Science Education
- ALA - a bunch of them.
- List of ALA Mailing lists: http://lp-web.ala.org:8000/guest/main/
- I've not yet figured out which ones to sign up for. -Ingbert
- To register for the ALA Mailing List system go to: http://lp-web.ala.org:8000/guest/register
- See also:
- Get Guest access at: http://lp-web.ala.org:8000/
- ALA homepage: http://www.ala.org/
[edit] Specialty Lists
In addition, he said that we should subscribe to the major lists of our specialty within LIS:
- DIGLIB
- AIR
[edit] From 501
Here are some suggested lists presented in Kathryn La Barre's 501 class (Fall 2006):
Autocat: questions relating to cataloging and authority control in libraries.
jESSE: library and information science education issues
SIGIA-l: ASIST Special Interest Group – Information Architecture
NGC4Lib (Next generation catalogs 4 libraries)
Web4libraries: Discussion for library-based WWW managers:
Searchable database of LIS-oriented lists and electronic serials maintained by the Washington Research Library Consortium:
