e-mail in libraries

[jim hewitt]

jim hewitt wrote:

> all right...this is a web4lib list, not email-in-lib list...can we cut
>
> the discussion?
>
> i propose this because it seems that this discussion is going nowhere
> fruitful...i've seen a lot of verbiage being employed to no
> communicative purpose, as people are talking past each other, and i'm
> not sure anyone in the middle of this is still listening to either
> side...
>
> if i'm wrong, and anyone who is not convinced one way or the other
> still
> feels that there is purpose to further discussion, so be it...
>
> otherwise, let's get back to web stuff, ok?
>
> question in point:
>     we have a web-based opac which allows direct connection to
> cataloged
> web-based sources...we're developing a rationale for inclusion of
> sites
> for our reference desk computer bookmarks, our web site on the campus
> web, and inclusion of selected sites within the opac...
>
> what's being distilled from our discussions is that the more stable
> and
> universal the source, the more formal the level of access...and those
> sites which replace print copies of works (such as merck manual, for
> instance) will automatically be cataloged...
>
> our look at collection development in the online arena is changing,
> too...we intend to use our student workers as collectors (they work
> with
> the web as they assist in the lab and their contacts with "surfers"
> are
> much more common than ours) as well as soliciting imput from students
> to
> a much greater degree than before...
>
> how are others handling these issues?  any refinements to our above
> outline?  any radical diversions from our path?
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   jim hewitt <hewittjim at earthlink.net>
>   reference librarian
>   concordia college
>
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