new listserv: NCLIBS4DIST-L

[John W. Felts, Jr.]

Please share this information with other individuals or 
groups as appropriate and excuse any cross-postings.
Complete information follows.  Contact John Felts 
(jwfelts at uncg.edu) if you have any questions.

NCLIBS4DIST-L ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION FORUM

PURPOSE

The goal of this forum is to bring together those 
librarians, educators, webmasters/mistresses, 
administrators, and anyone who has a hand in providing 
library services to the distance education community.
We'll focus on issues particularly appropriate but not 
limited to:

-delivery of library resources and services to off-campus 
 users

-WWW page development/design and technological solutions of 
 particular interest to the DE community (scripts, 
 software, RDBMS design, etc., for remote access, 
 authentication, videoconferencing, whiteboards, 
 synchronous or asynchronous communication, etc.) 
 
-new products and technologies of interest to the DE 
 community
 
-inquiries for assistance

-staffing, training, & workflow issues, etc.

-conference announcements

-professional positions open and sought

-etc.


AUDIENCE

NCLIBS4DIST-L is a solutions-based forum specifically aimed 
toward academic, public, and special librarians in the 
state of North Carolina who are providing (or tasked w/ 
providing) library resources and services to off-campus 
users.  Anyone in any vocation in or outside of North 
Carolina who has an interest in these issues is welcome to 
join.


POSTING

This list is unmoderated.  I hope to be as unintrusive as 
possible in regard to the maintenance of this list.  Please 
monitor yourself and your behavior so that others will not 
have to.  Please avoid posting:

-advertisements
-virus warnings/hoaxes
-email attachments
-personal attacks


COMMON LISTPROC COMMANDS

The mailing list manager for NCLIBS4DIST-L is List 
Processor (ListProc) 6.0. The basic commands are:

    TO SUBSCRIBE:
    Send the message "subscribe nclibs4dist-l <your name>" 
    to listproc at uncg.edu

    TO UNSUBSCRIBE:
    Send the message "unsubscribe nclibs4dist-l" to 
    listproc at uncg.edu

    TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DISCUSSION:
    Send your message to nclibs4dist-l at uncg.edu. 

    TO RECEIVE A COMPLETE LIST OF LISTPROC COMMANDS:
    Send the message "help" to listproc at uncg.edu

    TO SUSPEND AND RESUME MAIL:
    To suspend mail from nclibs4dist, send the message 'set 
    nclibs4dist-l mail postpone' to listproc at uncg.edu. To
    resume mail from nclibs4dist-l, send the message "set 
    nclibs4dist-l mail ack" or "set nclibs4dist-l mail noack" to
    listproc at uncg.edu. "ACK" will acknowledge your list 
    contributions, "NOACK" will not.


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John W. Felts, Jr.
Networked Information Services Librarian
University of North Carolina Greensboro
jwfelts at uncg.edu
336-334-4238