[WEB4LIB] mailing list management

[Pinkham, Lida]

We have created something simple in-house.  We allow patrons to subscribe on
the homepage.  When they subscribe, their email is added to an access
database.  (Go to our home page www.plcmc.org and click on the link to "@
the Library".)

We then send out periodic newsletters to all subscribers. Our web programmer
created a routine that pulls out all of the email addresses from the server
and then automatically sends an email.  We keep our emails simple and text
based.  

We have a page for people who want to unsubcribe and any emails that bounce
back, we just manually remove from the list - about 10-12 each month.

We will be sending out our December newsletter soon, so you might want to
subscribe just to get an idea of how we do it.

Lida Pinkham
Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
Interim Web Services Director & Library Resource Trainer
704-353-0631 (phone)
704-336-2677 (fax)

Check out the PLCMC family of websites:
http://www.plcmc.lib.nc.us/family/family.htm

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-----Original Message-----
From: heidi cramer [mailto:hcramer at npl.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 6:06 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] mailing list management


Has anyone utilized software or a web product to manage a large e-
mailing list for program announcements, news from the library, etc.?  
We're looking for something that would allow the Development Dept to 
send out periodic emails.  I would appreciate hearing your experiences.



Heidi Lynn Cramer
The Newark Public Library
5 Washington St.
PO Box 630
Newark, NJ 07101-0630
hcramer at npl.org
(973) 733-7837
(973) 733-8539 (fax)