[Web4lib] Are e-mail discussion lists still relevant?

[B.G. Sloan]

All this discussion about e-mail lists made me curious. I know I've actively participated in e-mail discussion groups for a while now, but I wasn't sure how long I'd been doing it.

I did some digging around in list archives and discovered that this coming October 3 will mark the 20th anniversary of my active participation in e-mail lists! I posted my first note to a list (PACS-L) on October 10, 1989.

So I obviously must think they have some relevance! :-)

Bernie Sloan 

--- On Mon, 6/29/09, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Web4lib] Are e-mail discussion lists still relevant?
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Date: Monday, June 29, 2009, 10:34 PM
>  
> Young, Jeffrey R. Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists,
> Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance. Chronicle of Higher
> Education. June 25, 2009.
> http://beta.chronicle.com/article/Change-or-Die-Scholarly/46962/
>  
> The intro paragraph: 
>  
> "Once they were hosts to lively discussions about academic
> style and substance, but the time of scholarly e-mail lists
> has passed, meaningful posts slowing to a trickle as
> professors migrate to blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social
> networks like Facebook."
>  
> Several quotes from librarians...
>  
> Bernie Sloan
> Sora Associates
> 
> 
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