[Web4lib] Libweb - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

[Janet Fine]

8.23.11
 
Hi Mark,
 
I never posted to the listserve with solutions--only problems.  The participants combined knowledge, wisdom, willingness to share and educate never failed to amaze me.
Thank you for all your help and for making my job easier.
 
Best of luck and warm regards, 
 
Janet Fine 
Department Head, Circulation and Computer Services 
Great Neck Library 
159 Bayview Avenue 
Great Neck, NY 11023 
(516) 466-8055 ext. 205
 


> From: mark.allan at angelo.edu
> To: tdowling at ohiolink.edu; web4lib at webjunction.org
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:42:26 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Libweb - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
> 
> Thanks for hosting!
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Allan
> Head of Library Reference Services/Porter Henderson Library
> Angelo State University
> Member, Texas Tech University System
> ASU Station #11013
> San Angelo, TX 76909-1013
> Phone: (325) 942-2511   Fax: (325) 942-2198
> Mark.Allan at angelo.edu
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dowling
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 6:43 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] Libweb - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
> 
> On May 24, 1994, I posted to Web4Lib:
> 
> Rushing in where angels fear to tread, I have recklessly
> volunteered to keep a list of Library-oriented Web servers...
> 
> 
> And so was born a little service called Libweb, which optimistically
> promised to maintain a list of library home pages, back when such things
> were almost rare enough to count onyour hands.
> 
> Libweb is now over 17 years old, or a spry 79 in web years (at the
> official TimBL exchange rate of 2.6 months -> 1 web year:
> http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html). It has outlived its first
> two hosting services and is approaching the end of its third. I seldom
> find time to update it any more, and there's this thing called Google now,
> which wasn't around in 1994. It works like this:
> 
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cross+plains+wi+public+library
> 
> 
> And so I'm going to put Libweb out to pasture. The current site will stay
> up until the end of the year, at
> http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/ but I won't post any more updates,
> and the good folks at WebJunction will turn it off sometime in December.
> My heartfelt thanks to them, to the old Berkeley SunSITE, and to the
> University of Washington Libraries for hosting the site over the years.
> And of course to the many library web folks who provided their URLs and
> taught me so much about web design.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Dowling
> Assistant Director of Library Systems - Web
> Presence and Interface Development
> Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
> 
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