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

[B.G. Sloan]

There seems to be a bit of confusion here...

Libweb is shutting down in December. It's a web site with links to library websites.

Web4Lib (the discussion list) isn't going anywhere. It's here to stay.

Bernie Sloan

--- On Tue, 8/23/11, Janet Fine <janetrfine at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Janet Fine <janetrfine at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Libweb - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
> To: tdowling at ohiolink.edu, web4lib at webjunction.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 10:34 AM
> 
> 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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> > Any opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect
> any official stance held by my employer.
> > 
> > I love the smell of book dust in the morning. It
> smells like...... knowledge.
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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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