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

Tue Aug 23 11:59:45 EDT 2011

Just to be clear, Web4Lib is not going away. I will be making an
announcement about a slight transition later when I know more about timing,
but what I know now is that we will be moving from Mailman to LISTSERV,
still hosted by OCLC. The web site, however, will move to its own domain
that I am hosting. There should be no significant interruption in service,
and I'm hopeful that you will need to do nothing except perhaps change a
bookmark.

Now a few words about Thomas' announcement. I feel like seeing Libweb go is
like witnessing the end of an era. Thomas started Libweb just days after I
started the Web4Lib discussion at UC Berkeley. Those were heady days as we
were just getting started in learning this new thing called HTML and more
about design than any of us thought we ever would or could. Well, some of us
that is. ;-)

Eventually I invited Thomas to transition Libweb from the University of
Washington to the UC Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE where it was for a
number of years until I left Berkeley and they lost interest in hosting it.
I then arranged to move Libweb, PubLib, Web4Lib, XML4Lib, and Current Cites
to WebJunction, long before I ended up joining OCLC. Now we are at another
transition. As I mentioned, OCLC will continue to host the lists if they
choose to remain, which Web4Lib, XML4Lib, and Current Cites do so choose.
However, the web addresses will change. As I have said, I will let you know
more about timing when I know more.

For now, allow me to thank Thomas for his long service to the library
community in creating and maintaining this directory for so many years.
Libweb will be missed, even as we acknowledge that the need for it has been
diminished. But...the Rosemary Garfoot Public Library? Really? ;-)
Roy 

On 8/23/11 8/23/11 € 8:20 AM, "Jorge Biquez" <jbiquez at icsmx.com> wrote:

> Hello all.
> 
> I also have to thank to all in all this years. Thanks a lot for all your help.
> 
> I was wondering, maybe I did not receive any email with the full explanation.
> 
> The close of the list is because of lack of resources to be hosted?
> Technical resources? If so, maybe we can do something about it. I can
> help if we want continue with it.
> On other side, being a  member of other very good list that were
> closed finally. Some people decided to continue with another name,
> maybe similar of the list but with the same idea of sharing
> experiences and helping each other. If that'0s teh case. Maybe would
> be interest in continuing in some way. Even yYhoogroups o Google's
> similar can be of help.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
> Thanks again for all the time and help.
> 
> Jorge Biquez
> 
> 
> At 09:34 a.m. 23/08/2011, Janet Fine wrote:
> 
>> 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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>> 
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>> stance held by my employer.
>>> 
>>> I love the smell of book dust in the morning. It smells
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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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