Should this list continue?

Alysa Selby aselby at STEAMBOATLIBRARY.ORG
Sun May 8 09:47:23 EDT 2016


I find this list useful.  As a web master in a small rural library I have
little time to participate in discussion, but monitor closely what others
are discussing and doing.  It keeps me informed and lets me know what is
possible.

Alysa Selby
Digital Services Librarian

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by
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On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Roy Tennant <roytennant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Subscribers,
> The University of Notre Dame, through the very kind broker Eric Lease
> Morgan, has hosted Web4Lib for a number of years. I am very, very grateful
> for their support.
>
> I have now been informed that all UND lists will be migrated to Google
> Groups or shutdown. Thus, I must decide to either migrate the list to
> Google Groups, find another hosting situation, or shut it down.
>
> I am considering whether to shut it down. I want to make it clear that
> although the question has been called due to the need to make a hosting
> decision, I do not feel in any way that the University of Notre Dame is
> shutting us down -- they are not.
>
> However, I think is a good time to consider whether the list is worth
> continuing. Although I feel like a list that is for discussing web issues
> in a library context is still potentially important, the list archive
> proves otherwise. What we find are a litany of announcements but very
> little actual discussion.
>
> So we must decide, as a group, what to do. Does this list provide value?
> Do you want it to continue in Google Groups? To find out what you want,
> I've created a poll:
>
> http://bit.ly/1T3ANjw
>
> Please let me know what you all think. Thanks,
> Roy Tennant
> Owner, Web4Lib
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