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Subject: Re: Advice please! To start a new listserv? -- Liz Linton
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:19:33 -0600
From: "Gillespie, Gaele" <ggillespie@UKANS.EDU>

Perhaps you could scope out a source that our Electronic Information
Librarian, and others at our library that are involved with or
interested in
the burgeoning realm of e-journals and related topics, subscribes to: (

liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu

There may be other listservs as well, but this is the one I can suggest.

If you want to see some discussion threads, etc:  Go to the Yale
University
website ( http://www.yale.edu ),in the left menu bar, click on "Search",
and
then click on "Search Yale Websites", then in the resulting search box
type
the name of the listserve above, and you'll get links to individual
messages, threads, etc. so you can see the breadth of what topics are
discussed. As you will see, it's not just licenses that are discussed,
but
aggregators and many other relevant, timely
e-journal and e-product related topics.

Gaele Gillespie / Serials Librarian / University of Kansas Libraries

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: advice please!
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:43:45 -0500
From: Liz Linton <melinton@sbc.edu>
Organization: Sweet Briar College

My interest is in starting a forum/website for issues
pertaining to usability and library electronic subscription resources.

Over and over again I am shocked at the egregious violations of basic
usability that librarians and their patrons are asked to endure by the
various vendors.
Sloppy, shoddy and unacceptable interfaces are the rule
rather than the exception.

My question is this - As far as you know, is there
already such a resource in place? (If so, I haven't located it.)

If there is not already such a creature for librarians, what are some of
the features
you'd like to see incorporated into such a site?

Thank you in advance for your time and thoughts.

Sincerely,

Liz Linton
Electronic Resources Librarian
Sweet Briar College

http://www.cochran.sbc.edu
http://gos.sbc.edu