Again, I apologize for having to forward messages individually instead of
grouping them. My new computer arrives next week! -Marcia

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:22:44 MDT
From: Patricia Loghry <FG38@UTEP.BITNET>
To: SEREDIT@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re[2]: Electronic Serials Institute (Di Neumeister)

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>Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 10:56:34 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Di Neumeister <drneumei@lcac1.loras.edu>
>To: Marcia Tuttle <tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
>Cc: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
>Subject: Re: Electronic Serials Institute (Sarah Tusa)
>
>Yes! Yes! Yes! I would, too! Except I'd like to see one in the midwest since
>I'm in Iowa.
>
I agree with this as well.  I am in El Paso, Texas, and need as much
education as I can get.  The travel budget is tight and I cannot afford
to fund all of these on my own.  I would love to see these in other
areas or as a teleconf.

>Or how about a teleconference?  Most librarians should have access to a
>site for a teleconference reasonably (and affordably) close to their own
>libraries.
>
>Or maybe conferences could be videotaped? Then the host institution could
>make a couple of copies of the tape and loan them to other libraries via
>ILL? Or even sell them at a reasonable price.
>
>Maybe some of you can come up with all kinds of reasons that these
>suggestions aren't practical -- or maybe not.  In any case, I think a
>discussion on this is long overdue.  Library technology is changing so
>fast that most of us need continuing education more than ever before, but
>it's often difficult to find the topics we need close to home.  With all
>the technology we now have access to, there should be some workable
>alternative to sending people clear across the country in this era of
>tighter budgets and fewer staff members.
>
It seems that we should be able to find a way to help each other with
the newer technologies.  I would suggest an email interactive conference
maybe.

Pat Loghry
Coordinator - Serials section
University of Texas-El Paso

>What do you think?  Please respond to the list so we can get a good
>discussion going if anyone, other than Sarah Tusa and I, is interested.
>
>
>Diane Neumeister
>Serials Asst.
>Wahlert Memorial Library
>Loras College
>Dubuque, IA 52004-0178
>drneumei@loras.edu
>
>On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Sarah Tusa wrote:
>
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>> Does anyone know if there are plans about to present this
>> program on electronic journals in other regions?  I would very
>> much like to see a workshop of this nature in Texas, or at least
>> somewhere in the Southwest.  Travel expenses to Washington, D.C.
>> are prohibitive for many of us.