Speaking as a court librarian, do we need yet another list? The number of
special interest lists could go on proliferating, with a new one for each
sub category, or sub-sub category of type, until a subscriber doesn't know
who may or may not be reading their messages. As for myself, keeping track
of the E-mail and their subscriptions for the 3 or 4 lists I subscribe to
is plenty enough work, if you know what I mean.
John D. Moore
jmoore@cap.gwu.edu
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Library
Washington, DC 20439
(202) 633-5871
On Fri, 3 Sep 1993, JACQUELINE S. WRIGHT, TIM HOLTHOFF wrote:
>
> Dear Court Librarians and Other Interested Parties,
>
> A number of us have been discussing the possibility of opening an E-MAIL
> discussion list for court librarians because we have a lot of things to
> talk about that do not necessarily concern other law librarians.
> Tom Bruce from Cornell Univ. offered to post the list, but has a number
> of questions. I would like to get some feedback from interested persons
> about the following subjects:
>
> 1. Membership - should this be court librarians, public law librarians,
> SCCLL?
>
> 2. Should it be moderated? That means that someone would have to go
> to the trouble to read each message before they would be posted.
>
> 3. Should it be an open or closed list? That is, we have the option of
> defining qualifications for membership to the list. Tom said that most
> lists are open and the occasional message from Mars is not disruptive.
>
> 4. Should nonsubscribers be able to post? Ditto question 3.
>
>
> Jacqueline S. Wright
> Arkansas Supreme Court Library E-mail: SCLIBRARY@UALR.EDU
> 625 Marshall, Justice Building Phone: (501)682-2147
> Little Rock, AR 72201-1080 Fax: (501)682-6877
>
>
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