Greetings,
   I happend on this the other nite, and it is a significant improvement 
over past efforts.
   http://jelis.org/
   Nice table of contents, attractive layout, apparently current with the 
Winter of 2011 being attended to in Feb of 2012.  No publication date for 
the Web page itself.
   It could form a platform for talking about LIS issues, but it is so 
focused on the journal that it can't see how it might relate to other 
media such as related blogs, web sites, and twitter sites.
   This is NOT to take away the respect and academic achievement of a 
scholarly journal, which in itself is an accomplishment.  But it is to 
insist upon the recognition of other media which also frame a 
conversation, and to suggest that JELIS might be able to frame a 
conversation about important LIS topics.  No one else is, including ASIS 
AFAICT. And JELIS has this opportunity, which I hope it will not trash.
    It now has an attractive interface, which is great.  It is somewhat 
well organized as a journal and as a web site.  There is a bit of a clash 
here, but the clash can be worked on.  It could be the basis of an LIS 
community, and I hope that that will not be wasted.  And a bold vision 
will not be abandoned.

    I had this fight over merging information technologies with the editor 
of JELIS two decades or so ago when I wanted to include a URL in a JELIS 
article as a continuing update to an article and he refused it. It 
appeared in the article anyway.

     Nice new site, and it has potential.  I encourage others to support 
its development.

   --gw

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Gretchen Whitney, PhD, Retired
School of Information Sciences
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA           [log in to unmask]
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