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Gretchen A very interesting and useful question, to which I don't have the answers. But I can say that in my neck of the woods, the state of library education is such that, with very few exceptions, many students graduate as professional librarians without even being aware of forms of special librarianship - such as music or art or even law; historical or systematic bibliography, conservation of older materials and incunabula, history of the book or of libraries, theoretical, political and philosophical principles of librarianship and information dissemination, the mechanic, processes and effects of reading, or anything else that is not currently trendy: technologies reign supreme, as do perhaps some issues around intellectual property and copyright; children's librarianship is more or less existent purely because of the dual qualifications necessary in this country to become a teacher librarian. And they get only snippets of the rest, rather superficially and with the emphasis strongly on the 'how' to do things, and not 'why' they are done at all, thus reducing everybody to a technician, rather than developing a professional outlook. It would not surprise me, therefore, if specialised communities were not found to exist online. Even PACS is all but dead. All the best S -----Original Message----- From: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gretchen Whitney Sent: Friday, 23 April 2010 9:20 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Library-oriented lists... Greetings all, In the early days of the Internet/Web (mid 1990s), there were a variety of efforts put forward to organize Internet information resources specifically for librarians. Remnants of these include Wei Wu, Library Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials http://www.txla.org/pubs/tlj74_1/article5.html Charles Bailey, Library Oriented Lists and E-Serials http://lawlibrary.ucdavis.edu/LAWLIB/Jan94/0182.html Note the extensive specialised groups Diane Kovacs, Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences http://www.kovacs.com/directoryhistory.html These services have died. Troutman, Leslie, An Internet Primer for Music Librarians http://www.jstor.org/pss/899170 A nice piece that may or may not being kept up to date. What has replaced them? Endeth the preface. What library-oriented electronic communication services (permanent/persistent like listserv and other e mail discussion lists) or transient (MySpace, Facebook etc) services are you referring your students to for communication and community? Endeth the question. Beginneth the aftermath. Where does the student go to communicate with like minded individuals who are interested in art or music librarianship, children's literature, repairing books, building web sites, or whatever might be their field of interest. Have the professional associations taken up these communication needs? Who is pulling this all together for the discipline as a whole, as the early responders did? --gw <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD Retired University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA [log in to unmask] http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ jESSE:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/jesse.html SIGMETRICS:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> All the best Sue Dr Susan Myburgh School of Communication University of South Australia St Bernard's Road Magill SA 5076 ADELAIDE P: 618 8302 4421 F: 618 8302 4745 E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. CRICOS Provider Number 00121B The opinions expressed in this email are mine alone. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this email may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of the University of South Australia. This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information that may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender by reply mail and immediately delete this email. Use, disclosure or reproduction of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. No representation is made this this email or any attachments are free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. Please consider the environment before printing this email