Interesting question, indeed.
PACS-L may be all but dead, but, still, much of its
territory is now being covered by far-from-dead
lists like Liblicense-L, NGC4LIB, Web4lib. What
are the dynamics of this kind of thing ?
Lists that are otherwise general-interest but could
( from an anglophone/American perspective )
still be called "specialized" not because of type of
library / information service, but based on other
criteria such as language-area or national boundaries,
are also not immune to hard-to-explain ups and
downs. I follow, for example, one for German-
language library/information professionals, one for
Dutch-language professionals, one specifically for
the UK, in addition to blogs and other services for
such areas. They vary considerably in e.g. vivacity
and interactivity. I also for years devotedly followed
the big general French-language discussion-list in
our field ( with >17,000 participants ), which was
active and lively and varied, before it then ceased
operation in July of last year. A real pity, I found --
I miss it quite a bit, and am still in search of good
services to fill the gap. ( Though I've inquired here
about this before -- any good suggestions are still
more than welcome. I would also appreciate any tips
for Italian- and Spanish-language possibilities. These
are not easy to locate via anglophone services. )
- Laval Hunsucker
Breukelen, Nederland
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Subject: Re: Library-oriented lists...
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
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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
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Sue
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