Keywords: Electronic Newsletter for Queens College GSLIS
First emailed edition of the student newsletter;
includes listserver instructions for students.
KEYWORDS 1:1--14
February 1996
THE ELECTRONIC
NEWSLETTER OF THE QUEENS COLLEGE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
STUDIES
Contents
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1)
Welcome
2)
Keywords
3) Call for
FAQs
4) Forming an SLA Student
Chapter
5) News
Digests
6) Periodicals
Watch
7) Listserving
Suggestions
8) Library
Tours
9) CUNY+
Workshop
10) Added
Entries
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1)
WELCOME
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WELCOME
and welcome back to school. To all of you who are new, please
note
that the next message you will be
getting from GLISnet is my original
proposal
for this listserver. It is being posted for the sake of
archiving
it. Feel free to write to me with
your suggestions concerning this
listserver.
Right now, things are open, and I am sure that the
listserver
will wind up being defined by its
participants rather than any one person
or
entity, even though it is a communications organ of the GSLIS
Student
Association.
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2)
Keywords
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The
first edition of the newly redesigned and renamed Student Association
Newsletter, KEYWORDS, should be in
everyone's mailboxes next week. Its
contents
include the following:
Why Black
History Month? by Andrew Jackson
What QBPL
Can Do for You by Margaret Borger
Membership
in a Professional Association by Katherine
Cray
New York City ALA Conference Mentor
Program by Rocco
Cassano
plus,
a movie review, an editorial, and Internet
propaganda.
The next printed issue of
KEYWORDS is due out in mid-March 1996. If
you
have any ideas concerning either the
electronic or print versions of
the
newsletter, or concerning activities for
the Student Association, contact
Seth Bookey
directly at sethbook@panix.com or du0qc@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu.
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3)
Call for FAQs
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Our
first idea for electronic democracy comes from Dr. Surprenant,
who
suggests a GSLIS Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ) list. Think of some of
the
questions you have, or used to have, and send them along,
hopefully
with the answers, to my email
accounts at du0qc@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu
and
sethbook@panix.com.
So, to get the ball rolling, I have
some questions I would like
answered.
Q: What exactly is required
in the 709 class? What sort of paper is
expected and required? What are the
differences between working alone
and with a
group, in terms of the work
expected?
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4)
Forming an SLA Student
Chapter
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GSLIS
Director Dr. Marianne Cooper recently told me that about one-third
of our student body (approximately more than
125 people) goes into
special librarianship.
Yet, we do not have a student chapter. If you are
interested in working on a committee
concerning this, please contact Seth
Bookey
at sethbook@panix.com. Meetings are likely going to be held in
cyberspace. The initial process involves
writing a letter to the Special
Libraries
Association with a minimum of five students who are already SLA
Members or Student Members and following
their guidelines. Feel free to
volunteer...
For
more information on Student Chapters, or a look at other Student
Chapters, consult the Special Library
Association's
Homepage.
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5)
News
Digests
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A
feature of the electronic version of KEYWORDS that will not be in
the
print version will be news digests, to be
compiled by Margaret Borger and
Seth Bookey.
If you see news items concerning libraries
and/or
librarianship, feel free to write us
or leave a clipping in our mailbox.
The
items can come from either library science periodicals or
general
periodicals and newspapers.
If you want to do a write-up of your
own, send it directly to us, to
avoid
duplication. Make sure to attribute the item and put anything that
is not in your own words in quotes, followed
by an attribution, like,
"according to
Library Journal." Items are subject to review to avoid
plagiarism and mistakes. Send submissions
to:
Seth Bookey, sethbook@panix.com,
du0qc@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu.
Margaret Borger,
margaretbo@queens.lib.ny.us
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6)
Periodicals
Watch
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If
you are a regular reader of a library science periodical, let us
know
what they are writing about. If you want
to point us to a great article
but don't want
to digest it, send us all a note
at
glisnet@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu. Tell us the
name and author of the article,
and in which
issue it can be found. This is FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. So
if
you are already reading a periodical
regularly, consider "adopting a
title" and
letting us know which articles are catching your eye. Once
a
month we will publish a list of which
periodicals are being scanned and by
whom.
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7)
Listserving
Suggestions
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Are
you on other library-related listservers? Feel free to forward
subscription instructions and a brief
description of the listserver
(including
information concerning both content AND frequency) to
glisnet@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu. Suggestions and
information will be collected
for future
issues of the electronic version of Keywords. If you see
something you think we absolutely must know
about, post it to
glisnet@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu.
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8)
Library
Tours
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The
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library at Queens College is offering
guided
tours from 5 February to 1 March 1996.
They are offered Mondays through
Thursdays at
9:30 AM, 1 PM, and 5 PM, and Fridays at 9:30 AM and 1 PM.
Sign up at the Information Desk, Main
Floor, or call 718.997.3748. The
tours last
up to 30 minutes.
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9)
CUNY+
Workshop
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The
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library is offering CUNY+ OPAC workshops.
They
are offered Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Thursdays from 1:30-2:00 PM at
Rosenthal 225.
The reference desk should also have copies of the
library's
scheduled hours of operation,
instructions for logging on to CUNY+
from
your own modem, and a list of the
addresses and phone numbers of all the
CUNY
libraries. The latter two handouts are essential to managing the
time
spent looking up items versus actually
getting to look at them.
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10)
Added
Entries
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Well,
that's about it for our first-ever electronic version of KEYWORDS.
Since this is a new project, there are going
to be inevitable problems and
things we just
plain don't know. So feel free to send me your
suggestions
and let me know if I missed
something entirely. Write to me
at
sethbook@panix.com or
du0qc@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu
ONE CAVEAT: If
you have any questions or comments, DO NOT hit the reply
feature, but rather, write to me at the
addresses above directly. First,
replies to
this message will go to the entire list. So if you want a
private message publicly transmitted
accidentally, that is how it could
happen.
Postings to the GLISnet are being archived, so it would be
easier not to fill that archive with
messages that were not intended for
it. The
most common mistake is when people UNSUBSCRIBE and the entire
list gets email with that one word in the
text area. And that person is
STILL on the
list.
ARCHIVES: All the postings to
GLISnet are automatically archived.
The
archives are accessible via an e-mail
file server called GLISlog. Send an
e-mail
message to GLISlog@QCVAXA.ACC.QC.EDU or GLISlog (from QCVAXA)
that
says HELP for more info. Only
subscribers to the list may access
the
archives.
RERUNS: In the first few months, some
items will be repeated for the sake
of
archiving them so future subscribers can
access particular files on their
own.
Electronic and print versions of the Archive's Tables of
Contents
will be provided.
TIP: Typing out qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu can
be pretty tedious. If your emailer
allows
you to create aliases, do so for the following addresses.
glisnet@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu
This is the actual listserver. Only write
here if you want EVERYONE
to see what you
have to contribute. Teachers are subscribed, too.
Let's try to keep the complaining and
bickering that plagues other
listservers to
a minimum.
glislog@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu
This is the GLISnet archives.
glisnet-request@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu
This
is where you subscribe, unsubscribe, and get other information.
LET's JUST STOP THIS: If you want to
unsubscribe from this listserver,
send a
message to glisnet-request@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu with the
word
UNSUBSCRIBE in the text area. Leave the
subject line empty. DO NOT send
the message
to glisnet@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu. You will still be subscribed
and the whole list will get your
message.
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