Re: ngc4lib mailing list adminstratativia

I share your inclination that it might be a good time to close ngc4lib down. All good things come to an end; this helps make room for the next great thing. If ngc4lib does shut down, one benefit may be collapsing any possible future traffic into either code4lib or web4lib where there will be broader exposure. (To be honest, I’d forgotten about this list, and had recently directed several ngc-related queries just to c4l.)

Of course, if someone wants to pick up the mantle and can carry it forward, that’s also good :)

Thanks for running it up until now, ELM & ND.

- Tom





On Apr 29, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_ND.EDU<mailto:emorgan_at_ND.EDU>> wrote:

This is a bit of NGC4Lib mailing list administratativia. Specifically, I am very seriously thinking of shutting down the list.

The University of Notre Dame hosts NGC4Lib using the venerable LISTSERV software, but the University is discontinuing support for LISTSERV and offering to migrate NGC4Lib to Google Groups. And for a number of reasons I’d like to bow owning NGC4Lib:

 1. First of all, I don’t like Google Groups.
    For example, Google already knows about us. It don’t
    need to know more.

 2. I seriously believe NGC4Lib has served its purpose.
    The phrase “next generation library catalog” became
    part of our nomenclature — more or less, and the
    whole thing eventually evolved into “discovery”
    systems.

 3. There is simply not very much traffic here.

For all of these reasons, I would like to discontinue the mailing list, unless anybody wants to take up the banner. Does anybody have some suggestions?

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Eric Lease Morgan