Re: ngc4lib mailing list adminstratativia

From: Patricia Martin <Patricia.Martin_at_nyob> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:44:05 +0000 To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

I'm fine with a shutdown as well, and I also wouldn’t sign up via a Google group.  Thanks for doing this for the community for many years.

-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Sandra Abbott-Stout
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 10:03 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: ngc4lib mailing list adminstratativia

Hi Eric,
I'm fine with you shutting down the list. I wouldn't sign up via a Google Group.
Sandra

-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 12:46 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [NGC4LIB] ngc4lib mailing list adminstratativia

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?

—
Eric Lease Morgan