Eric,
I signed up for this list when I was a library school student working on a
paper. I've been a professional librarian 8 years now. I've appreciated
the opportunity to learn from the community over the years. Thank you
Carrie Doyle
University of Wisconsin Law Library
Madison, WI.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <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?
>
> —
> Eric Lease Morgan
>
Received on Sun May 01 2016 - 17:29:40 EDT