SLAIS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORIES
SLAIS
ELECTRONIC Discussion Lists
SLAIS uses discussion lists to make
it easy for a message to be sent to a large group of people at the same time. For example, most courses have their
own lists so that the professor and students can exchange messages, and there are lists for students in specific programs (e.g. mlis-students). There is also a list that allow messages to be broadcast to all SLAIS students (slais-students). After you join a listserv, any message you send to it will be copied automatically to everyone on the list.
In the past people would often post to the school-wide list, even though their message was for people in a specific program, because they weren't certain that everyone in that program was signed up on the program-specific list. This meant that people often received email that had nothing to do with them. The new policy is that no one will be able to sign up to the school-wide list. However, once you sign up for your program specific list, you will automatically be signed up to the school-wide list. In this way, people may have complete confidence that posting to the program-specific list will be as effective a means of communication as posting to the school-wide list.
How to Subscribe
to Discussion Lists
For all except the SlaisJobs list use these instructions:
From the email account
you wish to use, send the following message. Be sure to leave the
subject line blank:
To: majordomo@interchange.ubc.ca
Subject:
[The text of the message should read
...]
subscribe XXXX [where XXXX is the
name of the listserv]
end
For example,
to subscribe to the MLIS Students' list you would do this
To: majordomo@interchange.ubc.ca
Subject:
Message: subscribe mlis-students
end
How to Unsubscribe
from Discussion Lists
You unsubscribe exactly the same way as you subscribe, except that you use the word 'unsubscribe' instead of 'subscribe' in your message.
Important: listserve requests are sent to the majordomo address shown above. Do not send subscribe or unsubscribe requests to the list address.
Please note, if you use Internet Explorer
and an e-mail program like HotMail you may experience subscription
problems. IE browser normally has the Rich Text Format (RTF)
conversion button set as a default. When subscribing to the list-serves,
the extra data automatically added when doing the conversion
to RTF messes up Majordomo, causing the subscription request
to be rejected.
How
to Post a Message
Send your message to the address of the list. For example, to reach the MLIS students's list, make sure it's addressed to "mlis-students@interchange.ubc.ca"
School-Wide
Lists |
Name
of List |
List Description |
mas-students |
Master of Archival Studies students [for
currently enrolled MAS students] |
mas-core |
Students in any/all of the MAS required
core courses [limited to students currently in the MAS
core] |
mlis-students |
Master of Library and Information Studies
students [for currently enrolled MLIS students] |
mlis-core |
Students in any/all of the MLIS core
courses [limted to students currently in the MLIS core] |
joint-students |
Joint MAS/MLIS Program students [for currently
enrolled MAS/MLIS students] |
cas-students |
Certificate of Advanced Studies students for students currently enrolled in the CAS program] |
macl-students |
Master of Arts in Children's Literature
students [for currently enrolled MACL students] |
phd-students |
SLAIS Doctoral degree Program students
[for currently enrolled Ph.D. students] |
SlaisJobs |
SLAIS Job Postings [open to students and
all interested professionals]. send blank e-mail to: SlaisJobs-subscribe@yahoogroups.ca |
macl-program |
Master of Arts in Children's Literature
Program [for currently enrolled students and faculty] |
fnc-program |
First Nations Concentration
[for
currently enrolled students and staff and faculty] |
slais-mug |
SLAIS Macintosh Users Group [A listserv
for SLAIS students who use Apple Macintosh computers.] |
|
Course Discussion Lists for Winter 2009 Term 1 [as of September 16] |
Name of
List |
Course Number & Name |
a-500 |
ARST 500: Information Technology & Archives |
a-510 |
ARST 510: Archival Diplomatics |
a-515 |
ARST 515: Arrangement And Description Of Archival Documents |
a-530 |
ARST 530: The History of Administration in the Canadian Juridical System |
a-555 |
ARST 555: The Preservation of Digital Records |
a-591 |
ARST 591: Archival Research And Scholarship |
a-610 |
ARST 610 : Theoretical and Research Foundations of Archival Studies |
l-501 |
LIBR 501: Foundations of the Information Society and Information Organizations |
l-502 |
LIBR 502: Foundations of Resource Description and Access |
l-505k |
LIBR 505: Research Methods in Information Organizations |
l-516 |
LIBR 516: Information Asset Management |
l-521 |
LIBR 521: Contemporary Literature and Other Materials for Children |
l-525 |
LIBR 525: Illustrated Literature and Other Materials for Children |
l-527 |
LIBR 527: Services for Children |
l-531 |
LIBR 531: Client Centred Services for Adults |
l-539b |
LIBR 539B: Specialized Materials: Visual Arts and Performing Arts Special Collections |
l-557 |
LIBR 557: Information Retrieval Concepts and Practice |
l-559i [ lowercase letter i] |
LIBR 559I: Topics in Computer-Based Information Systems: Metadata and Content Management Systems for Digital Collections |
l-559l [lowercase letter l] |
LIBR 559L: Topics In Computer-Based Information Systems: Issues in Scholarly Communications and Publishing |
l-561 |
LIBR 561: Information Policy |
l-571 [lowercase letter l - numeral 1] |
LIBR 571: Human Resource Management |
l-579b |
LIBR 579B: Topics in the Management of Libraries and Archives: Community-Led Libraries |
l-580 |
LIBR 580: Collection Management |
To report a problem in either lab send a message to: mss@interchange.ubc.ca.
Please describe the problem in detail and note on which workstation
and in which lab the problem occurred.
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