SLAIS ELECTRONIC Discussion Lists

• School-Wide Lists
• Course Discussion Lists for Winter 2009 Term 2 [January - April]

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: 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]
dual-students	Dual 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 January 3, 2010]
Name of List	Course Number & Name
a-520	ARST 520: Selection And Acquisition Of Archival Documents
a-540	ARST 540: Archival Public Services
a-550	ARST 550: Management Of Audio-Visual And Non-Textual Archives
a-556a	ARST 556A: Digital Diplomatics
a-610	ARST 610: Theoretical and Research Foundations
l-513	LIBR 513: Cataloguing Special and Non-Book Materials
l-524	LIBR 524: Writing, Publishing and the Book Trade for Children
l-525	LIBR 525: Illustrated Literature and Other Materials for Children
l-529	LIBR 529: Services for Families and Early Literacy in the Preschool Years
l-534	LIBR 534: Health Information Sources and Services
l-551	LIBR 551:Library Automation
l-559a	LIBR 559A: Understanding Information Users in Diverse Environments
l-559j	LIBR 559J: Technologies and Techniques for Digital Collection Building
l-563	LIBR 563: Information Ethics & Intellectual Freedom
l-576	LIBR 576: Public Libraries
l-578	LIBR 578: Library Planning
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.