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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: 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.]

slais-admin

Students will be automatically subscribed to the slais-admin list during the first week, provided they have subscribed to at least one of the above lists (except SLAISJobs). Do so before you begin your FIRST term of studies. Upon completion of your studies, you will need to unsubscribe from these lists. Doing so will generate an automatic unsubscription from slais-admin. You do not need to unsubscribe from slais-admin.

 

Course Discussion Lists for Term 2 [January 2012], 2011-2012 Winter Session [as of January 19, 2012]

Name of List

Course Number & Name

l-504

ARST 570: Management of Information Organizations

a-520

ARST 520: Selection And Acquisition Of Archival Documents

a-517

ARST 517: History of Record Keeping

la-554

ARST 554: Database Design

l-505k

ARST 591: Archival Research And Scholarship

 

 

l-502

LIBR 502: Foundations of Resource Description and Access

l-504

LIBR 504: Management of Information Organizations

l-505k

LIBR 505: Research Methods in Information Organizations

l-511

LIBR 511: Cataloguing and Classification

l-520

LIBR 520: Survey of Literature and Other Materials for Children

l-523

LIBR 523: Canadian Literature and Other Materials for Children

l-534

LIBR 534: Health Information Sources and Services

l-553

LIBR 553: Understanding User Behaviour

la-554

LIBR 554: Database Design

l-579L LIBR 579L: Risk 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