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