Electronic Lists
| Subscribing to a List | Unsubscribing from a List | Managing Subscription Options |
Electronic Lists are topical electronic mail discussion groups in which you may participate as an active speaker or as a passive reader. You must subscribe to lists to receive the conversations and reply to the sender or to the entire list of subscribers.
The School of Library and Information Science maintains three lists:
- slisadmin: The official School of Library and Information Science list for administrative information. All students must subscribe to slisadmin in order to receive critical administrative information. Note: Unlike the other lists, students cannot send notes to this list. Only SLIS administration / faculty / staff can post notes to slisadmin. [Hotmail users: see Hotmail users not Receiving E-mail for information about turning off spam filtering.]
- quickslis: A list dedicated to practical information sharing for SLIS students.
- alumni: A list dedicated to alumni interaction.
In addition, the School hosts the following list for the California library community:
- CALIX A list dedicated to discussion and dissemination of information among members of the California Library Association.
Slisadmin is the only required list for students. Subscribing to other lists is optional.
Be selective when subscribing to lists. Some electronic discussion groups generate an enormous number of messages.
If you have a SLIS e-mail account
Proper e-mail management is a critical responsibility. SLIS e-mail accounts have limited storage capacity. If you receive large volumes of e-mail, it will certainly be necessary to check your account daily to save and/or delete messages. Failure to manage your account could result in the removal of e-mail privileges. For instructions on checking the size of your SLIS e-mail account, see the following: slisweb.sjsu.edu/tutorials/diskusage/checkdu.html.
Subscription Management:
To subscribe to a list, unsubscribe from a list, access the list archives, or manage your subscription options, click on the appropriate link below:
- SLISADMIN: lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/slisadmin
- QUICKSLIS: lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/quickslis
- ALUMNI: lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alumni
- CALIX: lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/calix
Sending Messages to the List
Messages to all subscribers of the list must be sent to the proper address. See instructions for sending messages to the list.
In most e-mail lists, all subscribers can post messages. However, this is not true of slisadmin. Only administrators, faculty and office staff can post to slisadmin.
Searching the List Archives and Viewing Archived Messages
The SLIS lists were migrated to a new list managament system (called "Mailman") on November 14th, 2007. Unfortunately, there was no way to effectively migrate the existing list archives over to the new system. Consequently, there are two separate procedures for accessing list archives.For messages posted after November 14th, 2007:
Use the Subscription Management links included above.For messages posted prior to November 14th, 2007:
For instructions on searching the old list archives, please contact Stanley Laufer. Instructions will eventually be added here as well.
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