As most of you know, I subscribe to H-Net's H-Diplo List for diplomatic
historians. Not that I always suceed in being diplomatic, although I
try most of the time. LOL. I just received the following
announcement. Did anyone in the past belong to what is described below
as the H-LIS network (1997-2000)? Any thoughts on how well that worked?
H-Net has moderated discussion groups. I'm not a huge fan of moderated
discussion groups. On the other hand, I recognize that unmoderated
groups sometimes invite bullying tactics simply because the group is
inclusive and members are going to have differing personalities, goals,
tactics, etc. (I was a total nose-in-a-book geek in my K-12 years, I
have no understanding of the psychology of bullies, LOL.). On the
whole, even with the prospect of people shouting at each other, blah
blah blah, I still lean towards preferring unmoderated groups. I like
freedom of speech, yappity yappity yap! But, since I've been looking
for a long time for a group that brings together historians,
archivists, librarians and other information professionals, I'm
thinking of subscribing to the H-Net group. See notice below. Again,
I welcome thoughts from anyone who once subscribed to H-LIS. Any
insights as to why it only operated for 3 years?
Maarja
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From: H-Diplo [Ball] <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:51:10 -0400
Subject: ANNOUNCING H-INFO: H-Net Network for Information and
Information Institutions
ANNOUNCING H-INFO: H-Net Network for Information and Information
Institutions
Member of: H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
ABOUT I. The H-Info Network: Scope, Content, Purpose.
To subscribe, please check
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H-INFO includes
* the history and foundations of library and information
sciences;
* the history of libraries, archives, document-based
cultural
repositories, and other information institutions;
* the foundations and history of print culture; and
* reading and reception histories.
H-INFO is an arena in which the multiple interests of
librarian scholars, library historians, book historians, cultural
historians,
archivists, and information scientists can converge and, ideally, engage
and
enrich a broader community of discourse.
It is a revival of the H-LIS network which ran on H-Net from 1997-2000,
covering the interdisciplinary study of libraries and information
broadly
construed to include literacy and reading, print culture, libraries and
archives, computerization and automation, information retrieval and
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