Re: [LM_NET] Copyright - LM_NET postings

[Betty Winslow <bwinslow1165@YAHOO.COM>]

AMEN!!

Betty Winslow
Media Center Director
BGCA
1165 Haskins Rd.
Bowling Green OH
bwinslow1165@yahoo.com

--- On Fri, 5/29/09, Blythe Allison Bennett <babennet@SYR.EDU> wrote:


From: Blythe Allison Bennett <babennet@SYR.EDU>
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Copyright - LM_NET postings
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 6:25 PM


I'm in agreement with the less than modern search capabilities with the archives, 
but I want to remind everyone that:

1. Syracuse University has run our listserv, free of charge, since 1992. It is the 
largest listserv that they have ever hosted.

2. The Information Institute, which has managed the archives since 1992, free of 
charge, has gone from a staff of about 40 to about 1.5 people. I worked there for 
10 years, have the deepest love and respect for the original Director, Mike 
Eisenberg, and current Director, David Lankes, and I appreciate all the staff time 
they have provided for LM_NET, free of charge. They do amazing things on a 
shoestring budget.

3. The script used in the search function I believe dates from 1992 or maybe a few 
years after that, but yes, it is primitive in comparison to modern technology. The 
script was provided to us way back when, free of charge, at a time when it was 
something a for-profit would have had to pay for.

This listserv is wildly successful, highly trafficked, and wonderfully supportive. 
It is just that it takes volunteer time and free technical support and server 
space, so unless there is a big infusion of financial aid, there won't be any 
change to the current set-up. 

I'd love to have a more robust search capability and would love to do some data 
mining, but I'll continue to be grateful to a kind staff and institution who has 
supported us for free for the past 17 years.

Blythe



Blythe Allison Bennett 
Assistant Director, School Media Program 
Director Summer Institute
School of Information Studies, Syracuse University 
114 Hinds Hall 
babennet@syr.edu 
(315) 443-5445 






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