Net Notes: E-mail lists

Following on from the last Net Notes column, this month we take a look at overseas library e-mail lists and some general directories of e-lists.

General
IFLA mailing lists
http://www.ifla.org/II/iflalist.htm

Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials
http://liblists.wrlc.org/

Internet Library for Librarians
http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/email.htm
Portal with information on library e-mail lists and newsgroups.

United Kingdom
Check the Library category of the National Academic Mailing List Service at:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/
There's an e-mail list for every topic under the sun, including "Icelandic resources in UK academic libraries" (EGIL) and "registration of qualifiers to the Dublin Core Element Set" (DC-Registry), not to mention the standard lists on ILL, acquisitions, CPD, and so on. Those interested in CPD might want a look at LIS-CILIP-REG which is the British equivalent of aliaCPD.

United States
The American Library Association currently has 187 lists. General information about subscribing and unsubscribing is available at:
http://www.ala.org/membership/lists.html

Detailed information is available from the web interface which lets you subscribe, unsubscribe, or change subscription options once you have registered:
http://lp-web.ala.org:8000/

Special Library Association
http://www.sla.org/content/interactive/lists/index.cfm
Like the ALA, you can use the web interface to join or leave lists.

General directories
Regional
National Academic Mailing List Service (UK)
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

Ozlists
http://www.gu.edu.au/ozlists/
Ozlists is a directory of Australian e-lists, arranged by subject.

International
Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists
http://paml.net/
Nearly 6900 lists covered. Can search under subject or name of list.

Catalist, the official catalogue of Listserv lists
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
Covers 58 000 lists. Can browse by host country but subject searching is quite limited.

Camille Peters

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