Dear ARLIS Members-
For the past two years I've worked as a consultant with the U.S.
Department of State providing workshops, lectures, webcasts, and even
radio interviews throughout Latin America on the use of Web 2.0
technologies. I liked how Sarah Falls encapsulated the use of Web 2.0,
"they are all a part of a big puzzle where the pieces to not fit
seamlessly." In my workshops, I always mention that social networking
sites, such as Facebook and Myspace are NOT replacements for a
organization's Website, listserv, or any other form of communication
means. It is a tool that can help us outreach to folks who may or may
not be aware of our cause, in this case art librarianship. Social
networking sites are here to stay and they can certainly help ARLIS
outreach to new members and old.
BTW, I am not saying that everyone should go out and get a social
networking account, but I do believe that ARLIS should have a presence
there and allow people (not just members) to learn about ARLIS. With
that said, ARLIS should probably have a policy that says that it will
use the ARLIS listserv as it's primary form of formal communication.
For example, statements by the ARLIS President will go on the ARLIS
listserv. Therefore, members should be encouraged to subscribe to
ARLIS-L.
Thanks!!
-Mario
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The Corcoran Library
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From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Heather Gendron
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Facebook vs ARLIS-L
It's interesting to hear that some institutions ban these kinds of
sites. Here at UNC, within our libraries, we are encouraged to join
Facebook, chat with each other, etc. John's hit on something though -
it can be almost impossible to separate one's personal and professional
lives in Facebook and other sites.
--
Heather Gendron
Art Librarian
Sloane Art Library
UNC Chapel Hill
102 Hanes Art Center
CB#3405
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3405
Phone: 919.962.1061
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John Taormina wrote:
> Max,
>
> I have always had my professional listservs automatically filtered to
> specific local mailboxes. It keeps everything intact and separate
> from regular e-mail and you can view it anytime.
>
> I also tend to view Facebook as non-professional social networking and
> leave the various organizational sponsored listservs for the
> professional stuff. Honestly, do we really need to become "fans" of
> ARLIS/NA or VRA on Facebook when we are already dues-paying members?
>
> John
>
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> Not surprisingly, it sounds like lots of us are trying to strike a
>> balance that lets us stay attuned to the things our colleagues are
>> doing and saying that interest us, while filtering out things that
>> don't, so we can manage our time well. It's been suggested that one
>> can do this with a listserv by cultivating a quick trigger finger
>> when it comes to hitting the delete button. That's one solution.
>>
>> I wonder if I'm alone in having adopted another solution to this
>> problem. When I subscribe to a listserv like ARLIS-L, I immediately
>> set my "preferences" to "no mail" so that no listserv postings at all
>> will arrive in my in-box as email. Then I simply bookmark the web
>> archives for the listservs that interest me, and I consult them
>> periodically, often several times a day, but only when I elect to do
>> so. I find this lets me manage the listservs rather than being
>> managed by them, while still keeping up pretty well. And it is only
>> fair to say that this probably makes me more tolerant of idle
>> listserv postings like my own of last Saturday re "Arlisia" - it's
>> easy to tolerate what you can easily filter out!
>>
>> Just in case listserv web archives aren't familiar to everybody,
>> here's how it works. In the case of ARLIS-L, when you want to see
>> what's up on the list, you can go to the web archive at
>> http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html (as instructed on the
>> ARLIS/NA web site page devoted to ARLIS-L; see
>> http://www.arlisna.org/about/arlisl.html). There you can peruse
>> postings for any given month (including the current one) sorted in
>> any of a variety of ways: by date (most recent first, or in
>> chronological order) or by topic or author, etc. You can also search
>> the entire archive and you can respond (to the list or an individual)
>> via the web. These browse features of the ARLIS-L web archive are
>> entirely typical of most such archives, and this very standardization
>> makes it quite easy to scan multiple list archives efficiently. Some
>> browsers, of course, let you create a "tab group" and to conveniently
>> open several archives at once if you're so inclined.
>>
>> What one loses in this mode is instant awareness of every listserv
>> posting, but there are probably other folks who, like me, would
>> sacrifice that for the ability to stay relatively current while still
>> consulting the listserv postings selectively and only when one
>> chooses to do so, rather than having to assume a defensive posture,
>> with finger poised over the delete button.
>>
>> Apologies if the whole world already knows that most listservs have
>> such web archives and that they have their uses. Since it hadn't
>> been mentioned in this email chain, I thought I'd mention it.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Max Marmor
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
> --
>
> John J. Taormina
> Director, Visual Resources Center
> Dept. of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
> Duke University
> Box 90764
> 112 East Duke Building
> Durham NC 27708-0764
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> forgotten."/
>
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>
> /Aretha Franklin: "No, darling, I'm not in love no more, and that's
> when it's really good, when you don't want him no more. That's when
> it's the best."/
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