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Started in June 1992, LM_NET is the discussion group serving worldwide school library media community. It is operated by Mike Eisenberg of Syracuse University and Peter Milbury of Chico High School, Chico, California. It currently has 10,868 subscribers.

 

This is a worldwide discussion group for school library media specialists and other educators interested in the Big 6 Skills approach to information literacy skills.

 

This is a discussion list primarily for the convenience of Iowa Library Association members who wish to discuss issues related to the ILA in particular or libraries in general. Subscribers need not be ILA members. The list is not moderated.

 

The audience for this discussion group will typically be Library Media Specialists who work in K-12 schools in Iowa, and those who share their professional concerns, interests and mission. The purpose of this group is to facilitate professional communication among Iowa school library media specialists, provide mentoring, disseminate research findings, discuss intellectual freedom and share applications of the Internet and other online services. This discussion group is a joint project of the University of Northern Iowa's Instructional Resources and Technology Services and the Division of Library Science, both are in the College of Education. It is an unmoderated discussion group.

 

"The State Library of Iowa Online (SILO) Project has made 29 state library databases available for searching and retrieving bibliographic records over the Internet. The databases consist primarily of public access catalogs made available from each of the participating libraries."

 

This is a discussion group for issues of interest to Association for Educational Communications and Technology members. Currently, subscription to the list is open and anyone who is interested in AECT and issues relate to AECt may subscribe.

 

An open subscription, "read only" mailing list available to everyone interested in the programs and events of AASL and its affiliates. Disseminates it 'snews releases and other information of interest to the school library media profession.

 

 

A listserv devoted to discussion and critical analysis of children's literature. Its subscribers tend to approach children's literature in a somewhat academic way.

 

"CCBC-Net is an electronic forum of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to encourage awareness and discussion of issues essential to literature for children and young adults. It provides opportunities for spontaneous as well as guided discussions of contemporary literature for children and young adults; the book arts; book publishing, including alternative press publishing for the young; and intellectual freedom issues involving minors' access to books in classrooms, school library media centers and public libraries."

 

"The Early Childhood Education On-line Listserv community offers support and opportunities for information exchange to all educators: families, teachers, caregivers, and others interested in providing quality care and learning situations for young children birth through 8 years."

 

A listserv that deals with the Learning Style Movement (people have preferred ways of learning and we can maximize teaching by taking all these styles into account). There are many flavors of learning styles and all are welcome at EDSTYLES, but the orientation is toward the Learning Styles Movement Model of Dunn and Dunn. The list is open to anyone interested in education.

 

This listserv was founded in 1989 to bring together faculty, educators, students, and interested others in the field of educational technology to share ideas and information. Subscription is free.

 

"The Forum on Censorship and Intellectual Freedom is a moderate discussion group that serves as a national registry of censorship challenges in Canada, and as an open forum for faculty members, librarians, researchers, teachers and other interested in the question of censorship challenges, and as a means to share ideas for defending intellectual freedom, as well as an ongoing registry of Canadian censorship challenges."

 

This is a closed listserv for members only of IASL. It is for communication between members throughout the world, and for the distribution of announcements, discussion papers, articles, news, and information about projects, and information from IASL conferences and meetings.

 

ITEC (Iowa Technology & Education Connection)

This is an electronic mailing list to receive timely information on topics related to educational technology.

 

This is a discussion list about childnren's literature, involving teachers, librarians, students, and others interested in the field.

 

This is a discussion list for children's and young adult librarians in public libraries.

 

"The USMARC Forum is a moderated computer forum open to anyone interested in discussing the implementation, maintenance, changes, and development of USMARC formats. While there is a close linkage between USMARC as a communications format and the cataloging of materials, the focus of USMARC Forum is on USMARC the communications format." This is maintained by the Library of Congress.

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