For our webpage listing legal-based discussion groups including
listservs, forums, message boards, and chat rooms, please visit
http://washlaw.edu/listserv/
If you know of others, please email me off-list. I plan to compile a
list to share with the group.
Also, I have been doing research on various types of discussion groups
and how they affect learning/information dissemination. I was curious
as to what works best between listservs and forums (message boards).
For example, unmoderated listservs tend to be quicker and are great at
encouraging participation through continuous reminders. Information
users can get answers a lot quicker. (I have experienced that here.)
However, finding past messages often require searching through one's
inbox or a site compiling them.
On the other hand, forums have the advantage of easily recalling past
information in an organized method. Topics are categorized. Non-legal
and non-librarian forums tend to be less organized (surprised?).
Moderators are often needed to maintain this kind of discussion group
and sometimes affect the forum with their own biases.
Regards,
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Andrew Evans, Documents/ Legal Reference
Washburn University Law Library
1700 SW College Ave
Topeka KS 66621
(785) 231-1010 ext. 1787
andrew.evans@washburn.edu
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