Brian's suggestions are excellent, and I heartily endorse them.
-- Bryan M. Carson Ed.D Candidate, Higher Ed. Leadership & Policy Peabody College, Vanderbilt UniversityAssociate Professor/Coordinator of Reference & Instructional Services Western Kentucky University Libraries, Bowling Green, Kentucky Author, "The Law of Libraries and Archives" (Scarecrow Press)
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Bryan M. Carson
Brian Striman wrote: > Colleagues & Judy: > > This will remain an unresolved, reoccuring problem, until it is > addressed. Here are some ideas: > > 1. Creation of a law-lib Advisory Group. This group's purpose is to > provide the list owner with comments and suggestions as necessary > regarding all list activities. Deletion of membership is determined by > the Advisory Group, the chair being the list owner. Any member of the > 5-person Advisory Group can ask for a meeting to discuss an issue. > Issues will be handled quickly in order to resolve the issue, and > prevent lingering posts from many on the list. > > 2. A law-lib /Posting Guidelines/ document will be sent to each member > after a member signs up. A yearly announcement from the list owner of > these guidelines will be posted once a year to the list for all members. > Members who do not follow the guidelines shall be candidates for removal > if the member violates a one-warning-message sent to the violator from > the Advisory Group. In a situation where two or more parties are > involved with a violation, the Advisory Group makes the decisions as to > the best course of action. > > 3. Each approved member to the law-lib list must be, at some point, > verified as a person having an "actual" real name who can be identified > and contacted. Posters having no positive identity will not be permitted > to post. The list owner has the privilege to contact a suspected alias, > and if no contact can be made to verify the person, they shall be > deleted from the list. > > "Friday-lite" topics, occasional humor, and some professional musings, > would not fall into this arena. > > --- > > > *LAW* > * > * > Brian Striman > Head of Technical Services > Schmid Law Library > University of Nebraska College of Law > 402-472-8286 > > > >
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