Ok I realize I haven't posted in a while and I appologize. We are in the midst of doing 2005 journal renewals and renewing our Ovid 2005 license as well. We discovered some serious opporutnities that if all fell into place correctly would allow us to actually expand our electronic journal collection while saving money! Gasp! Get more titles for less?!?! With the help of a consortia for part of it and Serials Solutions Article Linker things we couldn't do before were looking more practical. As a result we were able to avoid A LOT of duplication costing us tens of thousands of dollars and apply that money elsewhere. It was kind of fun.

Anyway, while I was cutting costs and a redistributing money I wanted to mention this nice little list serv for web managers. It is called Web4Lib. It is specifically aimed toward librarians and library staff involved in World-Wide Web management, but anyone is welcome to join the discussion. They have approximately 3,200 subscribers and about 15-20 messages are posted a day. The list was started back in 1994 so there are probably quite a few messages in the archives.

I know with all the list servs librarians are on these days it seem like we need to to subscribe to another like we need a hole in our heads. But I say subscribe, try it out, if it doesn't work for you then unsubscribe. That is the beauty of technology we can change our mind and unsubscribe.