[Asis-l] Announcing H-INFO: H-Net Network for Information and Information Institutions

[bvmartens at ou.edu]

Dear Colleagues,

You might be interested in this new listserv at H-Net, which is a revival and extension of the
earlier H-LIS listserv there. 

H-INFO: H-Net Network for Information and Information Institutions
Member of: H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online

About The H-Info Network: Scope, Content, Purpose.

H-INFO includes
* the history and foundations of library and information sciences;
* the history of libraries, archives, document-based cultural repositories,
and other information institutions;
* the foundations and history of print culture;
* reading and reception histories;
* the history of Information retrieval and documentation
and electronic information and communication.

H-INFO is an arena in which the multiple interests of librarian scholars, library historians, book
historians, cultural historians, archivists, and information scientists can converge and, ideally,
engage and enrich a broader community of discourse.

It is a revival of the H-LIS network which ran on H-Net from 1997-2000, now covering the
interdisciplinary study of libraries and information, broadly construed to include libraries and
archives, print culture, literacy and reading, information retrieval and documentation, and electronic 
information and communication.

H-INFO services include general dialogue, sharing of references, syllabi, and other materials,
reviewing of relevant books, and journals.

Like all H-Net lists, H-INFO is moderated to edit out material that, in the editors' opinion, is not
germane to the list, involves technical matters (such as subscription management requests), is
inflammatory, or violates evolving, yet common, standards of Internet etiquette. H-Net's
procedure for resolving disputes over list editorial practices is Article II, Section 2.20 of our
bylaws, located at:

http://www.h-net.org/about/by-laws.php

H-INFO is currently edited by Betsy Van der Veer Martens, University of Oklahoma School of
Library & Information Studies, and Matthew Gilmore of H-Net. H-INFO advisory board members
include Marcia Bates, Ed Goedeken, David Gracy, Wallace Koehler, Christine Pawley, and Robert V.
Williams.

Logs and more information can also be located at:

http://www.h-net.org/~info

Check out the "resources" page at: http://www.h-net.org/~info/resources.html
for
* Academic Journals
* Information-Related Organizations
* Information-Related Projects


To join H-INFO, please send a message from the account where you wish to receive mail, to:

listserv at h-net.msu.edu

(with no signatures or styled text, word wrap off for long lines) and only this text:

sub H-INFO firstname lastname, institution
Example: sub H-INFO Leslie Jones, Pacific State U

Alternatively, you may go to http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi to perform the same
function as noted above.

Follow the instructions you receive by return mail.  If you have questions or experience difficulties
in attempting to subscribe, please send a message to:

help at mail.h-net.msu.edu

H-Net is an international network of scholars in the humanities and social sciences that creates
and coordinates electronic networks, using a variety of media, and with a common objective of
advancing humanities and social science teaching and research. H-Net was created to provide a
positive, supportive, equalitarian environment for the friendly exchange of ideas and scholarly
resources, and is hosted by Michigan State University. For more information about H-Net, write to
webstaff at mail.h-net.msu.edu, or point your web browser to:

http://www.h-net.org

Cordially,
Betsy Van der Veer Martens
University of Oklahoma School of Library & Information Studies