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Ozlib Announce

Ozlib Announce is a newsletter for Australian librarians and people interested in libraries. The content is restricted events which relate to Australian libraries and librarians taking a fairly broad view of what that might be.

Content

Content for the service will focus on events in Australia although they may not necessarily be located in Australia. The subject scope will be interpreted fairly liberally as "of interest" covers a much wider ground than library science. Examples of the kinds of material which may be included are -

Submitting copy

Proposed copy should be sent to ozlib@tony-barry.emu.id.au or to tony@tony-barry.emu.id.au

Copy should be submitted as plain text although other formats will be accepted if they can be appropriately converted or mounted on this web site. HTML and RTF are preferable to Word. Formatted text will not be used in the email version of the newsletter although it may be used in the archives.

Material from commercial firms will be accepted but a subdued style would be best with URL links to further information.

The editor will extract and summarise material as appropriate but will try not to distort the meaning in the copy.

Who can submit copy

So who can submit copy? Basically anybody, although if you are submitting information concerning the organisation in which you work make sure that appropriate clearances are met as this is a public forum and the archives will be indexed.

Subscribing

Ozlib is run by macjordomo software (not majordomo). To subscribe send a message -

SUBSCRIBE ozlib {your name} to -

macjordomo@tony-barry.emu.id.au

Macjordomo Software

Majordomo software was written by Michele Fuortes of Leuca software at Cornell University. It runs on the Macintosh operating system

The currently accepted commands are the following and all must appear in the body of the message. You can send multiple commands, each in one line finishing with END.

SUBSCRIBE List_Name Your_FirstName Your_LastName
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UNSUBSCRIBE List_Name
Unsubscribes you from the list called List_Name.
LIST
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REVIEW List_Name
Shows the list of user currently subscribing to List_Name.
HELP
Sends this message.
INFO List_Name
Send information on the list
INDEX List_Name
Shows a list of documents available for GET
SEARCH List_Name Key_Word
Searches the documents for a key_word
GET List_Name File_Name
Retrieves the document called File_Name
SET List_Name OPTION
Set your subscription parameters to OPTION
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(default options are indicated)
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  • INACTIVE : Suspends your subscription until the next ACTIVE command.
  • DIGEST : Sends digests rather than individual messages
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