By Jessica Pietsch
Last week I met Peter Green at Murdoch’s Geoffrey Bolton
Library. Starting out in my role as ALIA WA State Manager, many people had
suggested I reach out to Peter, a pivotal ‘WA library leader’, partly because
of his work in creating and maintaining the WAIN mailing list server that we
all benefit so much from.
Library. Starting out in my role as ALIA WA State Manager, many people had
suggested I reach out to Peter, a pivotal ‘WA library leader’, partly because
of his work in creating and maintaining the WAIN mailing list server that we
all benefit so much from.
Peter started the list back in 1994 and maintained it in
1995 whilst he was working in Kalgoorlie, despite dial-up Internet being the
only form of connection. Whilst we were together, Peter reflected on the
primitiveness of the elist technology, surprisingly though emailhas persevered within our networked society.
1995 whilst he was working in Kalgoorlie, despite dial-up Internet being the
only form of connection. Whilst we were together, Peter reflected on the
primitiveness of the elist technology, surprisingly though emailhas persevered within our networked society.
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It turns out that WAIN currently has over 2100 subscribers. Peter
described his role as coordinator of the network as “a light touch…mostly
people are extraordinarily sensitive and appropriate”, all subscribers start
out moderated, then when they post something relevant to the LIS community,
Peter changes their status to un-moderated.
You can subscribe to the Western Australian Information Network (WAIN) easily and for free, the list
has three primary purposes:
has three primary purposes:
- To allow dissemination of information about
events of interest to members of the library and information profession. - To discuss issues that are of interest to a
broad cross section of the Profession. - To advertise positions that have become
available.
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