Rajashekar, TB and Meenaxi, Gulla (1997) LIS FORUM:E-mail Discussion Forum for Library and Information Services. In: Information Today and Tomorrow, 16 (3). pp. 9-13.
E-mail based discussion forums are one of the early applications of e-mail developed on networks like Bitnet, which have become very popular on Internet also. Using e-mail as the medium, forums enable informal communication among a group of people in a specific area, irrespective of their geographical location. Computer software used to set up and operate a forum on a network computer; is called as the list server There are several such public domain soft wares available with much commonality in their features. These have been used to operate hundreds of forums on the Internet. Electronic guides also exist facilitating easy ‘identification of forums in specific areas. LIS-FORUM has been set up on a network computer at NCSI, to meet the communication needs of users and providers of library and information services in India. The article describes operational features of discussion forums, their relevance, forum software and its components. It then discusses the features of LIS-FORUM, current status and future plans.
|Item Type:||Journal Article|
|Department/Centre:||Division of Information Sciences > National Centre for Science Information|
|Date Deposited:||17 Aug 2004|
|Last Modified:||19 Sep 2010 04:14|
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