VIVA Listservs
VIVA maintains four listservs for communicating with members on various isssues. VIVA also maintains a blog and a prescence on Facebook. Various committees maintain dedicated Wikis.
VAVIRTUA-L (General VIVA Information) [About] [Subscribe/Unsubscribe] [Post to the List]
VIVAILL-L (Interlibrary Loan) [About] [Subscribe/Unsubscribe] [Post to the List]
VIVASC-L (VIVA Special Collections and Archives) [About] [Subscribe]
TIC-L (Technical Information) [About] [Subscribe]
VIVA Policy on Listservs
(Approved by the VIVA Steering Committee on March 4, 2010)
PURPOSE
The VIVA listservs are VIVA's primary means of communicating with VIVA member librarians throughout the Commonwealth. Messages generally involve VIVA committee announcements and VIVA requests for comments from the Virginia higher education library community. Archives are available beginning in October 1997.
POLICY
While primarily intended for members of the Virginia academic library community, VAVIRTUA-L and VIVAILL-L are open to all, while VIVASC-L and TIC-L are accessible only by approval. VIVA’s vendors are encouraged to join these the open listservs, but are expected to strictly adhere to the general guidelines below. All listservs are unmoderated, but only members of the listserv may post. In order to maintain the free flow of communication on the listservs, VIVA listserv administrators ask that list participants adhere strictly to the general guidelines below. Repeated violations of the guidelines will result in removal from the listserv.
General guidelines
- Appropriate messages on both listservs include VIVA communications to its members, announcements related to VIVA committee activities, information about ILL activities within VIVA, and discussion related to the collections, operations and mission of VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia.
- Inappropriate messages on the listservs include vendor promotions, external event notices, job postings and other announcements not directly related to VIVA’s mission and operations.
- All messages must include an identifiable author and corresponding, working email address.
- Messages must not contain file attachments.
- Only messages that are respectful, professional and courteous are permitted.
VAVIRTUA-L
ABOUT VAVIRTUA-L
The VAVIRTUA-L listserv is VIVA's primary means of communicating with participants throughout the Commonwealth. In addition to posting all VIVA committee meeting announcements and minutes, other important announcements are made on this list and committees often request comments from the VIVA community via this listserv. Archives are available beginning in October 1997. We encourage all members of the Virginia academic library community to subscribe to VAVIRTUA-L. Vendors are asked not to post promotions to the VIVA listserv.
VAVIRTUA-L is open (i.e. anyone, including vendors and people outside of Virginia, may and do subscribe) and unmoderated (i.e. any participant on the list may post directly to the list; no one moderates or edits messages.)
SUBSCRIBE TO VAVIRTUA-L
To subscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@listserv.vt.edu with the following message:
subscribe vavirtua-l [Your Name]
[Substitute your name]Leave the subject area blank and delete any automatic signatures your e-mail may have. You should get a confirmation from the listserv that you have been added to the list. Save the confirmation message for later reference.
To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@listserv.vt.edu with the following message:
unsubscribe vavirtua-l
HELP WITH VAVIRTUA-L
For assistance, contact Curtis Carr <Curtis.Carr@vt.edu>.
VIVAILL-L
ABOUT VIVAILL-L
The VIVAILL-L listserv facilitates discussions among VIVA interlibrary loan librarians. The listeserv is the official means of communication to the VIVA interlibrary loan community from the VIVA Resource Sharing Committee.
VIVAILL-L is open (i.e. anyone, including vendors and people outside of Virginia, may and do subscribe) and unmoderated (i.e. any participant on the list may post directly to the list; no one moderates or edits messages.)
SUBSCRIBE TO VIVAILL-L
To subscribe to VIVAILL-L, send an e-mail to listserv@lists.vcu.edu with the following message:
sub vivaill-l [Your Name]
[Substitute your name]Leave the subject area blank and delete any automatic signatures your e-mail may have. You should get a confirmation from the listserv that you have been added to the list. Save the confirmation message for later reference.
To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@lists.vcu.edu with the following message:
signoff vivaill-l
HELP WITH VIVAILL-L
For assistance, contact Shirley Thomas <srthomas@vcu.edu>.
VIVASC-L
ABOUT VIVASC-L
The VIVASC-L listserv is for VIVA Special Collections and Archives librarians and the Virginia Heritage Project
Task Force.
SUBSCRIBE TO VIVASC-L
To subscribe to VIVAILL-L, send an e-mail to listserv@lists.vcu.edu with the following message:
sub vivasc-l [Your Name]
[Substitute your name]Leave the subject area blank and delete any automatic signatures your e-mail may have. You should get a confirmation from the listserv that you have been added to the list. Save the confirmation message for later reference.
To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@lists.vcu.edu with the following message:
signoff vivasc-l
ABOUT TIC-L
The TIC-L listserv is for discussion of technical issues faced by VIVA members. Subscribers may wish to pose a question (on TIC-lish issues) to that list once in a while to see if other schools are experiencing a problem or to see how others are dealing with issues. This listserv is not very active, but it comes in handy from time to time.
TIC-L is a closed listserv, restricted to VIVA participants only.
SUBSCRIBE TO TIC-L
To subscribe to TIC-L, please send a request to be added to the list to the VIVA Office. Please use "Request to be added to TIC-L" in the subject line.
To unsubscribe, please send a request to be removed from the list to the VIVA Office. Please use "Request to be removed from TIC-L" in the subject line.
HELP WITH TIC-L
For assistance, contact the VIVA Office.