Conference proceeding
EBB and flow: An electronic bulletin board
Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on user services, pp.203-207
SIGUCCS '81
10/11/1981
DOI: 10.1145/800079.802589
Abstract
To get information out more quickly, WCC began publishing an interim newsletter called "Newsearlier." This newsletter was not typeset and was very short-about 2-3 pages; it took only about three days to get "Newsearlier" printed and distributed. Still several days passed between when the information was collected, written, and printed and when it was actually distributed. Also, because each issue contained several articles, "hot" articles had to wait a few days until other such items were collected.
Besides all of the writing and production time that makes the news late, the newsletters are not distributed to everyone who might need that information. WCC sends newsletters to anyone who asks for them; but each reader must ask to be put on the mailing list and must renew that request yearly.
To make information available as soon as it is news, we decided to write an on-line bulletin board system. The bulletin board has the advantages of providing more up-to-date information quickly and at any time.
Although the paper describes our bulletin board, it doesn't mention how well it has been received. The presentation will include a discussion of our users' experience with this on-line news system.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- EBB and flow: An electronic bulletin board
- Creators
- Dave EichmannDiana Harris
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on user services, pp.203-207
- Series
- SIGUCCS '81
- DOI
- 10.1145/800079.802589
- Publisher
- ACM
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/11/1981
- Academic Unit
- School of Library and Information Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984003003602771
Metrics
11 Record Views