IASL-LINK

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See also Handbook of Organization: Guidelines for IASL-LINK

Contact the IASL-LINK Manager, Peter Genco
Peter Genco

What is IASL-LINK?

IASL-LINK is a closed listserv/group for members of the Association (that is, its membership is restricted to the membership of the Association), and as such, is one of the benefits of membership. IASL-LINK is for communication between members of the Association throughout the world, and for the distribution of announcements and links to discussion papers, articles, news, information about projects, and information from IASL conferences and meetings. It supports the aims and objectives of the Association by providing a communications link and a means of disseminating information. It is not intended to replace other activities of the Association, like the IASL Newsletter, but rather to add another dimension to the Association's communications channels.

IASL-LINK is a group on Yahoo! Groups. IASL-LINK messages can be read as email, or read on the IASL-LINK page on the Yahoo! Groups Web site. All messages remain at the Yahoo! Groups website for reference (unless a message is deleted by the original sender or the Group moderator). Our Yahoo! Group is searchable on the Yahoo! Groups site.

At present, IASL-LINK has more than 300 members, and we have people on the system from every continent except Antarctica. Countries represented include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Micronesia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the West Bank/Palestine.

Messages can be sent to IASL-LINK by anyone who is a member. From time to time, messages will be posted to IASL-LINK for other people, too -- for example, from other professional listservs or groups in the field of education or librarianship or from other professional associations in school librarianship and related fields. Members of the Board of IASL, the Newsletter Editor, and the Chairpersons of IASL Committees are able to use IASL-LINK to provide you with information about any new developments.

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Joining and Participating

Two Levels of Participation

  1. Participation by email. IASL members can use IASL-LINK as a listserv and participate by sending and receiving the email messages. New members of IASL will be automatically added to IASL-LINK when they join the association. Other members will be added as requested. To be added to IASL-LINK, send an email message to the following email address (with nothing in the body of the message):

    2. IASL-LINK-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

    The moderators of IASL-LINK will receive a message to add you to IASL-LINK. Once your membership in IASL is verified, you will be added to IASL-LINK. This process is very quick, usually within a day. Using IASL-LINK in this manner will allow you access to the listserv capabilities of the Yahoo! Group, but not the variety of other features offered be Yahoo!

    To communicate with everyone on IASL-LINK, send an email message to:

    IASL-LINK@yahoogroups.com

    Make sure that you use a subject line that is descriptive because this subject will not only appear on your message but also on links to the stored message on the Yahoo! Groups site. Your message will be sent automatically to all of the members of the listserv, usually within minutes.

    If you want to respond to a message that was sent to IASL-LINK by someone else, use the REPLY function of your electronic mail software in the usual way, and the reply will go just to the person who sent the message to IASL-LINK. Sometimes it might be more appropriate to reply to the whole group, in which case, address your reply to IASL-LINK@yahoogroups.com

    Please note that messages with attachments should not be posted to IASL-LINK. One of our goals is to reduce or eliminate spam and viruses. The group has been set so that no messages containing attachments will be transferred through the group. Therefore NEVER open any IASL-LINK message that contains an attachment. Documents and other files can be stored at the group Web page at Yahoo! Groups, but may not be transmitted. Directions follow explaining how to join Yahoo! and link yourself to the group called IASL-LINK so that you can use these features.

  2. Become a member of Yahoo! and have full access to the Yahoo! Groups section. This allows for the listserv (email) capabilities, and also offers other features such as file sharing, opinion polls, photo galleries, bookmarks, archived and indexed messages, and a few things we are still learning about!

    3. If you wish to fully utilize all the capabilities of the Yahoo! Group IASL-LINK has to offer, you must become a Yahoo! member by registering, verifying, and activating your email address with Yahoo! You must use the email address on file with IASL-LINK or the one you plan to use when joining IASL-LINK.

    IASL-LINK is located at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IASL-LINK/

    Follow this link to IASL-LINK at Yahoo! Groups. Assuming you are NOT already a member of Yahoo!, you will need to click the link "Join this Group" -- it will lead you to a new window where you will need to click on "Sign up now" The initial process is a bit cumbersome ... so please be patient! We recommend that you have these instructions available and use them as a guide when joining.

    • You will need to select a Yahoo! ID and a password. This can be whatever you desire. You will also set up a security question and answer.
    • One very "tricky" point on this page is in the box labeled "Alternative Email" -- you MUST enter the email you use or wish to use for IASL-LINK. The concept of "Alternative Email" means alternative to Yahoo! email ... in other words, you regular email address. Yahoo! refers to this as "alternative" to your options of having a free web-based email at Yahoo!
    • Another point of information: IF you check the Interests boxes near the bottom, you will get unsolicited emails. We highly recommend that you do not check those boxes!
    • Last step on this page is a Word Verification ... follow the directions.
    • You will need to submit the form and you will then you will receive a Welcome message; it will welcome you by whatever Yahoo! ID you selected.
    • The next step is to Verify your email. Yahoo! will send an email to the email address you listed in the "Alternative Email" box. The email you receive will have a code in it. You need that code to complete the Verify page.
    • The final step is to click on "Activate your membership" -- This will link your selected Yahoo! ID and your Verified email address to IASL-LINK and give you all the capabilities the Group has to offer.

    This may seem complex and tedious .... but it is well worth the effort in the long run! Give it a try ... We do recommend do this when you can go through all the steps in one sitting. If all goes well, it should take about 10-15 minutes maximum.

    If you follow this link to IASL-LINK at Yahoo! Groups and you are already a member of Yahoo! you should simply click the link "Sign in to Yahoo!" and follow the procedures. It will require that you verify your email and link it to this group.

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Leaving IASL-LINK

If you want to leave IASL-LINK, then send an email message to the listserv computer at

IASL-LINK-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

Nothing should appear in the subject line or the body of the message.

Note that this message is sent to the administration address, not to the address that you use to send messages to IASL-LINK for distribution to all members.

Last Updated 8 February 2003 (LAC)