Self-Reflection of Virtuality in a Professional Association: A Compact Description of Mailing List Data

Lastly we have an article from our very own world. IASSIST maintains a very active list-server. The data – e.g. mails – from that list-server was collected some years ago and some categorization was performed on that collection. The article “Self Reflection of Virtuality in a Professional Association: a Compact Description of Mailing List Data” is a description of the IASSIST organization moving in the direction of a virtual community. We try to offer an answer to the jesting question: “Is there IASSIST life between IASSIST conferences?”. The ongoing IASSIST list-server, weblog and periodic IASSIST Quarterly should be a positive answer to that matter. The investigation was carried out by Repke de Vries, Department of Public Services at The Royal Library of the Netherlands, and myself.