At last summer’s ERS meeting in Birmingham, the membership discussed a number
of issues related to the ERECS-L mailing list. Concerns were expressed about the low traffic and
relative difficulty in establishing and maintaining meaningful discussion on the list. Some of
those present at the meeting also expressed interest in increased communications options and
functionality, including document sharing, the ability to establish ad hoc lists related to
particular issues, and the ability to send particular announcements to ERS members only
(the discussion can be found in section 6.3.1 of the ERS meeting minutes, available online at
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups
/ers/2002mtg.asp). A group was established to investigate these issues and various software
options and report the findings back to the membership.
As part of that work, Christine Di Bella and Rose Roberto , with assistance
from Kevin Glick, Rosemary Pleva Flynn, Jean Marie Deken and Brian Doyle, have created a brief
online survey to assess experience and interest in using various online communication tools.
The survey is now available on the ERS website (
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ers). Please take several minutes to take the survey and
offer your thoughts on communication options for discussing electronic records issues. The survey
results will be reported at the ERS meeting in Los Angeles in August. If you have questions about
the survey or the project, please contact Christine
(cdibella@umich.edu) or Rose (rose@mygarden.com).
Thank you in advance for your feedback.
