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Library Staff in Subject Areas

AM-STUDIES-LON  
This list is to enable communication between members of a new academic/librarian committee for American Studies in London.

APAC  
The APAC list facilitates discussion and information exchange among people working in performing arts collections and related research fields. The list provides a forum for queries and for disseminating news about performing arts collections primarily in the UK. Further information and resources can be found on our website: www.performingartscollections.org.uk

CLIN-LIB  
The UK Clinical Librarian mailing list is used for the discussion of issues and dissemination of information relating to Clinical Librarians and those with similar roles.

CPD25-NEWS  
This cpd25 Jisc list will update M25 members and other interested parties on forthcoming events, visits and cpd25 news.

CRESTLIBS  
A group for library directors or senior library staff who are members of CREST or who work for small institutions which are scaling up their research function.

EBHL  
The European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Group (EBHL) is an association to promote and facilitate co-operation and communication between those working in botanical and horticultural libraries, archives and related institutions in Europe. Europe is interpreted in the widest sense to include countries both within and outside the European Union (EU)

FE-COPYRIGHT  
An open list for CLA licensees in Further Education to discuss how they make the most of their FE Licence and share tips, ideas and best practice for using resources and published content.

GEO-LIBS  
Library services supporting higher education and research in the geological sciences.

GSLG  
Forum for members of the German Studies Library Group, both librarians and academics. The Group is concerned with provision of high quality library services in the field of German studies and seeks to enhance services by co-operative projects and good communication between members.

HEALER  
This list has been retained 12/03/2021 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list Supporting research development in health librarianship

LIBRARYLABS  
International community of existing and planned GLAM Labs.

LIHNN  
To facilitate collaboration between librarians within the healthcare sector in the North West of England and enable sharing of resources: to provide a forum for discussion on topics related to healthcare librarianship at a local level. The list is open to all professionally concerned with health services libraries in the North West area but is conditional,where available, on members makingtheir journal collections accessible through the LIHNN union catalogue scheme.

LIS-ACCESS-INCLUSION-ARTS  
This list is for librarians in HE and other Arts organisations to discuss best practice and share experience of supporting all users to use library spaces and resources.

LIS-ALLCU  
This list is used by the Association of Librarians in Landbased Colleges and Universities to enable discussions to take place relevant to those working (or related) to the sector.

LIS-ANZLAG  
Discussion list for librarians and archivists with Australian and New Zealand related collections

LIS-ARTS-HUMANITIES  
This list enables information professionals, who support research, learning and teaching in the Arts and Humanities, to discuss and exchange information about the latest developments in the field.

LIS-CELTIC  
Announcements and discussions relevant to libraries with collections in the Celtic languages (Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Breton, Cornish, and Manx).

LIS-CHILLIT  
This list is for information exchange and discussion amongst librarians working with children's literature, academic research and collections.

LIS-CLICLIBRARIES  
CLIC (Cardiff Libraries in Co-operation) brings together libraries who provide for the people who live, work and study in Cardiff. CLIC staff development group provides collaboration through staff development events.

LIS-EDUC  
List for discussion of the provision of information to those involved in educational research, schools and college library provision,teacher training and the study of education. The list is occasionally closed to the public - if so, and you want to join, please mail one of the list owners.

LIS-EDUCATION-INDEX  
This list is used by members of the Education databases User group as a forum for discussion and dialogue between the publishers of the Index, its users, and the providers of the platforms on which it operates.

LIS-FAKENEWS  
This list is intended to enable sharing of programmes, best practice, and resources used by information professionals to educate and enable their service users to navigate Fake News in the current information environment.

LIS-HEALTHYORKHUM  
A forum for discussion for healthcare librarians based in Yorkshire and the Humber.

LIS-HEBRAICA-LIBS  
For UK librarians in educational institutions with Hebraica collections to discuss matters of mutual concern such as collection development, cataloguing and meetings.

LIS-HISTORYRESEARCHLIBS  
A discussion list for all with an interest or involvement in history research collections, including librarians, archivists, museum staff and others.

LIS-LIBHIST  
lis-libhist aims to unite a diverse group of LIS professionals and others with a common interest in library and book history.

LIS-LITERATURE  
The aim of this list is create a community for information professionals who support research and teaching in the field of literature, enabling the sharing, discussion and exchange of ideas and information.

LIS-LOCSCOT  
This list is used by members of LocScot (Scottish branch of the CILIP Local Studies Group) to discuss professional/work related matters. <HTML> This list is used by members of LocScot (Scottish branch of the CILIP Local Studies Group) to discuss professional/work related matters. </HTML>

LIS-MAPS  
Lis-maps is a forum for discussing news, ideas, issues, policies and practices related to map & spatial data librarianship. Topics can be broad ranging including: acquisition; cataloguing; use; information retrieval; management of metadata; relationship to GIS & RS; collaborative work; conservation.

LIS-MEDICAL  
LIS-MEDICAL is an open discussion list for members of the UK health and medical library community and other interested information workers. The list was created by, and is maintained by, the University Health & Medical Librarians Group (UHMLG). The University Health & Medical Librarians Group represents academic librarians who support undergraduate and postgraduate health and medical education in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Membership is open to all those who have relevant subject responsibility or whose major responsibility is for a site library in a university or relevant professional body. Membership is free and grants discounted attendance at our Spring Forum, plus eligibility to attend our Summer Conference. To join UHMLG, please check eligibility use the form on our membership page: http://www.uhmlg.ac.uk/membership

LIS-MEDJOURNAL-DUPLICATES  
To facilitate journal exchange between UK Health libraries, by allowing librarians to post lists of journal duplicates and wants.

LIS-MELCOM-UK  
Mailing list for the purpose of circulating meeting details and minutes, also any other business of common concern on library matters

LIS-MIDDLE-EAST  
The list deals with concerns common to librarians, archivists and academics with responsibility for or and interest in Middle Eastern and Islamic collections and bibliography.

LIS-NHS  
LIS-NHS is an email forum for discussing developments and issues specific to the provision of library and information services within UK National Health Service and affiliated academic libraries.

LIS-RAREBOOKS  
Rare books librarians have special requirements for standards and systems. This list will discuss how these requirements are being met.

LIS-SCI-MED-EMPIRE  
SCIENCE MEDICINE EMPIRE is an email forum for those interested in the history of the interactions of science and medicine with colonial expansion (1500- the present. SME is part of the Society for the Social History of Medicine.

LIS-SCITECH  
Lis-scitech is the forum for science and technology librarians in all types of organisation to discuss common problems, swap experience, pose questions and generally work more closely. The emphasis is on UK practice.

LIS-SCOLMA  
The SCOLMA list is intended to facilitate discussion of library, archive and other information support for African Studies, including but not restricted to announcement of meetings, assisting and promoting resource sharing and collaboration, and annuncements of new print and electronic resources

LIS-SOCIALSCIENCE  
A list set up to discuss library matters of mutual interest, share news and experience, and to exchange information. Managed by Heather Dawson on behalf of the UK social science community. h.dawson@lse.ac.uk

LIS-SRS  
For those involved either in doing or teaching others to do searches for systematic reviews to share experiences and help each other

LIS-TEACHEREDUCATIONLIBRARIAN  
This list is used to share best practice between Education Librarians working in Further and Higher Education, who have a School Experience or Teaching Practice Collection and support School Teachers.

LONDONSATELLITE  
A forum for library professionals of satellite campuses (in London) to share good practice and talk about any challenges faced, particularly that could be different from a main campus.

LRC-SOUTH  
This list will provide LRC staff in the south the opportunity to share good practice/problems and also inform them of events/forums

LTAN  
A discussion list for those involved in archives relating to land transport. This is a mutual support network for archive creators, custodians and users. #The network deals with research resources in the following areas. #Design, making and use of vehicles; associated infrastructure / people.

MEDIALIB  
Medialibs list is a discussion forum for Media Librarians and Information Professionals who have a responsibility for media studies, media production, broadcasting. Keywords: Media; Librarians; Higher Education;

MLAG  
Mailing list for the MLAG members to share information about meetings, conferences and events and to discuss matters of common interest.

MUSIC-FROM-STATIONERS-HALL  
AHRC-funded research network studying music claimed from Stationers' Hall in 18th and early 19th centuries under legal deposit.

NULJ  
List to provide a single point of communicaiton for all members of the NULJ mutual document supply scheme

NUN92  
This list will service librarians and information professionals working in London Universities established after 1992.

OAGOODPRACTICE  
A list for sharing experiences and good practice in open access implementation. Note - this list was originally set up to support the Open Access Good Practice project.

OJS-USERS  
This list is used by UK OJS (Open Journal Systems) users (or potential users) to share experiences and knowledge about supporting Open Access journal publishing in Higher Education.

RDMTRAININGBENCHMARK  
This list is used as a communication channel for people who wish to develop a set of questions for RDM Training Benchmark

RELIGIOUS-ARCHIVES-GROUP  
The Religious Archives Group is an informal group of archivists, librarians and others. The main focus is the administration and care of religious archives in the UK. The Group holds an annual conference.

SCA-NORTHERN-IRELAND  
This list has been retained 30/07/20 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list The list is used by the Strategic Content Alliance to alert Northern Irish bodies of upcoming Strategic Content Alliance events in their area and about the work of the Strategic Content Alliance generally.

SCAIPR  
This list has been retained 30/07/20 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list The SCA (Strategic Content Alliance ) Intellectual Property Rights email list will be for discussing updates on events and news, promoting discussion on IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) issues and creating a community of practice in this area.

SCURLCOPYRIGHTLEGAL  
Sharing best practice on legal issues in the educational environment

SCURLLIAISONLIBRARIANS  
The SCURL Liaison Librarians' list will share good practice of their expertise

SCURLMOBILEDEVICES  
Map current provision of library services to mobile devices and collaborate on developments

SHOES  
The Shoe Network is an opportunity for like minded and interested people from higher education, other museums, research communities, artists and designers to share shoe related projects of any type and current research. Quite often such a diverse group find it difficult to link up and share information. This would be an invaluable tool to achieve this.

SPECIALCOLLECTIONSSURVEY  
This is a survey about how special collections are promoted and why. To gather feedback from special collections staff to support my MA dissertation research area.

SPECIALISTFECOLLEGE-LRC  
This list is for LRC / library staff working in specialist colleges for disabled students.

SVAG  
Discussion list for members of SVAG - Scottish Visual Arts Group

UDC-FORUM  
UDC-FORUM is a public list for those who are using Universal Decimal Classification or doing research and developement based on this system. It is an open list to discuss practical UDC questions regardless of the field of its application: libraries, museum, archives, Internet gateways or metadata.

UK-DANCE-LIBRARIANS  
As Dance librarians from specialist UK conservatoires and university departments we share issues related to the provision, management and circulation of our library resources and services, including user education and research support.

WESLINE  
This list enables collaboration between the individual Library Groups for West European Languages and will facilitate the dissemination of information and discussion of issues in West European studies in the UK

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