EAD Electronic List Subscribers: In response to great demand for a useful archive of posting made to the list, the Library of Congress has mounted a new official archive of EAD messages going back as far as we could. The EAD list was first made available in November 1995. We have postings going back almost to the beginning (I think a few are certainly missing, but there's plenty to look it if you feel so inclined.) The EAD list archive gives you three ways to sort messages: by date of posting, author, and subject (as taken from the SUBJECT line of the message itself). Since the subject and author sorts are dependent on what came with the posting, these are not always very useful, but it is better than nothing. I hope by using the archive people will be stimulated to give their postings more meaningful SUBJECT information. It would certainly facilitate retrieval later if not interpretation in the first place. (I love the postings with the subject "OUT OF THE OFFICE"!) Any comments on the new archive are welcome. I plan to convey my personal thanks to my hard-working LC colleague Tom Littlejohn who took care of setting up the archive and pulling together the old postings into the new Web site. Since this is a list for archivists, it seems only fitting that we have a decent archive! Randy Barry ***************************************************************** * Randall Keigan Barry LL * * Senior MARC Standards Specialist LLL * * U.S. Library of Congress LLL * * Network Development and MARC Standards Office LLL CCCCC * * 101 Independence Avenue, S.E. LLL CCC CCC * * Washington, DC 20540-4102 U.S.A. LLL CCC * * TEL: +1-202-707-5118 LLLLLLLLLL * * FAX: +1-202-707-0115 CCC CCC * * NET: [log in to unmask] CCCCC * ***************************************************************** * NOTE: The ideas and opinions expressed in this communication * * are personal and do not necessarily reflect the position of * * the Library of Congress or any other U.S. government agency. * *****************************************************************