Good morning,
 
We hope you are looking forward to the CIG e-forum on getting started in cataloguing, taking place next week on Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th November.
 
Below is some information on how the CIG e-forum will work. 
 
1.       The CIG e-forum discussion takes place using email. When the moderators kick off discussion, you will receive an email message. To participate, you simply send messages to [log in to unmask] or respond to an email sent to you. There is no special software or interface that you have to use.
2.       If you’re busy and would like to receive fewer emails, you can change your settings to the digest format.  Go to http://jiscmail.ac.uk/CIG-E-FORUM, log in using the email and password that you received when you signed up for the list. Choose "Subscriber's Corner" (top left) and go into the settings. Choose the CIG-E-FORUM settings and change "subscription type" to "digest MIME format".
3.       If you want to participate fully in the CIG e-forum, but want to keep the messages separate from other email, you can probably set up a filter in your mail client, which will have CIG e-forum messages directly delivered to a folder of your choice, as opposed to your in-box (just don't forget to check the folder!), or flag the messages to alert you that they are e-forum messages.
4.       Finally, if you wish to unsubscribe completely, go to http://jiscmail.ac.uk/CIG-E-FORUM and you should see the option "unsubscribe" under Options across the top. The entire discussion will be available at the above url as well, if you'd prefer to read it later. You can always re-subscribe to the list at a later date if a future topic is of interest to you.
 
The co-moderators will be kicking things off at 10am on Tuesday so please don't post messages to the list before then. The e-forum mailing list is dedicated only to the e-forum discussions so ask that nobody posts any other messages (such as job adverts, calls for papers, etc).

The e-forum will be moderated by Esther Arens, Helen Doyle and Bernadette O'Reilly and we all four of us look forward to a lively discussion next week.
 
Celine Carty
E-forum coordinator