Biblio-Tech Topics
by Barbara Kelly, Assistant Director

We’re very excited to introduce a new version of Fine Print! You can now receive your copy via email, either in addition to or instead of through the US Mail. Staff has been working hard for several months to fine tune a version of the newsletter that we can send to you via email. It will consist of a single graphic page that you will be able to open with any email client that can read HTML. The page will contain headlines and summaries of the main stories in each issue, and have live links to the complete stories in the online version of Fine Print on the Library’s website.

We will be sending this first email issue to everyone in our Fine Print mailing list that we have an email address for. We’ll also send out the print edition to all of our regular subscribers. If you don’t get the email version, you can sign up to start receiving future editions on our web site at http://www.apl.org/fp/ . If you do get it, and don’t want to receive future editions, you can also use this page to remove yourself from the mailing list. After this first issue, we will remove you from our print mailing list if you are on the email list, unless you specifically contact us and tell us that you want to receive both versions.

We’ve tested the product with a small group of people using a variety of email systems. But we can’t be absolutely positive that it will work for everyone every time. If you have problems receiving the newsletter, if the links don’t work, or if you don’t think it is displaying properly, you’ll find a list of fixes for common problems on the website at http://www.apl.org/fp/fphelp.html . If that doesn’t help, give me a call at 832-6168 during library business hours, or send me email at bkelly@apl.org.

We really hope that more and more people will sign up to receive the newsletter this way. Postage and printing costs continue to rise, making it harder for us to send out the paper copies. This new technology will allow us to reach more people for less cost. And there are real advantages to the electronic version, since it has live links to more information about happenings at the Library. We hope you like it.