I just wanted to briefly talk about the Listserv. This is a webbased communication tool that I feel is incredibly helpful and practical to librarians working in all areas of librarianship. In my course of study in the School Library program, we were asked to sign up for 3 Listservs. This was in our School Libraries course and i’ve had about one year or so of experience with these Listservs. Since then I’ve become familiar with a couple other ones as well. I’ve found them to be an enormously helpful way to communicate with a large group of people and find answers to questions, share concerns, share successes, advertise job opportunities, advertise events, help patrons, and many more uses. I’ve gotten so many helpful ideas, and helpful advise from reading these Listserv posts. As a student, I’ve pretty much only been reading what other people have been posting, but i feel that I’ve gleaned so much from just reading. Fom a practical standpoint, It’s a pretty powerful tool that can allow anyone who has a question, or any information need, to communicate with a targeted group of related professionals, and know that they will get a high response to their inquiry. I’ve seen Listservs related to School, Academic, and Public libraries, as well as Music Libraries. The questions have ranged from readers advisory, information literacy, grants, copyright, information instruction, web 2.0, etc…It’s invaluable to be able to get information from collegues who have been through similar situations or worked on similar projects. I feel that the Listserv is a great example of how Librarians and other professionals can use an internet based service as a vital tool for communication between themselves and their collegues