[WEB4LIB] Re: "Talking About Public Access: PACS-L's First De

Thomas Dowling tdowling at ohiolink.edu
Wed Apr 5 16:19:06 EDT 2000


>
> PACS-L is the first list I subscribed to way back in 1989.  The
discussions
> there helped shape my career and served as an inspiration to me.  That
list
> was also where the idea of WEB4Lib originated in a discussion between
Roy
> Tennant, myself and others about needed a place focused on the then new
> World Wide Web.
>

Which, lest we forget, was modelled after the very successful Go4Lib list
out of UC-Santa Barbara, just as my own Libweb was humbly modelled after
Steve Watkins' Library Gopher Servers list on the UC-Santa Cruz InfoSlug
gopher.

Thomas ("Plus ca change") Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu




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