Chronicle of Higher Education "History" Site

[Sloan, Bernie]

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a history section that offers
"selected stories from past issues of The Chronicle." This section
is free (i.e., you don't have to be a Chronicle subscriber). You can
access it at: http://chronicle.com/free/history/. The site has gif images
of the front pages of the Chronicle from selected issues, as well as the
full text of selected feature articles from those front pages.

There are at least a couple of feature articles that might be of 
interest to folks interested in the history of the Internet and/or library 
and information science. To those of us who have been on the scene
for awhile, the following features might reinforce the belief that nothing 
is new under the sun.   :-)

>From eleven years ago:

http://chronicle.com/free/v34/i31/31a00104.htm  

"E-Mail' Technology Has Boomed, but Manners of Its Users Fall 
Short of Perfection." This is an early article about Netiquette. It's
sort of a trip down memory lane for those of us who started out on
e-mail as BITNET users (and of course I include myself in this group).

>From twenty seven years ago:

http://chronicle.com/free/v06/i22/22a00103.htm

"Term Papers for Sale: A Consumer's Test." This one is interesting 
in light of all the recent stories about students buying term papers over 
the Internet. Library practitioners and faculty should realize that this is
nothing new......the Internet has just made it easier.

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning & Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone: (217) 333-4895  
Fax: (217) 333-6355
Email: bernies at uillinois.edu