Please help SLJ: Milestones in Library Tech

[Greg Notess]

Actually, my Internet column On the Nets started in ONLINE a few months
before Lee's. The first one was in ONLINE in March of 1993 and the first
one in DATABASE was in April 1993.

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At 07:30 AM 10/7/99 -0700, "GraceAnne A. DeCandido" <ladyhawk at well.com>
 wrote:
>I am resending this message, as it seems to have been lost in 
>cyberspace:
>
>This is probably not what Walter Minkel as SLJ is looking for: nevertheless, 
>it is a series of landmarks I take particular pride in. The late, 
>lamented _Wilson Library Bulletin_ was the first library 
>magazine to include authors' email addresses as a regular 
>feature (late 1993); the first to have a column written about 
>the Internet, called _The Internet Cafe_  and written by Lee 
>Ratzan (begun May 1993); and the first to have a column of 
>comments taken off listserves (with permission) called 
>_Offline_  edited by Alan Mahony (begun Feb 1994). 
>I was Editor at WLB from Jan 1993 until the magazine was 
>killed by HWWilson in June 1995.
>
>Both _Library Journal_ and _School Library Journal_  got 
>their first email addresses from class.org, under my insistent 
>prodding, when I was executive editor, news & features, at 
>SLJ in 1992.