[Web4lib] First library gophers?

[Richard Wiggins]

Some of the very early activity related to Gopher and libraries concerned
Peter Scott and his database of library catalogs.  A colleague at Michigan
State took Peter's catalogs corpus and Gopherized it -- not sure if that was
the first effort.

Sue Davidsen at U Michigan and colleagues launched Go M-Link early on, led
to other pioneering efforts.  The Yahoo guys contacted her not much later
proposing to catalog the Internet.   Get hold of Sue to hear the tale.

I wrote a piece summarizing Gopher's role in 1992 for PACS... Not a
chronology per se but it might have some dates.
http://www.infomotions.com/serials/pacsr/pr-v4n02-wiggins.txt

/rich

On 7/10/06, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to pinpoint when the first library gophers became available. I
> know gopher launched in the spring of 1991; I'm trying to construct a
> reasonable chronology for some popular library services. I looked at
> PACS-L... what a blast through the past... but really couldn't get a good
> feel for the answer.
>
> K. G. Schneider
> kgs at bluehighways.com
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