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The E-Sylum: Volume 2, Number 26, June 27, 1999, Article 2
COIN WORLD PROFILE
Subscriber William T.Gibbs, News Editor for Coin World,
published a nice article on The E-Sylum in the July 5, 1999
issue, which hit the streets this week (page 88). To quote
the first few paragraphs:"It might seem unusual that an organization of collectors
who love the feel and smell of old books would sponsor
a weekly online journal, but is not at all out of the ordinary
for the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.NBS does embrace the traditional publishing field. It
publishes The Asylum, a traditional magazine featuring
articles on numismatic books, auction catalogs and other
forms of numismatic literature.However it also embraces the World Wide Web and the
Internet by publishing a weekly online journal, The E-Sylum.Online subscribers subscribe to The E-Sylum, which arrives
weekly (every Sunday) in their e-mail. Each online issue
features research tips, requests for research help, comments
from subscribers and other useful information."As examples of The E-Sylum's content and usefulness, the
article mentions David Cassel's pattern request, Russ Logan's
assistance in finding the book on Patriotic Civil War envelopes
for Pete Smith, and finally, our discussion on John Leonard
Riddell. "the help provided from the request May 2 has proven
invaluable in researching the feature which will be published
later this year in Coin World.The immediacy of the Internet and World Wide Web appears
to be one of the strongest benefits of this online journal.
Members can communicate with each other instantaneously via
e-mail."Finally, the article lists the address of our web site and that
of Dave Hirt, our Secretary-Treasurer. Thanks to Mr. Gibbs
and Coin World, we've gotten some marvelous publicity. Let's
hope the article attracts some more good subscribers.- 1999-06-27
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