Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd. is making its August 2005 issue of Interlending and Document Supply available for free downloading until the end of the month. It is a special issue that celebrates the contributions to the field of librarianship by Maurice B. Line, former Director General of the British Library and a previous editor of the magazine. Line started in 1950 as a trainee at the Bodlean Library in Oxford, UK. He also taught at both Sheffield University’s Department of Information Science and Loughborough University’s Department of Information and Library Studies. He’s still interested in librarianship — I’ve seen him at the Online Information conference in London in recent years. The issue features articles by Line as well as by others in the field. Guest editors are Mike McGrath and Stella Pilling.

Some things are just infuriating to me. I stumbled over a posting on The How-To Blog on “How to Write a Last-Minute Paper.” Now I do realize that students to tend towards procrastination when it comes to writing papers and I appreciate that this post stresses the importance of research before settling down to an all-nighter devoted to writing the paper. But, really, this sentence just makes me fume. “Search engines like Google.com can locate any scholarly web pages on the subject, and many schools provide off-campus access to scholarly article databases such as Ebsco.” OK, nice plug for EBSCOhost, but any scholarly article through Google? I think not.

Fortune Magazine has an article it’s titled “An Oral History of Netscape” . It mentions August 9, 1995 as the day the company went public. That got me wondering when ONLINE noticed Netscape. We ran 21 articles in 1995 that mentioned Netscape. The March/April 1995 issue had a cover story on “Cyberspace: Enter the World’s Wide Web with Mosaic” and also featured “A Web Browser Comparison.” Our first mention of Mosaic was in 1993. Want to read these? You can find them via ITI’s InfoCentral.