is such a brilliant tool for school librarians. How did the idea come about way back in 1992?
I was on other listservs and discussion groups for college librarians and K–12 teachers and just reading what they had to say. If I’d see a librarian had posted from another school, I’d just capture their address. Pretty soon, if I found new resources, I would share them with those folks. Eventually, I had 40 or 50 people. At the same time, I started doing presentations at conferences about the Internet. And we got a group of people together. We started joking around and calling ourselves the Leading Edge Librarians. Mike Eisenberg, who was at Syracuse University at that time, had a similar group of email addresses from people he knew from various connections from ALA [American Library Association] and other places. His university had the capability of setting up a listserv, and he had heard about my list of people from a librarian in the Northeast. Did you know Mike Eisenberg? I had never even heard of him before. I was just sitting around on a Monday after school let out, checking my
