ABSTRACT
This issue’s column on Superconductivity has had an interesting history. It started out as a class project in a course entitled “Library materials and Information Services in Science and Technology” at the University of Rhode Island. On hearing of it, I asked for a copy and was treated to three editions as events, including the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics for Superconductivity in 1987, forced revisions. I feel that the final product will be useful for some time to come, particularly for its outline of the historical development of the field. I am also glad to aid in the professional development of the two new librarian coauthors. I think that the library and information science communities have a lesson to learn from law school reviews. In those publications, faculty oversee the rather exhaustive survey papers of law students. Not only are the articles useful educational exercises for the student’s own training, they are highly cited in legal briefs in actual cases. Can we learn from the energetic efforts of our students? I invite further submissions from this pool of talent.
