"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."