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YOUNG NUMISMATIST PUBLICATION REVIVEDBen Keele writes: "Some young collectors, including myself, are trying to get the Young Numismatists of America started up again. The organization is just over ten years old, but most of the time it has been dormant. Our official publication is the third generation of YNA publishing. First was the "YN Digest," then "YNA News," and finally "The Young Numismatist." Perhaps some readers know of other publications that have undergone frequent changes. Speaking of serial numbering, should we start "The Young Numismatist" at number one or count the previous publications that preceded it? Also included is an essay I wrote for "The Young Numismatist" on numismatic publishing. Feel free to reprint any excerpts you think the readers might find interesting. Keep up the great work!" A section of Ben's article is devoted to electronic publications like ours: "Numismatic publishing has become even easier as the Internet has opened up new avenues of communication. Electronic publications, like the Numismatic Bibliomania Society's "E-Sylum" and the American Numismatic Association's "Your Newsletter", have thrived in this age of online numismatics. Electronic periodicals are just as effective as their print counterparts and are extremely economical since they require no paper. Email transmission is instantaneous, allowing information to be spread out as soon as it is ready. The only major disadvantages of e-publications are the fact that not as many numismatists are computer-literate as those that can read magazines and that files on computers can be destroyed more easily than paper documents. While many copies of a journal would have to be incinerated to completely annihilate the information, a click of a mouse can trash a file and give the collective knowledge of mankind an instant case of amnesia."Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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