About the APIS Site :
This is an extensively interlinked archive of individual issues of the APIS--Apicultural Information and Issues monthly newsletter, ISSN 0089-3764, published by the Florida Cooperative Extension Service,
Department of Entomology and
Nematology, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) at the University of
Florida from 1984 until 2001. It is organized in a number of ways to facilitate
finding information.
History of the Beekeeping Extension newsletter at The
University of Florida
The first beekeeping specialist in the Florida Cooperative Extension Service was John D.
Haynie. "Honey Haynie" began a newsletter called Hum of the
Hive in the 1950s. It was regularly published until his
retirement in 1971. Mr. Haynie also began the Florida Beekeepers Institute in 1957. Hum of the Hive was taken up by Dr. Danny R. Minnick in
September 1971. His "last issue" was written in August of 1972.
At that time, 1,800 hundred persons subscribed. Thereafter, Dr.
Freddie Johnson
sporadically authored the newsletter along with Frank Robinson,
until July 1981. The following month's issue was written by Dr. Malcolm T. Sanford, the
author, who retired and became "Professor Emeritus," in 2001.
In February 1983, APIS-Apicultural Information and
Issues evolved from Hum of the Hive, taking on a
different format with an upgraded logo. The first electronic issue
came out in February 1984 on BITNET. Since then, APIS has
been available worldwide via the INTERNET and World Wide Web. Parts
of it have been
archived across the Web on different sites. In 1989, the author published issues
from Italy, in 1992, from Egypt, and
a special collection of letters from France in 1997.
In 1994, the story of APIS was featured in the FARNET
publication, 51 Reasons: How We Use the Internet and What it
Says About the Information Superhighway, the lobbying document used to educate the U.S. Congress about the value of the National Information Infrastructure (NII). This formally
recognized the newsletter as a pioneer on the Internet,
the first information organ of its kind available on World-Wide
Web.
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