How VINE germinated Available to Purchase

Mary Overton, then based at Southampton University Library, was the creator and first editor of VINE, and she carefully nurtured it through issues 1 to 7. On leaving Southampton she escaped to the Welsh hillside where she runs a farm. However, if she thought she had seen the last of VINE on leaving the Information Officer post, she was wrong — several years later she was asked to step in and carry VINE through issues 35 to 38 while a new editor was recruited. In this piece Mary looks back at how VINE came into being.