I’ll be visiting the Library of Congress next week for one day. Let me know here if there’s anything in particular you might want me to look at or scan there.
To keep this manageable, I’ll only accept requests that appear difficult to obtain elsewhere. If it looks like you can get what you want via interlibrary loan, try that rather than asking me. If you are not affiliated with a university then I’d recommend talking to a librarian at a public library about this. Seems many public libraries will do interlibrary loan for free or a fee.
Likely I’ll make a second trip to the Library of Congress in August, too.
Visited the Library of Congress this past Wednesday. I’ll be going to the Library of Congress several times this summer, so reply to one of my comments here if you want anything in particular at the Library of Congress.
It was a fairly productive day, as I think I’ve found a good strategy for avoiding the phone book people at the scanner. For some reason, there’s often a ton of people who do nothing other than look at old phone books. I assume this is for some sort of private investigator business or something along those lines. I never asked. Anyway, they tend to procrastinate and use the one overhead scanner starting around 2 to 3 pm, so it’s best to do as much book scanning before them. My current strategy is to do my book scanning before 2 and then switch to microfilm, as I rarely ever see anyone using the microfilm viewers or scanners.
I’ll be visiting the Library of Congress next week for one day. Let me know here if there’s anything in particular you might want me to look at or scan there.
To keep this manageable, I’ll only accept requests that appear difficult to obtain elsewhere. If it looks like you can get what you want via interlibrary loan, try that rather than asking me. If you are not affiliated with a university then I’d recommend talking to a librarian at a public library about this. Seems many public libraries will do interlibrary loan for free or a fee.
Likely I’ll make a second trip to the Library of Congress in August, too.
Visited the Library of Congress this past Wednesday. I’ll be going to the Library of Congress several times this summer, so reply to one of my comments here if you want anything in particular at the Library of Congress.
It was a fairly productive day, as I think I’ve found a good strategy for avoiding the phone book people at the scanner. For some reason, there’s often a ton of people who do nothing other than look at old phone books. I assume this is for some sort of private investigator business or something along those lines. I never asked. Anyway, they tend to procrastinate and use the one overhead scanner starting around 2 to 3 pm, so it’s best to do as much book scanning before them. My current strategy is to do my book scanning before 2 and then switch to microfilm, as I rarely ever see anyone using the microfilm viewers or scanners.