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.
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.