Libraries

[sharplittleteeth]

I never learnt how to use a library. Not properly. Not for serious research. I spent my University days in a dank computer lab. Research meant UNIX man pages. My only education in the Humanities came from roleplaying sourcebooks*.

* Exaggerated for comic effect.

So. I never mastered libraries.

This is a problem. I'm doing some writing. It involves History. I need to look things up - dates, maps, the price of bread, police procedures.

But help is at hand. The State Library run orientation tours. I'm booked into one for next week.

*excited*

Comments

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

wat?!

I was a library monitor in primary school, I know how to use index cards and Microfiche!

but really these days how hard is it to looks stuff up ? its all indexed on those computer things these days ;p

researching is the fun part. then the more fun part is browsing all the books and articles next to the ones you looked up

[mireille21.livejournal.com]

I had the opposite problem when I went back to do some learning through Open Universities. Just about all the subjects required a minimum number of references from the internet. I had no frickin' clue how to look up and identify reliable stuff and then how to reference them at the end of a paper. Just let me go down to the library and do things the old fashioned way, please!

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

That is gold. I have got to remember they do this.