Going retro
Dec. 12th, 2009 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pbrayWent to the library this afternoon to pick up reference books for current project. My normal tendency is to buy whatever I need, but in this case the sources that everyone was recommending were out of print with used copies being prohibitively expensive...
and then the lightbulb dawned. Sure enough, Broome County Public Library had copies of the two I really wanted to read, plus a third that looked interesting.
I miss the days when they used to stamp the front of a book with the due date, so you could see how often it had circulated. From the tags in front, I could see both books had been taken out in the early 90s, but no clue whether or not they've circulated since then. But now they're mine, all mine.
Until January 2nd, that is.
and then the lightbulb dawned. Sure enough, Broome County Public Library had copies of the two I really wanted to read, plus a third that looked interesting.
I miss the days when they used to stamp the front of a book with the due date, so you could see how often it had circulated. From the tags in front, I could see both books had been taken out in the early 90s, but no clue whether or not they've circulated since then. But now they're mine, all mine.
Until January 2nd, that is.
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