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October 16, 2005
A day on campus
I went up to Columbia to use their libraries today to do some research for my thesis. I never went to Columbia but I used to use its libraries fairly regularly because the one at my university sucks. The last time I did so, however, was probably four years ago so I was pretty clueless on where certain things were. My memories of going there and of attending college though made me feel really old. I hadn't thought about checking out things from the reserve desk for class assignments since, probably when I had actually done it but just the fact that my memories of that were so ancient made me shudder. I also wanted to get a journal article so I had looked up the call number of the journal when the reference desk person pointed out to me that the journal was available online through their system. I couldn't believe it--I used to spend hours searching for and copying articles from bound journals, now all these journal articles can be obtained with a few clicks of a computer. University students have it so easy these days..at the same time, I couldn't imagine being one now.
Posted by Jennifer at October 16, 2005 09:22 PM
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I don't know; I don't think we have it necessarily "easy" nowadays. Just as information is easier to access, so does its proliferation. Online databases of scholarly journals, I find, are endless pits of information to scour and research. Information overload, perhaps?
Posted by: James at October 21, 2005 08:15 PM