I have to chuckle at your story about Bob. What a guy!!
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> I haven't done this in a while but formerly one downloaded an ILL form,
> infilled it, turned it in and waited until the item came in. They've
> treated them just the same as books.
>
> An interesting side story: In the VA State Library building on Capitol
> Square, archives and the reading rooms were on opposite sides of the
> building. There were microfilm printers on both sides. One fine day, I was
> in the Archives with Tom Brady doing some iron furnace research and we
> needed a roll of microfilm. It came to the desk. As it turned out, none of
> the Archives printers were working. So I asked Bob Clay if I could take the
> roll to the other side and print what I needed on one of the other
> machines. No, that was not possible as it couldn't leave the Archives. "How
> about if he walked me over and stood over me for the one page I needed?"
> No, he couldn't leave his desk." OK, trying to find a way out of the
> impasse: "How about Inter Library Loan? If I got it via ILL, could I then
> take it over?" Yes, that was possible.
>
> Standing there was one of the Archives regulars who stood up to her full
> 5'3" or so and boomed out: "Bob Clay, I've been coming in here every day
> for the last 20 years, paying for parking and only now do I find out I
> could have done all this by ILL. Why on earth didn't you tell me this
> before?" She was really in high dudgeon. Bob, in that inimitable and
> unflappable manner of his, paused for a significant period and calmly said:
> "Why, you never asked me." and said it with such a straight face. They
> don't make them like that anymore;)
>
> Lyle Browning
>
>
> On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:31 PM, Huffstutler, Eric S. wrote:
>
> > I have been seeking a technical journal that the University of North
> Carolina has in their microfilm collections. How does one go about
> ordering these for use at the Virginia State Library? Thanks.
> >
> > Eric
> >
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