John
I have found the Main Reading Room to be faster than in your past 
experience, usually within an hour or two.
 From distant repositories, you may want to order ahead.
I would definitely check with the appropriate room to see about ordering 
in advance. (Can do that online.)
You will need a reader's card- they expire after a year or two, but that 
takes only a half hour.
Roger Mellen

On 12/1/15 10:09 AM, Jon Kukla wrote:
> In recent years all my research at the Library of Congress has been in the
> Manuscripts Reading Room of the Madison Building, where materials are
> served to researchers very promptly after one's request is submitted.
>     Some years back, on the other hand, when using the printed collections
> through the Main Reading Room of what's now called the Jefferson Building,
> one generally could turn in call slips in the morning and hope the books
> arrived that afternoon. Service may now be more rapid - I haven't had
> occasion to in recent years.
>     All that said, I would be grateful for advice from experienced VA-HIST
> scholars about using Microfilm Collections at the Library of Congress.  I'm
> hoping next week to consult film held by LC of manuscripts in a more
> distant repository. Is that something one can likely accomplish there in
> half a day?
>
> Thank you
>
> Jon Kukla
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