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 > ________________ > www.JonKukla.com <http://www.jonkukla.com/> > > ______________________________________ > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html