[ih] Looking for F. Yates and P. Baran paper

[Larry Sheldon]

On 2/26/2012 2:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Larry Sheldon wrote:
>> On 2/26/2012 1:09 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>> Silly thought, but have you tried picking up a phone and CALLING someone
>>> at RAND? I expect there's a corporate library you could start with.
>>
>> How "lo-tech" is THAT?!!?! I was thinking "Hughes" from an earlier
>> remark.
>
> Want really lo-tech - try calling the research desk at one's local
> library - generally, they can track down anything and obtain it through
> inter-library loan. Really useful when one wants a copy of an obscure
> paper that's only available for an exorbitant reprint fee - our local
> library can get pretty much anything, and deliver it via email, at no cost.
>
> This Internet thing has nothing on public librarians. :-)

I have, in low moments of my life *walked into* a library and TALKED to 
a reference librarian.

And it is amazing what they can do.  And make it look incredibly simple 
in the process.


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