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From: snyder@boreas.steinmetz (Snyder)
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Subject: Re: Yet more elementary dross.. a suggestion
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Date: 5 Apr 88 13:46:09 GMT
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In article <1705@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:

>I'd like to add one thing to his points:  "going to the library" is not
>necessarily even a viable option for many people.  Here in LA, for
>example, one would think that there are lots of places to go for
>graphics publications.  However, important parts of UCLA's collection
>only go back five years;  USC has similar deficiencies.  The best
>graphics collection is apparently at UC Irvine;  depending on where you
>live, that can be a 2 to 3 hour drive from home.  For someone who
>doesn't live in a big city with lots of universities, I could imagine that
>going to the library for graphics literature could even become a two-day
>project.
>-- 
>	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff

Ever hear of inter-library loans? I'm not from California, but many libraries
here on the east coast will forward material, or in the case of journal
articles, copies of the articles. If you can find a reference (most university
libraries should be able to help you with a literature search also),
and your library doesn't have the item, chances are they can get it for
you.

Some experience in the past is that this takes on the order of a week,
maybe two. And you get the information first hand. Using news, it probably
will also take a week, and you will either get second hand information or
a reference to what you should have had anyway.

I'm not against asking questions on the network. I think its good and
one of the purposes of this newsgroup. But making some effort to find
the answer to your question yourself is probably more beneficial to you
and less annoying to the rest of the network.

Derek Snyder