Nashville Public Library
Sep. 11th, 2003 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmarleyExcuse me while I wax rhapsodic for a few moments about the Nashville Public Library. I know that there are places with niftier and more extensive facilities, but it's only in the last two or three years that I've realized what a godsend it is to have a kick-ass public library system.
It doesn't matter that their actual collection isn't anything as impressive as even a half-decent academic library when I can get on the Athena system, browse the catalogs of darn near every local university for books about pirates and 17th century history, and inter-library loan what I need without even getting out of bed. Much better than driving the forty-five minutes to MTSU or paying $20 a year to Vandy for a max of four visits and no borrowing priviledges (both of them are on Athena anyway :)). Public library cards are free to residents of Davidson County, so it's like getting borrowing rights to every local academic library for free. How cool is that?
(No, I'm not obsessively researching POTC, why do you ask?)
It doesn't matter that their actual collection isn't anything as impressive as even a half-decent academic library when I can get on the Athena system, browse the catalogs of darn near every local university for books about pirates and 17th century history, and inter-library loan what I need without even getting out of bed. Much better than driving the forty-five minutes to MTSU or paying $20 a year to Vandy for a max of four visits and no borrowing priviledges (both of them are on Athena anyway :)). Public library cards are free to residents of Davidson County, so it's like getting borrowing rights to every local academic library for free. How cool is that?
(No, I'm not obsessively researching POTC, why do you ask?)
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Date: 2003-09-12 10:08 am (UTC)My local isn't hooked up to ANY other library systems, let alone academic.
So if I want to ILL something, I have to know the title on my own, and then I have to hope that they will randomly find it, because it costs $1/search. Bah.
But, go you! Go research PotC! Yay!
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Date: 2003-09-12 04:13 pm (UTC)That would have killed me in grad school. I probably made thirty or more inter-library loan requests every semester. But even though I showered them with forms, the ILL people at MTSU liked me because I always had 95% of my ILL requests filed before mid-terms, instead of waiting until two days before the paper was due. I was an obsessive little geek, but I got a lot more sleep. :)