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March 9th, 2007 | View Comments
Number of journal volumes checked out from library: 12, in two separate trips on the same day
Approximate total weight of said journal volumes: Eleventy billion pounds
Approximate total distance I schlepped said journal volumes without the benefit of a backpack: 3 light-years
Most volumes of a single journal checked out: 4, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
Journal I least expected to have to check out of the library: Journal of Personality, Vol. 19
Easiest journal to photocopy an article out of: Psychology of Women Quarterly, Vol. 20
Heaviest journal volume: Psychonomic Science, Vol. 3
Journal containing the shortest article I wanted: Psychonomic Science, Vol. 3
Number of times I followed a citation to the references list, only to find the reference was wrong or nonexistent: 2
Number of times discovered the exact same sentence in two papers by the same author: 1
Number of times discovered the exact same sentence in two papers with no overlapping authors and no appropriate citation: 1, eek!
Number of papercuts endured: 4
Number of regular books checked out from library: 2
Number of regular books I tried to check out of the library, only to find that they’d disappeared into the library abyss: 1
Number of library holds placed: 1
Number of Interlibrary Loan requests placed: 25
Number of Interlibrary Loan requests already fulfilled: 11
Number of dissertations received on microfilm: 2
Number of hours spent scanning said dissertations into pdf using the library’s new microfilm reader: 2
Number of times wondered whether “new microfilm reader” is an oxymoron: 1
Approximate percentage complete of lit review: 80%
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2. sarah louise » April 22nd, 2007 at 7:00 am
As a librarian, I love this post. (yes, present tense, love.)
3. In Support of Digital Book Readers » Thought Bubbles » March 11th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
[…] articles on paper—ability to highlight and make notes in the margins—with not having to lug around and/or file giant reams of paper. Less eyestrain, less back […]
1. Dave » March 25th, 2007 at 1:31 am
Wait, CMU doesn’t have copiers that scan pages into .pdf documents? Then again, that’d cost an arm and a leg to scan too many articles.
Ran into your blog and noticed you did the opposite transplant I did, I started in Pittsburgh and went to Wisconsin-Madison for grad school. Hope your studies are going well