Excursions in the online library
Feb. 18th, 2009 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixie1. Should it bother me as much as it does that the logo for Kudzu (an academic library consortium much like OhioLINK or CONSORT, but for Southern universities) uses ivy leaves instead of kudzu as a decoration? Because that really bothers me.
2. There is an entire journal dedicated to Joyceana (James Joyce Quarterly). It has a cartoon relating to Joyce's works in every issue. For some reason, this strikes me as delightfully surreal and oh-so appropriate.
3. In the past two weeks, I've requested six items from ILL. I hope there isn't a monthly limit or anything on those requests. (And may I say, UT has its act together on that much better than Kenyon did. I get my stuff within two or three days, generally, rather than the four months it took when I attempted to use ILL senior year. And they deliver via PDF e-mailed to your account rather than faxing or copying/mailing the pages!)
2. There is an entire journal dedicated to Joyceana (James Joyce Quarterly). It has a cartoon relating to Joyce's works in every issue. For some reason, this strikes me as delightfully surreal and oh-so appropriate.
3. In the past two weeks, I've requested six items from ILL. I hope there isn't a monthly limit or anything on those requests. (And may I say, UT has its act together on that much better than Kenyon did. I get my stuff within two or three days, generally, rather than the four months it took when I attempted to use ILL senior year. And they deliver via PDF e-mailed to your account rather than faxing or copying/mailing the pages!)
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Date: 2009-02-19 03:57 am (UTC)HA! That's great!
And they deliver via PDF e-mailed to your account rather than faxing or copying/mailing the pages!)
Oooh, nice! If we'd had that, I might've actually *used* ILL!
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Date: 2009-02-19 04:50 am (UTC)I thought it was rather appropriate.
Oooh, nice! If we'd had that, I might've actually *used* ILL!
Yep. It's pretty awesome. I don't know what their delivery time on actual books is, but the longest it's ever taken for an article or book chapter for me has been five days. And grad students can shove in line ahead of undergrads, which is excellent and evil. And get free delivery of any book from ILL or the library itself to our departmental mailboxes! We get treated like professors, basically. It's sweet.