Discovered: Nov 11, 2024 17:29 The Department of Everything ¦ The Varieties of Travel Experience ¦ Issues ¦ The Hedgehog Review <— The way librarians were in the 80s :-) –> QUOTE: If today I were writing a historical novel set in the 1980s, I might ask, “How did people find information in those days?” There would no longer be any telephone reference librarians to help me, so I’d have to trust to luck—and a search engine—and answer that question myself: They used logic, inference, imagination, and a tall pile of reference books.

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