http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7914828.stm
It's an article on how wonderful it is that political movements are
better documented in their formative stages these days ... but all I
could think was what a pain it can be researching anything that
happened before 1995.
After the low-hanging
2009/3/4 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
(I've been *really annoyed* lately when a fact in an article has a
reference ... but it's been tagged {{fact}} because it doesn't have an
*online* reference. Suggestion: searching for all articles with
/ref{{fact in them and sending 50,000 volts through
2009/3/4 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com:
Two words: interlibrary loan.
-Durova
Doesn't work so well these days. Enough libraries have been closed and
stock sold off that you don't have to get that obscure before you have
to turn to the rather expensive out of county loan system. For example
2009/3/4 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
2009/3/4 geni geni...@gmail.com:
2009/3/4 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com:
Two words: interlibrary loan.
-Durova
Doesn't work so well these days. Enough libraries have been closed and
stock sold off that you don't have to get that obscure
Durova wrote:
Two words: interlibrary loan.
-Durova
This is in the Outer Limits of Sam's complaint. For someone who can't
get to his local library to find what is already there the notion of
interlibrary loans is an unfathomable mystery.
Ec
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Sam
Jay Litwyn wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Pageprintable=yes
That is what I found when I was looking for what Brian Vibber means in this
thread. It is not PDF; It is -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN . It
removes the most dynamic links I can think of, and those
2009/3/4 geni geni...@gmail.com:
2009/3/4 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
2009/3/4 geni geni...@gmail.com:
Doesn't work so well these days. Enough libraries have been closed and
stock sold off that you don't have to get that obscure before you have
to turn to the rather expensive out
2009/3/4 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net:
It confuses me when access to British democracy depends on paying only
$2.95 to an American supplier.
Could you explain that reference?
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2009/3/4 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com:
Two words: interlibrary loan.
-Durova
That gives me an idea. Some users live in rural areas far away from
large book repositories, with little capacity to check off-line
resources, while other users live in metropolitan centres with dozens
of vast
That would be brilliant. Great idea!
Fwiw, I have a query like that for anyone who has access to the local
records of Roubaix, France. Trying to find the birth and/or death dates for
Jean Desbouvrie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Desbouvrie
Possible April Fool's FA here; small topic. The
Oldak Quill wrote:
2009/3/4 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com:
Two words: interlibrary loan.
-Durova
That gives me an idea. Some users live in rural areas far away from
large book repositories, with little capacity to check off-line
resources, while other users live in metropolitan centres
On Mar 4, 2009, at 1:28 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
The quick answer is yes. I recall running acrost it a few years
ago. I
think I may have even added my own name for something or other. I
have a rather
large library (for an individual) in my house.
The problem is, I can't quite
2009/3/4 Phil Nash pn007a2...@blueyonder.co.uk:
There should be a way of
finding out about these things, and perhaps some sort of give us your old
books drive would be worth trying.
Neither the WMF nor chapters are really in a position to store large
numbers of books and for the most part
2009/3/4 geni geni...@gmail.com:
Getting access to existing collections and permission to make copies
of them (county archives will generaly photocopy stuff for you but
they won't let you point a camera at the stuff) is a more significant
issue at this point.
2009/3/4 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
2009/3/4 geni geni...@gmail.com:
Getting access to existing collections and permission to make copies
of them (county archives will generaly photocopy stuff for you but
they won't let you point a camera at the stuff) is a more significant
issue at
Phil Nash wrote:
Oldak Quill wrote:
2009/3/4 Durova:
Two words: interlibrary loan.
That gives me an idea. Some users live in rural areas far away from
large book repositories, with little capacity to check off-line
resources, while other users live in metropolitan
David Gerard wrote:
2009/3/4 geni geni...@gmail.com:
Getting access to existing collections and permission to make copies
of them (county archives will generaly photocopy stuff for you but
they won't let you point a camera at the stuff) is a more significant
issue at this point.
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Phil Nash wrote:
Oldak Quill wrote:
2009/3/4 Durova:
Two words: interlibrary loan.
That gives me an idea. Some users live in rural areas far away
from large book repositories, with little capacity to check
off-line resources, while other users live in metropolitan
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/3/4 geni geni...@gmail.com:
2009/3/4 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
2009/3/4 geni geni...@gmail.com:
Doesn't work so well these days. Enough libraries have been closed and
stock sold off that you don't
2009/3/5 phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com:
and a decent bibliography on any topic may be one of the greatest
services Wikipedia provides in a few years.
It's one of the greatest services we provide *now*. Even when the
article prose has been turned into querulous grey mush, all but
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Phil Nash pn007a2...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
Oldak Quill wrote:
2009/3/4 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com:
Two words: interlibrary loan.
-Durova
That gives me an idea. Some users live in rural areas far away from
large book repositories, with little capacity
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