Re: [h-cost] not a recent book?
When I worked in a civil service library, people would come in asking if we had an Act of Parliament It's quite far back, 1960's... - We had all legislation back to Edward I !! Jean M+D: Mary and Doug Piero Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote And I had my periodicals librarian hat on. When my patron's first words are do you have old newspapers?, they might mean yesterday's paper, or they might mean 1793! Maria Robin said: Heh. I had my journalist hat on for that one. When I worked on a daily newspaper, anything more than a week old was ancient. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume -- Jean Waddie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] not a recent book?
And I had my periodicals librarian hat on. When my patron's first words are do you have old newspapers?, they might mean yesterday's paper, or they might mean 1793! Maria Robin said: Heh. I had my journalist hat on for that one. When I worked on a daily newspaper, anything more than a week old was ancient. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] not a recent book?
chortling delightedly Robin, dear lady, such a laugh you've just given me! On a list that routinely discusses 500 year old documents, (and even older!) you're saying 2002 isn't recent? still giggling Maria Robin said: Not a recent book, but new to me: snipped citation ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] not a recent book?
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, M+D: Mary and Doug Piero Carey wrote: chortling delightedly Robin, dear lady, such a laugh you've just given me! On a list that routinely discusses 500 year old documents, (and even older!) you're saying 2002 isn't recent? still giggling Heh. I had my journalist hat on for that one. When I worked on a daily newspaper, anything more than a week old was ancient. This one is too old for us to review in the next Medieval Clothing Textiles journal, in any case! --Robin ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
