Isn't this supposed to be a research library?
WTF! So the microfilm of my last manuscript fragment finally arrived and I got the nice little e-mail from the library system a mere 7 minutes before I had to leave to get Birdy. Ok, me thinks, I'll go take a look tomorrow. So I get here, and I get my pretty little blue paper wrapped box, and I go up to the fourth floor of the library... there are 5 microfilm machines. Cool. One is occupied by someone making scans for interlibrary loan. Ok. One is out of order. Ok. One only makes copies and I need scans. Ok. So I sit down at another one... its zoom function doesn't work at all. Great, ok... there's one more... so I go sit down at it, get my microfilm all loaded up, its zoom function works, but only in the IN direction, and since my film is of a manuscript its quite large and I need to zoom OUT, but I can't past a certain point. So now I'm waiting. I'm a student at the largest University in my state and I can't even read a microfilm that I had to have shipped in from Stanford, because someone else somewhere else wants some copies of newspaper clippings. Oh, and I'm supposed to have my document finished today, yeah, right!