I'm trying to construct a reasonable picture of what it would be like to visit the library at Alexandria late in its heyday, which is difficult, given the lack of consensus about when that even was (for my purposes the later we can reasonably go the better) and the fact that the apparent ruins were only found in 2004. I doubt there are definitive ( Read more... )

This is another NaNo question, which I'm sure you're getting a lot of, but I really don't have the first clue on how to go about searching for this ( Read more... )

Setting: Massachusetts, circa 2005 ( Read more... )

( Cut for long (short version: where in a medievaloid building would be good for keeping books?) )

Google and Wikipedia searches: Victorian era, Victorian era university (+/- women), London public libraries, public libraries, Victorian era public libraries women, Victorian era "women in public", Victorian era social mores, Victorian era church libraries, and anything that might be relevant at Read more... )

I couldn't find any information online for this, though honestly I had no idea how to go about searching for such a thing. If you have any suggestions sources of info on this, they would be welcome ( Read more... )

I'm currently writing a fanfiction. One of my minor characters is roughly 19-20 and has a severe reading handicap. Part of it is due to her upbringing. She was raised without exposure to spoken or written language. (For those familiar with DC Canon, it's an AU Batman story, and the character in question is Cassandra Cain.)

EDIT: DC Canon took a bit ( Read more... )

In these few flashback chapters I'm writing, my character works at Columbia University's Psychology Library as an assistant while attending school there circa year 1999.  I don't know of anyone, personally, that has attended this particular university and/or has been into that particular library so I figured I'd ask here first before looking to ask ( Read more... )

Time: 1865 ( Read more... )

This is not the sort of thing that you can google... but if you think it can be, I welcome the help with the search terms. [Edit: I've found a list of schools. Now I just need opinions about which programs are best loved. or which programs would be most admired as having earned a degree from]I have a character [male though that's probably ( Read more... )