Comments | thewayne: Some interesting recent library finds

thewayne

Some interesting recent library finds

Mar 30, 2022 15:51

While straightening books today, I came across a very interesting title that I wanted to share. Coming of Age In Second Life, An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human, by Tom Boellstorff. This guy is an actual anthropology prof and teaches it. He spent two years studying the people who populate Second Life, embedding himself there by ( Read more... )

books, librarianship stuff, libraries

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coming42 March 31 2022, 09:34:57 UTC

I might look for a copy of The Earps Talk.

thewayne March 31 2022, 15:59:55 UTC

Well, hit up that library that I sent that book to a few months ago, and tell them they can request it from library symbol MXO, Townsend Library in Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA if they can't find it more easily!

coming42 March 31 2022, 16:21:54 UTC

Hang on Wayne! Are you saying that a library in New Mexico would send a book on loan to me in the United Kingdom?!

thewayne March 31 2022, 16:52:45 UTC

Inter-Library Loan also works for International-library Loan!

I've sent one book to Thailand and one to England!

If they can't get it from somewhere closer, yes, I'd be happy to send it to the UK!

coming42 March 31 2022, 17:27:32 UTC

So how would I contact Inter-Library Loan?

thewayne March 31 2022, 18:07:34 UTC

Just ask your library! They'll check their catalogs, they might be able to find it within their UK networks. That's actually an ILL request. If they can't find it within the UK, then they expand their search, and they can add my library's symbol, MXO, to the search string and it will be routed to me. You never know, there might be a copy quite close by. Our collections hold some curious things!

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