Searching & Seeking
May. 30th, 2008 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotHey.
Spent most of the afternoon in the library at Carson-Newman College today. Looking for something I saw years ago in an old issue of American Heritage magazine. The pros and cons about American Heritage:
PRO:
* Most libraries have the back issues, and they're often easy to find
* They're always well worth browsing if you're interested in History
* They're entertaining reads
* The magazine has a new website in which all their content is searchable
CON:
* The first twenty years of the run of the magazine was in HARDBACK format
* They tend to get beat up after years and years of use
* The website doesn't include the old illustrations, for copyright reasons (so sometimes context is lost)
* The website content is digitized via a optical character recognition software, and often posted without proofreading, so typoes creep into the on-line version (something of an annoyance)
Now, what I was looking for was definitely in the Hardback era of the magazine. I went through about a third of the Hardbacks in the C-N collection, and didn't find what I sought, so I will likely go back on Monday or Tuesday. Or I'll go through the on-line version and see if I can find what I want that, way...tho' I doubt that method has much chance of success.
Bah. If I was so interested in the subject matter the first time, I should have written it down the first time.
FP
Spent most of the afternoon in the library at Carson-Newman College today. Looking for something I saw years ago in an old issue of American Heritage magazine. The pros and cons about American Heritage:
PRO:
* Most libraries have the back issues, and they're often easy to find
* They're always well worth browsing if you're interested in History
* They're entertaining reads
* The magazine has a new website in which all their content is searchable
CON:
* The first twenty years of the run of the magazine was in HARDBACK format
* They tend to get beat up after years and years of use
* The website doesn't include the old illustrations, for copyright reasons (so sometimes context is lost)
* The website content is digitized via a optical character recognition software, and often posted without proofreading, so typoes creep into the on-line version (something of an annoyance)
Now, what I was looking for was definitely in the Hardback era of the magazine. I went through about a third of the Hardbacks in the C-N collection, and didn't find what I sought, so I will likely go back on Monday or Tuesday. Or I'll go through the on-line version and see if I can find what I want that, way...tho' I doubt that method has much chance of success.
Bah. If I was so interested in the subject matter the first time, I should have written it down the first time.
FP
