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- From: yoshi@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil (D M Yoshikami)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Charactor Titles
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.124532.6648@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 12:45:32 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.183335.25640@pellns.alleg.edu> <1992Aug12.181748.25485@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
- Organization: National Naval Medical Center
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- In article <1992Aug12.181748.25485@bcrka451.bnr.ca> nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
- >I find that, in general, people just don't know how to look things up.
- >This is bad enough in the general populations, but we writers (or
- >would-be writers) should be more literate than that.
-
- Yes. Many writers write books and articles -- and guess where these things
- often wind up! You guessed it -- Libraries!!! It is well worth the time
- learning how to research and find things out. But if you are not sure, there
- is a shortcut. It's called the Reference Librarian. That's the person who
- knows where just about anything is, can quote L of C call numbers like there's
- no tomorrow, and knows the in's and out's of getting stuff on Inter-library
- Loan if you need it. They'll also know of other libraries which may have
- more material, or another librarian or even a professor (or whonot) who knows
- where to find more stuff. And if you're really nice, they might even show you
- some sneaky ways to find things out, and some really unusual books that you
- never knew existed.
-
- By all means, go stack stomping, and make friends with the librarian. I
- learned that I had to do the latter in graduate school. If you irritate the
- librarian, that can only make your thesis research that much harder. :-)
- Fortunately, I did not have to learn THAT the hard way.
-
- DY :-)
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