Funny Old Things
I went to the Engineering & Science Library at the university today, and I used their microfilm machine to scan a three-page article on mouse genetics from a 1966 issue of Nature. They had a neat interface that allowed me to simply email the scan to myself, so now that I'm home, I've printed a copy of it. The author of the article immediately before the one in which I am interested is signed by one B. D. Lake, whose address for correspondence is quite curious:
Department of Morbid Anatomy,
Hospital for Sick Children,
Great Ormond Street, London, W.C.1.
Things just aren't what they used to be, are they?
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The microfilm machines in Hillman have this too. I recently sent myself some silent film scenarios and publicity pieces from the magazine Moving Picture World c. 1928 . . . I already loved microfilm, now they've made it even better. Although on some level I always find it sad, when I use technologies like this, that the libraries themselves often don't retain a digital copy . . .
Posted by: zp | October 16, 2006 08:01 PM