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[telerib]

A year and a bit ago, I went to the Newberry Library in Chicago specifically to read a 45-page Master's Thesis on "The Anglo-Saxon Scop." OK: I went to Chicago for an engineering conference, but while I was there I made a special side-trip to the Newberry. Anyway.

Christopher Page is one of "the names" in medieval music scholarship; I don't know if he's as prolific or wide-ranging as Timothy McGee, but he's no slouch. And his PhD dissertation was "Anglo-Saxon Hearpan : their terminology, technique, tuning and repertory of verse 850-1066."

IT MUST BE MINE!

So I went to trusty Interlibrary Loan, who told me that it's non-circulating. "Where does it live?" I asked, "so that I may visit it at its non-circulating home?"

Duke University, Durham, NC. That's a five and a half hour trip. I can do that...

Update: I have contacted the Duke Music Library. While the dissertation is too big for them to photocopy, they said to try ILL again. When the request comes through, they'll approve it. Huzzah!

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[m-streight.livejournal.com]

That sounds familiar, but for me the book was in Texas.

[(Anonymous)]

Oi. I was going to post something about never having travelled across state lines for the sole purpose of reading a book, but... then I remembered. Back at A.U., a prof. asked me to do a report on Lagrange's treatment of planetary orbits - the three body problem, various special-case solutions, etc. (He wrote a book in the late 18th century if I'm remembering things correctly.) The University Library didn't have it - nor did the local universities with which AU had book-sharing programs. So off I went to the Library of Congress. Not only did they have it, but they had it in French, German, and Russian. (and possibly Latin, though I'm not sure.) Unfortunately, the didn't have it in English.

Back I went to Dr. Schott, who's Dutch. His reply, "But it's such _easy_ French!" Back I went to the Library of Congress. Did what I could from diagrams and what I understood of the section headings, then Xeroxed the pages I thought most relevant to my progect. Found a French student to translate them at $20/page. (A French professor said the going rate was $100/page.) Picked out five pages, and met up with her (the student) a few days later. She was stuck on some of the technical terms. I could help with those; she filled in the grammar and non-technical stuff, and off I went to write a report on the 5-page excerpt....
-Sarah