i get to work and there's a voicemail message waiting for me. from a partner. wanting something from a 1978 issue of the new york law journal. and he says he thinks we have this on microfilm.
several problems with this:
1. microfilm? um, i have only used microfilm once before in my life. for a paper for my gov docs class. and how did i accomplish that task? i went up to a librarian and asked him to load the microfilm machine for me.
sure i spent several weeks during an internship taking microfilm out of old boxes and putting them into new boxes with new labels. and another couple of weeks stamping discard onto millions and millions of microfiche envelopes before they could be thrown out. but that doesn't mean i know how to actually use this crap.
2. i was under the impression that our microfilm machine (located in a back closet next to the Christmas deocorations) was broken.
3. i was not aware that we even had microfilm in our library. we do, apparently. in a cabinet. in the back. next to the hanukkah decorations.
so i spent an hour trying to figure out how to work the machine. and then how to get it to print. i am so proud of myself right now, i'm tempted to slap a goldstar to my forehead and leave early today. i think i've earned it.
haha, that's awesome.
ReplyDeletei battled microfilm once. and i most certainly did not win.