12.4.04

I Love ILL

I hate almost every aspect of the main library here. It is, in true Toronto fashion, the antithesis of all things good and user-friendly in architecture. Everything from the over-worked and under-funded staff to the numerous bottlenecks scattered throughout the building seems to work against the efficient conduct of research and higher learning. One exception to the rule is Interlibrary Loans (ILL), which brings the academic capital, i.e. books, of other institutions of higher learning to this one, which lacks a decent Slavic section. Without them, I wouldn't be able to write my dissertation. Currently in my carrel:

  • Zuzana Kočová. Kronika Armádního uměleckého divadla [Chronicle of the Naval Artistic Theater]. Prague: Naše vojsko, 1955.

  • Lola Skrbková. E. F. Burianova voicebandová kompozice Máchova Máje [E. F. Burian's Voiceband Composition: Mácha's May]. Brno: Městské kulturní středisko S. K. Neumanna, 1976.

  • Ukazatel' periodicheskikh izdanii emigratsii iz Rossii i SSSR za 1919-1952 gg [Guide to the Periodical Publishing of the Emigration from Russia and the USSR, 1919-1952]. Munich: Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of the USSR, 1953.

  • Beautiful and useful books, all of them. -Zh.

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