Re: firestone library

Interesting link...will definitely use it sometime.

I think I actually posted a blow by blow account of my first visit to
the Firestone library on this list back in 2000. If it's worth your
time to search the archives, that would be better than what I tell you
now because it was written right after I visited.

I remember, though, having to sign in and show ID. I may have had to
leave my driver's liscense at the desk.

I remember a woman showing me the archive index, and me pointing out to
her what I wanted.

I remember having to leave pretty much everything outside the room, but
once inside I did see people with laptops there.

I remember being escorted into a smallish, semicircular, auditorium-like
room. Each asile was slightly above the one in front of it and had long
tables that followed the arc of the room. Seems like there was a nice
little reading light set up on the table, one for each chair.

There was a single desk at base of the room with an attendant seated
there that never, ever, left.

There was a slightly Fort Knoxish kind of feel to the place...

Jim

Kim Johnson wrote:

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>jim, perhaps you'd tell us what it's really like going
>to firestone...
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>kim
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