What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material.
I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.
I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.
I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.
Libraries are where it all begins.
I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.
We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.