medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I am an independent scholar (who has learned and been helped much by this
fine list) who lives far from any academic libraries. I am a member of the
London Library, who will post [mail] me books, and of the Morrab Library in
Penzance, a remarkable institution with some surprising acquisitions -- but these
excellent places can only lend me books they own... Public libraries in
this country are increasingly internet cafes without the coffee; interlibrary
loan is expensive (I bought a second-hand copy via abebooks of one title for
less than ILL was going to charge me!). It is true to say that local history
is far better served than it was when I started out (when local history was
the province of not-quite-historians and radicals like me) -- because of the
power of the family-history researcher (which is fine; I do all that too).
But it means that general history texts are extremely hard to come by. Some I
will buy; but for the rest I travel up to London and the BL. The British
Library is one of the jewels in our crown. How can it be treated like this?
Susan
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