With the academic year concluding yesterday I braved the morning rain to get myself up to the New York Public Library on 42nd Street to research my article about Richard Varick. I’m already about 700 words in, which is about 10% percent of what will be the eventual final word count. I intend to submit by Labor Day. I pitched the proposal back in February and have already done quite a bit of research. Now I have to sit down and do it. I had a curious thing happen in the early afternoon when I went to the reference desk to claim my final box of the day. In a coincidence I can’t even begin to describe, another person in the reading room was using the same archival box. That is, of the thousands and thousands of items held in the NYPL Special Collections unit another person submitted a request for today to look at the same item for which I had also submitted a request. Don’t get me wrong. It was no great imposition and the librarian and I had a good laugh about it. I’ll be back at NYPL sometime shortly after Memorial Day and will view it then. Still, what are the odds of that even happening?
Summer research begins
Summer research begins
Summer research begins
With the academic year concluding yesterday I braved the morning rain to get myself up to the New York Public Library on 42nd Street to research my article about Richard Varick. I’m already about 700 words in, which is about 10% percent of what will be the eventual final word count. I intend to submit by Labor Day. I pitched the proposal back in February and have already done quite a bit of research. Now I have to sit down and do it. I had a curious thing happen in the early afternoon when I went to the reference desk to claim my final box of the day. In a coincidence I can’t even begin to describe, another person in the reading room was using the same archival box. That is, of the thousands and thousands of items held in the NYPL Special Collections unit another person submitted a request for today to look at the same item for which I had also submitted a request. Don’t get me wrong. It was no great imposition and the librarian and I had a good laugh about it. I’ll be back at NYPL sometime shortly after Memorial Day and will view it then. Still, what are the odds of that even happening?