copiers

[quislibet]

In Rockefeller Library, there are, to my knowledge, 6 photocopiers, on two levels, available for public use. Possibly there are others, but I have never needed to know about them.

Two of them won't take my copy card. (*)

Two of them have blinking error lights.

One of them prints dark streaks across every copy.

The other has had something of a line-up to use it.

Incidentally, in new periodicals alone (quite apart from the hit list I brought with me) I had about 200 pages' worth of articles to copy that seemed relevant, many directly so, to my dissertation. Alas.

Now I go join my beloved and her colleagues for bad burgers and, I hope, better beer.

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(*) The fourth Brown University library copy card I own, as I forget to bring them every time I come down here (which is admittedly not too often). Last night, meaning to avoid this, I marched right upstairs to my desk to find one of the old ones and then got distracted, ultimately forgetting the copy card entirely, when I saw my credit card bills sitting there on top of my strata of papers as a grim reminder of duty. But as it's five cents a page cheaper to use the card, it's worth it to spend the dollar for a new card each time. Woe, alas, eheu, oimoi talas, ktl.

Comments

[shnells.livejournal.com]

it must be an ivy league thing. i remember the library at columbia (the medical campus) was the same story. 8 or 10 copiers and only two of them sort of working with lines out the door to use them.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Could well be an Ivy League thing. The copiers in the BU library usually seem all right.