personal anecdote WAS [Alumni-chat] Why Aren't the Students Using the Library?

[lwollin]

My memories of the library are less carcinogenic,
having to do with things like running into Louis Filler
near the checkout desk and asking him a reference question
and having him give out with a stream of citations as I frantically
write down as much as I can while he delivers more information
than I can scribble.  Or sitting on the floor in the stacks reading
Charles Sumner's speeches in the Congressional Record  for a
paper I was doing for North And South (for Filler). Or learning
about and borrowing records of Bessie Smith from the record
collection.  I don't think I could bear seeing that place if it has
gotten so scraggley now. I loved that library.

Lucy Wollin (1961)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sonia Jaffe Robbins" <sjr5 at nyu.edu>
To: "Alumni Chat List" <alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu>
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Using the Library?


>I certainly used the library for its explicit purposes, but my strongest 
>memory of the library is that it's where I learned to smoke. I.e., there 
>was a smoking section in the library, either near the doors, or  between 
>the inner and outer doors. And I noticed that if you smoked, you could take 
>a cigarette out to the smoking area and meet a boy by asking for a light. 
>So that's why I started to smoke. Of course, once I'd gotten my cigarette 
>lit, I usually couldn't think of anything else to say, but I was guaranteed 
>at least 10 minutes of hanging around whichever boy I'd asked for a light.
> -- 
> Sonia Jaffe Robbins
> Antioch College, '60-'62, '64
> sjr5 at nyu.edu srobbins at reedbusiness.com
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