[Sca-cooks] Re: VARA, my buddy my pal

[Volker Bach]

Elizabeth A Heckert schrieb:
>
>   In defense of the poor ILL librarians at my local library, who *don't*
> cringe when they see me coming, oddly enough!
>
>     They do an absolutely fantastic job of finding books for me.  I have
> encountered problems mostly with Scandinavian languages and textile
> information, which isn't surprising--it seems as if textile archeology is
> the orphan step-child of archeology, sometimes!

Let's see. It's exceedingly rare, trouble to dig
up, hard to preserve, hardly anybody in the Dept.
is likely to know anything about it and once you
have it ready for display it most likely looks
like a severely used snotrag. Just the thing to
build an academic career on :-)

Volker