[lbo-talk] Serves me right to bitch and moan

[shag carpet bomb]

that was my question, though. I'm not an academic, yet I can get pretty 
much any scholarly article or book I want, including copies of chapters 
from dissertations, simply by placing the order with interlibrary loan. 
Takes, tops, three days. I'm assuming SA's ILL system for public libraries 
just isn't as liberal as in the states? I've, astonishingly, never had to 
pay either - no matter which state I was in - not even backwater Florida. 
The librarians bent over backward to help find things. librarians rock. I 
agree with your colleauge from the spoons list, though, it should be easy 
to get your hands on scholarly materials. My experience in the states is 
that it is extremely easy - for social science and humanities stuff. And, 
even though they claim they charge, they never have, not in 20 years of 
using the system - even back in the day when they had to physically send 
copies of articles from journals.

At any rate, if I can help, I will!

At 01:44 PM 12/30/2011, Ismail Lagardien wrote:
>There is an interlibrary loan system
>
>The problem I have faced is that being unemployed/out of the educational 
>system means virtually no access to scholarly material. I am battling to 
>get publications out to strengthen my job prospects... Alas. I shouldn't 
>complain too much, I am employed; just not doing what I want to do - teach.
>
>
>Ismail Lagardien
>
>Nihil humani a me alienum puto
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>  From: shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Sent: Friday, 30 December 2011, 20:11
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Serves me right to bitch and moan
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>looks like. from what I can tell, the system is more stringent in SA,
>with ILL access mentioned WRT university systems, and not public
>libraries such as I have mostly dealt with.
>
>I imagine this is has roots in the same ideas that gave rise to the
>differences in copyright/intellectual property laws in u.s. v europe?
>
><> The Google tells me there is interlibrary loan in SA. Is it different
><> there?
><>
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