Notes, March 1st, 2000
After fifteen years in the music reference business, I still find the very idea of reference miraculous. I mean, to have someone highly qualified in the library whose job it is to help you do your research or simply find what you need: isn't that a minor miracle? Like many academics, I stayed clear of reference librarians for years, finding them crabby and haughty when I asked for assistance and in any case believing that I ought to know how to find what I wanted. The turning point for me came in the Guildhall Library, a city archive in London, where the unfamiliarity of the documents requir...
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