Guilty pleasures
It's been 3 months out of academia for me. What do I miss from the Farm?
- Definitely the people (and I haven't visited enough)
- The collections
- The lectures, fora and other programs
- The easier commute (even outside of rush hour, my commute is 3X what it used to be [ 20 minutes, fastest time vs. 1 hr., fastest time])
- Being on a college campus, even one without a pool hall or a pinball machine
- The campus bookstore
- Being able to see Rodins on my lunch hour
But I knew I would miss that stuff. What I did not expect to miss: OCLC's WorldCat.
Yes, I know there's millions of WorldCat records on Google and Yahoo, but it's not quite the same as getting it through FirstSearch. And, curmudgeon that I am, it's not like I didn't have issues with FirstSearch ... but it was very easy and rather streamlined and you could hop from record to record to record ... in a snap.
Yeah, I kinda miss Eureka, too, but from a GovDocs angle, I had more baggage with RLIN than OCLC (try searching for annual report as a Title word search via Z39.50 in RLG if you want to see why I have baggage).
You know, it's the little things ...