http://www.jamesgalvin.com/2006/05/03/ucc-library/ Even a Stopped Clock Tells the Right Time Twice a Day Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:10:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.jamesgalvin.com/2006/05/03/ucc-library/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Jimi St Pierre Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:31:04 +0000 http://www.jamesgalvin.com/2006/05/03/ucc-library/#comment-195 Ah the joys! For a jaded hack in his mid-50's, your rant brought back into vivid focus, the torrid days in the library stacks at UC Swansea in late sixties, with zombie-shuffling, bleary-eyed folk desperatly churning out grey-edged photocopies from books in danger of spine-split under the weight of the hefty photocopier platens of those days. If the struggles of those days were character-forming, then it is good to see that the struggle continues, even it has shifted to a place in the labyrinthine, electronic maze. Ah the joys! For a jaded hack in his mid-50’s, your rant brought back into vivid focus, the torrid days in the library stacks at UC Swansea in late sixties, with zombie-shuffling, bleary-eyed folk desperatly churning out grey-edged photocopies from books in danger of spine-split under the weight of the hefty photocopier platens of those days. If the struggles of those days were character-forming, then it is good to see that the struggle continues, even it has shifted to a place in the labyrinthine, electronic maze.

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