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Message: <blockquote data-quote="viscounteric" data-source="post: 1644061" data-attributes="member: 9706">Local libraries are great to read last week's Palookaville Journal or to get on the waiting list for the latest Harry Potter book, but are extremely lacking in specific material.  Outside of Chicago?  There's this little place called the University of Chicago, some of you might have heard of it.  They have a half-decent library (you can't take the books out, but it's a fitting place to do some research on the weekends, depending on their summer hours).   Heck, Chicago is chock full of colleges/universities, all which have superior material than 99% of  local libraries.  Next go through the PHYSICAL card catalog (the little drawers filled with cards, most places still have 'em)  I have always been surprised that they are more thorough than the computer searches.  Of course, they don't include material after 1995, but it's a better start.   1500AD not showing up (or Fifteenth Century)?  Spend another 15 seconds and peruse what's above and below your search.  You'd be surprised what's just under your nose.After you find a pile of books, go through the bibiliographies.   Find out what books the author used and check THEM out! Repeat process until you find your specific interest.  If it can work on the obscure topics I wrote for my History degree, it can work for broader topics. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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