Well, my transportation & land use paper plan relies on data from the 1980 census for pittsburgh. Apparently, this can be had at the info desk of the Hillman library at Pitt on CD or on microfiche here. Given that it fits on one CD at hillman, I have to suspect it’s in some sort of spreadsheet or database format already. I’d kill to get my hands on that. I’m betting I won’t get the chance. So, I’ll get to spend hours with a microfiche reader this weekend gathering data for my research paper. Let me tell you how thrilled I am about that.
Ooh, microfiche is the worst. I had to get some government reports off of it last semester and it sucked from start to finish.
Actually, I kind of hate the entire government publications library. I can never find anything. I hate feeling so helpless in a library when, all my life, libraries have been a refuge to me.
Yeah, that pretty much sucks. That’s one of those situations where an iPod will *really* come in handy.