I would often go looking for one title and end up with something more useful/relevant/interesting from nearby that I didn't know to look for

Absolutely! It's like looking in a dictionary vs. using an online dictionary. In a paper one, you can browse and you see cool words.

Jeb tried to get rid of the state library. He was going to sell it to a private university that the Bushes have ties to.

There was enough outrage that was stopped. But right after the deal was ended a new rule came down that there would be no browsing in the stacks. I'm not sure if that's still the case

I would often go looking for one title and end up with something more useful/relevant/interesting from nearby that I didn't know to look for

Absolutely. I probably found half the research material for my master's thesis this way. It's also a great way to get a broad sense of a subject. I went to the library to find a new diet, grabbed a bunch of books from the right area, and explored them further at home. Going through an electronic list (or summaries) of diet related books would not have gotten me nearly the same info.

No browsing in the stacks? Man, that family really never learned to read, did they? My local library branch has no books, or relatively few. Even the sparse bookshelves are embarrassingly bare. Everything has to be ordered (by computer, of which they have many) from the main branch downtown, or by ILL. I used to love the downtown library, but they seem to have remodeled the library-ness right out of it, made the actual books inaccessible, removed the long tables where you could spread out your term paper or the research you were doing into the several sub-groups or chapters. Even the children's corner is changed. It's constantly noisy, now, with videos playing and "interactive" toys that make noise. There are a few shelves of picture books, but the kids go for the padded playpit and the toys, rather than the tables and chairs and the books.

I have never dated a brass player, so I can only speak from personal experience. Er.

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Not as bad as the immobilizing back spasms from hell back in May, but some of my neck and shoulder muscles are so tight right now that it hurts to bend my head forward or move it from side to side, and writing sends little needles of pain through the sore spots.

This sucks. Why is my body betraying me like this all of a sudden?

If the four ibuprofen I'm about to take with lunch don't help, is there any reason I shouldn't break out the flexeril and tylenol 3 for this? I just want the muscles to loosen up so I can write again, and not be in such constant pain.

No browsing in the stacks? Man, that family really never learned to read, did they?

Supposedly the order came from someone other than Bush and the rule was supposed to protect the valuable books. Books that were so valuable Bush was ready to sell them for next to nothing.

Most people think it was ruling made of spite.

Y'all do know that "tonguing" is part of a trumpet player's technique, right? They even have sub-categories like Doodle Tonguing, Double Tonguing, Speed Tonguing and Softer Multiple Tonguing. You gotta be careful about overworking the embrochure though

Flute players use double tonguing, triple tonguing and flutter tonguing as well. I would venture that most brass and woodwinds (except maybe reed instruments) use some form of tonguing. We're very good at it.

a scholar in a library is just like a swinging primate. “You’ve got your current source, which is the branch you are on, and then you see the next source, on the next branch, so you swing over. And on that new hanging vine, you see the next source, which you didn’t see before, and you swing again.”

Yes! I have done this on many occassions. But, I did get my grad degree before computers were used as much to say nothing of my undergrad degree.

How do you prevent people from browsing in the stacks? Were the stacks inaccessible? A large portion of my university undergrad general library was like that.

Not as bad as the immobilizing back spasms from hell back in May, but some of my neck and shoulder muscles are so tight right now that it hurts to bend my head forward or move it from side to side, and writing sends little needles of pain through the sore spots.

I've started going to a chiropractor and I already feel better. Not great yet, but def. better.