Today I was searching for articles for 3 projects I need to do in the next few weeks. It's very handy if you search from on campus because the websites with journal access will automatically recognize you and allow you to download the papers as a PDF. Occasionally you will find a paper that is in some random journal that the library doesn't have and that doesn't have online access and you need to request an interlibrary loan, which generally means I'll find a new paper, because I'm lazy like that. But, for one topic I was looking at there really weren't all that many interesting papers and I have to read WAY too many journal articles to read non-interesting ones on purpose. So, I went ahead and clicked the 'Find it at MUSC' link...which I found out was in actuality for this one how to find it in the physical bound journals on the shelves upstairs. WHAT? You want me to get up from the computer and FIND this thing!? What century is this!? But I felt like a bum if the only reason I didn't read an article was because I had to do some legwork. So, up I went, with my copy card loaded with money that was given to us at the beginning of the semester (when I was SURE I would never need it). I arrived in the journal region and stopped dead in my tracks as I saw something along these lines...
I'm pretty sure it's been a solid decade since I needed to find something in the midst of THAT. I informed my brain that 'I really can do this, get yourself to finding the Journal of the National Medical Association Volume 101'. To make a long story short, here I sit reading my article on exploring socioeconomic variations in diabetes control strategies, none the worse for wear but certainly distressed by how difficult I made that process out to be. As Jen said when I told her 'what has technology done to us?'
