I was lucky. As un undergraduate, I worked in the "stacks" of the University of Illinois library [which I was told was the third largest in the U.S. but never checked or though important]. My job was to "shelve read" or make sure the books were in their correct order. Fortuantely, I was good at it, so could do my 2 hours quota in one, which left an hour to root through any items I wished. Every Nazi publication, every French one, EVERYTHING was there. I knew what had been going on in Viet Nam before the newspapers did. Well, that's enough now, but you can imagine what else was available!
I was lucky. As un undergraduate, I worked in the "stacks" of the University of Illinois library [which I was told was the third largest in the U.S. but never checked or though important]. My job was to "shelve read" or make sure the books were in their correct order. Fortuantely, I was good at it, so could do my 2 hours quota in one, which left an hour to root through any items I wished. Every Nazi publication, every French one, EVERYTHING was there. I knew what had been going on in Viet Nam before the newspapers did. Well, that's enough now, but you can imagine what else was available!
I couldn't resist listening to the origins of Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. Hilarious.