And then,
For those of us geographically some distance from the Universities, it
required sweet talking nice librarians over the phone to look up the library
catalogue (they were electronic by the time I was doing it but were not
online) to see if their library held it, before a day trip was organised to
photocopy...and document delivery? It usually took several months!
I do NOT miss those times.
Karleen Gribble
Australia
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From: Lactation Information and Discussion
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Catherine Watson Genna BS,
IBCLC
Sent: Monday, 24 January 2011 9:54 AM
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Subject: Re: Number of citations on breastfeeding

Marsha reminds us of the days when we used to have to search huge books 
called Index Medicus and BioAbstracts to find keywords, which were 
crossreferenced to 12 or 16 digit numbers, which corresponded to 
abstracts in the back of the book (a quarterly significantly larger than 
the largest textbook) to see if the article might be helpful. Then one 
had to find the actual paper journal in the stacks, and photocopy it. I 
for one am extremely grateful for technology, and for the ability to 
search hundreds of articles in a keystroke and access pdf copies in minutes.

Now all we need is for full text access to be less prohibitively expensive.

Catherine Watson Genna BS, IBCLC  NYC  cwgenna.com

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