Addition to being chilly and highly controlled, its also within several hundred yards walk from this spot are for me probably 95 of the documents i will read in my working life. For a scholar or someone who has studied its once you are standing here you have to contemplate your mortality because theres so much that you could. And in fact peter, a book that could be so important to me could just be 15 yards down here on the right but unless i know its there i will never see it. And so everyone who comes and looks at this collection take that challenge. Theres an infinity of doors and pathways you can go down in your research and the challenge is to resist all of those opportunities or almost all of them and just take the ones that really matter to you. I presume there are cameras at this point besides a cspan camera. There are. I will turn on the light here. We controlled temperature and humidity. One of the challenges for rare materials is that we need to keep them dry and thats one of
Addition to being chilly and highly controlled, its also within several hundred yards walk from this spot are for me probably 95 of the documents i will read in my working life. For a scholar or someone who has studied its once you are standing here you have to contemplate your mortality because theres so much that you could. And in fact peter, a book that could be so important to me could just be 15 yards down here on the right but unless i know its there i will never see it. And so everyone who comes and looks at this collection take that challenge. Theres an infinity of doors and pathways you can go down in your research and the challenge is to resist all of those opportunities or almost all of them and just take the ones that really matter to you. I presume there are cameras at this point besides a cspan camera. There are. I will turn on the light here. We controlled temperature and humidity. One of the challenges for rare materials is that we need to keep them dry and thats one of
Addition to being chilly and highly controlled, its also within several hundred yards walk from this spot are for me probably 95 of the documents i will read in my working life. For a scholar or someone who has studied its once you are standing here you have to contemplate your mortality because theres so much that you could. And in fact peter, a book that could be so important to me could just be 15 yards down here on the right but unless i know its there i will never see it. And so everyone who comes and looks at this collection take that challenge. Theres an infinity of doors and pathways you can go down in your research and the challenge is to resist all of those opportunities or almost all of them and just take the ones that really matter to you. I presume there are cameras at this point besides a cspan camera. There are. I will turn on the light here. We controlled temperature and humidity. One of the challenges for rare materials is that we need to keep them dry and thats one of
Addition to being chilly and highly controlled, its also within several hundred yards walk from this spot are for me probably 95 of the documents i will read in my working life. For a scholar or someone who has studied its once you are standing here you have to contemplate your mortality because theres so much that you could. And in fact peter, a book that could be so important to me could just be 15 yards down here on the right but unless i know its there i will never see it. And so everyone who comes and looks at this collection take that challenge. Theres an infinity of doors and pathways you can go down in your research and the challenge is to resist all of those opportunities or almost all of them and just take the ones that really matter to you. I presume there are cameras at this point besides a cspan camera. There are. I will turn on the light here. We controlled temperature and humidity. One of the challenges for rare materials is that we need to keep them dry and thats one of
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