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To: Monty Lenard who wrote (3812)	5/21/2001 7:27:45 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

I still couldn't get the book I wanted on Saturday - the 1931 Annual Report of the BIS. Most of the collections of the Library of Congress are in what they call closed stacks, underground, so you need to fill out a request slip and the staff sends the request down on a dumbwaiter and then the books come up maybe an hour later on the dumbwaiter, and the staff brings it to your table. I put the request in four times on Saturday. The first time I filled in the title part of the form, "Annual Report for 1931." An hour later the slip came back with a box checked "Which volume?" There's a blank for volume, so I filled that in - "1931." An hour later I received . . . . the Index. So I sent in another slip requesting Volume 1. An hour later the slip came back with a box checked "Not on shelf." So I told the librarian that the catalogue says that it's available, and she said to come back today and ask for a special search. So that's what I am going to do. I don't suspect anything nefarious. The people who pull the books are not trained librarians, they're sort of manual laborers. I did get later issues commencing with 1935, all the way to 1940, and it contained economic analysis of the type you get from the Fed, the Census Bureau, and the Department of Labor. It's the type of thing a historian or a historical economist would find interesting, but probably no one else.