Status Quo

Here I am, a few days after my first post and I'm still waiting for notification that my Library books I put on hold have been pulled and are ready. The online catalog is really quite nice (though I find that the NYPL's Performing Arts Branch really doesn't have the great selection one would think!) but this is the second time I've put books on hold from home only to have to several days for someone to go to the stacks and pull the material.

I think I should have just gone to the library and pulled the stuff myself. There is a problem with that plan. Have you ever been to that library at Lincoln Center? It's impossible to find anything. Stuff is really not shelved correctly and is very nonsensical. I'm sure Library Scientists are going into collective apoplexy, but the Dewey Decimal system has really failed when it comes to Music Libraries. I should know, I worked in one for a summer during grad school.

I guess it's up to me to go and pick up those research items on my own. I'm looking forward to diving into a few books about homosexuality in opera. There isn't much research material so I have a feeling that I will be doing a lot of first hand analysis on my own!