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From: "Gary Griffin" <>
Subject: Re: CT Researching
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 18:29:55 -0400


Megan,

Thanks so much for the info!!!

Gary W. Griffin

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> From: Megan Scott <>
> To:
> Cc:
> Subject: CT Researching
> Date: Friday, August 22, 1997 1:05 PM
>
> One of joys of researching in Connecticut is using the CT State
> Library. It is right across from the Capitol (on Bushnell Park).
> It is one of the few libraries that has open stacks. I am a "shelf
> browser" and I often find something of interest next to or near
> something I have looked up in the catalog. It has an excellent New
> England collection, and New York, and many items of interest from other
> areas of the country.
> They are in the process of electronically cataloging their collection.
> A good percentage is complete. AND, there is online access to it, and
> some other libraries in CT through:
> http://www.auto-graphics.com/cgipac/mmx/rqst (ReQuest is the
> statewide online cataloging process) The search engine is easy to use,
> and one of the best features is the ability to hit a subject heading and
> then find all the books that are cataloged that way. The Ct Hist Soc
> collection is slowly being added as well. There is only one public
> computer, with Ancestral File and some regional census CD's, all in GRS.
> There is a dot matrix printer attached as well. Several Microfilm and
> microfiche readers, some hooked up to printers. They have guides to the
> collection, many of which you can read by accessing:
> http://www.cslnet.ctstateu.edu/handg.htm
>
> We only go down every two or three months, because parking can be
> difficult. There is a pay garage just across the street to the West.
>
> It is a FUN library, and of course has books of CT VR's.
>
> Have fun whenever you are here.
>
> Meg Scott in Connecticut

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