Fales and Tamiment

Now, I'll be honest, I am absolutely intimidated by the Bobst Library... kind of. I don't spend much time in there because, well, I have better things to do (probably not true). Well, if sleeping is considered a better thing to do than I'll take it. However(!!!!!!), my opinion was changed forever when we went to Fales. First of all the librarian (don't know his name) was hilarious. The collection of stuff he put out on the table to show us was just incredible. Lots of first press books in their original jackets and some awesome zines. Actually, I think the zines were the best part. I really like the idea of being interested in punk culture, so I might eventually become interested in punk culture. I got like 25% interested in punk culture at some point but then kind of stopped. However, I love old things in good condition so I may just have to go back there. My friend who goes to New School told me she just goes in there sometimes and looks around. Might as well, right? I wish I could have used the collection for my research. I will definitely have to go back. I have a feeling my interest in archiving is going to increase soon, inexplicably. And then I'll be a librarian, and I won't know how it happened.

Tamiment is the older, settled down, retired, activist brother of Fales. Tamiment had lots of cool documents and the presentation was great. I had been doing some research for my project and discovered that Tamiment held the National Organization for Women - New York City Chapter Collection. I became very excited to look through the files. Unfortunately two of the collections were unprocessed. That was really unfortunate. All they need are more people to help organize and catalog items. I took out a few boxes and looked through them and saw that there was plenty of correspondence between other members and my Great Aunt Midge. Also, I realized that I have a lot of the papers I found, in my house, in her files. The one thing I would really like to check out at some point is the NOW-NYC photography collection, which is in someone else's possession off site. I don't know about anyone else but I want to look through everything. There is so much history contained in Bobst and I doubt all of it has been seen. I just took out a book from the library that hadn't been taken out since 2001! There is so much out there. It's overwhelming. What? Is it too lofty a goal to want to read every book in Bobst? Anyway, Fales and Tamiment are alright in my book.