Visitors today

This morning we had home schoolers visit the Bullis Room.  We are doing a class on Core Library Skills at the Macedon Public Library and  we wanted the students to be aware that many libraries have special places where additional information can be found on a research topic.  The Bullis Room is such a place and is an excellent resource for primary source information.  The student's initial comments were about the smell - smelled like old books and a bit of smoke.  (We had a fire in 2001 and the smell does linger a little.)  They were shown some of the great illustrations in Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York (c1899) and the Notes on Tulip species by W.R. Dykes (1930).  Some pulled items off the shelves to peruse.  The biggest hits were the Atlas of Wayne County (1874)  and a bound copy of the Macedon Newsgatherer from the 1890's on loan to the Bullis Room.  The students enjoyed looking for the roads their homes were on - a few of those roads did not exist in 1874.  And they enjoyed the advertisements and the "people" section of the Newsgatherer.  So if you are researching at your local public library remember that there may be other resources that aren't quite evident on your initial search. Ask your librarian to help you.  And if you are researching in the Macedon, NY, area, please be sure to look at our listing in the OWWL.org catalog in the advanced search (limiting to Bullis Room).  The Bullis collection of books is so wide and varied that there is sure to be something that would provide a wee bit of information.