For someone bookish living in the DC area I hate to admit my last visit to the Library of Congress reading room was 35 years ago (while researching CRT-based word processors, if you can believe it). It seems that the Internet, or our decline as a civilization, one or the other and take your choice, has resulted in a decline of readers actually physically using the reading room. See this piece from AHA.
It goes on to discuss other topics--how historians start their research (from the mountaintop, not from the path) and the dreaded "link rot"
(Every innovation has its downside, and link rot is one of the Web's)
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