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=== Efficient Use of Time === | === Efficient Use of Time === | ||
Make the best use of library time by planning work at home or whilst travelling, using the guidebooks and holdings catalogues that you have received from archives or are available online. The | Make the best use of library time by planning work at home or whilst travelling, using the guidebooks and holdings catalogues that you have received from archives or are available online. The FamilySearch Catalog is available online and provides enormous savings of FamilySearch Center time by looking up catalogue queries at home. | ||
Many repositories require you to book ahead for a film or fiche reader, or use of a computer. Plan well-ahead for these so you can get the machines you need when your material is first there. In all likelihood you will need to read some of it and then go home and digest the material, returning later for another session, so you need to leave time for that. Occasionally one runs into machine breakdowns or electricity outage and so on. If you always read time-dated material, such as films at a FamilySearch Center, directly they come in this will not bother you. | Many repositories require you to book ahead for a film or fiche reader, or use of a computer. Plan well-ahead for these so you can get the machines you need when your material is first there. In all likelihood you will need to read some of it and then go home and digest the material, returning later for another session, so you need to leave time for that. Occasionally one runs into machine breakdowns or electricity outage and so on. If you always read time-dated material, such as films at a FamilySearch Center, directly they come in this will not bother you. | ||
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Many FamilySearch Centers (FSCs) have a list for patron use of the films in on short-term loan. This may be called the ''Flip Chart'', a term dating back to the spiral-bound books provided to the first FSCs for keeping this list. | Many FamilySearch Centers (FSCs) have a list for patron use of the films in on short-term loan. This may be called the ''Flip Chart'', a term dating back to the spiral-bound books provided to the first FSCs for keeping this list. | ||
Take note of the film number and due date for any films of possible use, then look up (and print off) the details on the | Take note of the film number and due date for any films of possible use, then look up (and print off) the details on the FamilySearch Catalog at the FSC. To save valuable FSC time, check at home on the Internet LDS Site FamilySearch Catalog under ''Film/Fiche Search''. | ||
You will then know the exact parishes and dates on each film and can decide whether you want to read it next time you are there. I write film number, due date and brief details on a slip of paper of similar size to an order form, and keep these in due date order with my own orders in a pocket in my work book. | You will then know the exact parishes and dates on each film and can decide whether you want to read it next time you are there. I write film number, due date and brief details on a slip of paper of similar size to an order form, and keep these in due date order with my own orders in a pocket in my work book. | ||