I love technology. (If only it loved me...)

Interlibrary loan has come so far since the days when you walked into the library, failed to find what you were looking for in the card catalog, hunted down the cranky librarian, filled out a form on yellow paper, waited three weeks, and got a book back - which you could only actually view at the library, usually within sight of said cranky (and justifiably suspicious) librarian.

I remember these days. THEY WERE NOT THAT LONG AGO.

But today, I submitted requests for a number of journal articles and books today by logging onto the college's Interlibrary Loan webpage and telling them what I wanted. The journal articles will probably be made available for download from the same webpage. Awesome sauce.

Oh, yes. And the name of the college's interlibrary loan system?

ILLiad.

I'm not even a Homer buff, and I think that's damn cool.