Made it into Jeff City and the Missouri River Regional Library about an hour and a half after bidding adieu to Sedalia. Filtered Wi-Fi (why does anyone even bother with this anymore?) and no dedicated power outlets for us microfilm researchers (you can plug into a power strip mounted on back of the reader table, but it's only energized-grrrr!-when the reader is turned on) serve to knock this one down from a 10 to about the 7.5 range in my book, unfortunately.
Oh, and that's the good part. Guess what you have to do to get the desired rolls of microfilm into your hot little hands so you can go to work. You've got to stop at the reference desk and have someone there get up, walk over and unlock a cabinet for you. I half-jokingly asked the reference librarian if anyone actually stole microfilm in this day and age. He replied-serious as a heart attack-that yes, they did. I suppose we'll have to take him at his word, but this has never been a problem in any other library I've ever visited (not counting UMKC's Miller Nichols Library, whose microfilm stacks, as I've reported here, used to be open but are now closed due to having been automated, not for security purposes).
You know, on second thought, make that a 6.5.
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