Some things remain exactly the same, some are completely different.

One of each today.

The weekly lists of 'grey' literature from government or international organizations make their rounds here just as they did at TheOldPlace. They're as thrilling as ever and I probably select about as much as I did before (i.e. not much).

On the other hand, binding is different. TheOldPlace had an enquiry desk devoted to copying and binding and the like and students could get documents up to and including dissertations either bound with comb binding or heat binding. If, as staff, I ever needed something bound I could either go do it myself if the desk was unmanned or ask for it to be done if the staff weren't busy.

Here, there's nothing. Those I was asking weren't even sure reprographics (a 10 minute walk away) could offer students any kind of service. They have to find local print shops in town. (I think there's one across a couple of roads from the library.) If I need to get something done it is, theoretically possible I'm told (I can see why no one's tried it), to send something off to reprographics for comb binding.

There is, it turns out, a little heat binding machine in a dark corner of cataloguing. It doesn't get much use someone said. I'm not surprised.