Link+ should work just fine; it’s a form of ILL, but patron-originated, very convenient and within a regional group–but it’s a big regional group (including Cal State campuses, U. Nevada, a bunch of private colleges, many big public libraries and at least portions of UC)! I just have to start using it…

Also, if Link+ doesn’t work out for you, you might want to look into this service you may have heard of called interlibrary loan. . . .

Thanks for the correction. Realistically, at Livermore (and I’d guess most public libraries), that means 813.54 is for litcrit, since novels are in Fiction.

Yes, I looked for all of them in LPL’s catalog–I haven’t actually looked at the shelves yet (813.54 showed up in a couple of author-search listings). That’s how I know LPL doesn’t have any Perelman or Fister–but that Link+ has 72 Perelman and a bunch of Fister, so I can get them from the extended network.

Interesting that most of the group I named have also been active in motion pictures, in one way or another…

And yes, I’ve read some of the stuff by Benchley’s sons.

Here is a guide to the three digit version of Dewey courtesy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Chmapaign (my LIS alma mater): http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/about/dewey.html

I am assuming you looked for Perelman in the catalog. I grew up reading him partly because he was in college with my maternal grandfather, and also appeared regularly in the alumni magazine.

Thurber and Benchley are great, and Benchley’s sons have done some good things as well. Nathaniel and Peter are the sons. (Jaws [the book] was at least as gripping as the movie.)Maybe it is my Nantucket experiences that made be find The Off-Islanders so funny.

And…just for your info, the period tables for American Literature have 20th century in “.5″ with “.52″ used for 1900-1945, “54″ used for 1945 – 1999, and “.6″ for 2000+.