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What's the coolest thing your library has available to check out? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Inspired by me learning that I can check out solar panels (hiking sized, not house sized) at the library.

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[–] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

When I was in college, I found a hand-bound report from the Department of the Treasury, written in 1939, about the financial situation in Nanking during the Japanese occupation. I was writing a report about the Rape of Nanking for a history class, and I stumbled upon it while searching the university library.

I was shocked that it wasn't in their archives, and even more shocked that they let me check it out.