My favorite research resources, (in no particular order):

• The Internet
• Public libraries and archives
• OCR and how it allows for searchable databases of digitized old newspapers
• Librarians and archivists
• Microfilm readers which let you scan and save to file
• The flash drive
• Google
• Transcontinental jet travel
• Google Translate, Prompt, ABBYY Lingvo
• My library card(s) – can you ever have too many?
• The digital camera – my portable scanner
• The oversized computer monitor
• Progressive lens
• Email
• My Kobo e-reader and how it lets me read digitized rare books
• The printing press
• The spiral notebook
• Interlibrary loan
• The laptop
• The temporary limbo of the transit lounge, and the thoughts that come to you there