How not to disappear in the stacks - step 1

I have been reading an enormous amount of Wallace Stegner in the past year - mostly because I never read him much before and there was so much catching up to do. There is an essay of his in a hard to find anthology that I'll be reading while in Fairbanks this summer (thanks to the lovely UAF library). Stegner does not technically apply much at all to writing about Alaska but he applies in every way to writing about the west. He also makes me think about the changing idea of the frontier and I can only imagine what he would think of all the reality programs about Alaska on the air today.

My notebook is filled with items I am searching for at UAF but Stegner is at the top of the list; Stegner is who grounds me so I don't get lost.