Prehistoric googling

[left-of-center2012]

[ZenDem]

1. Wow...I was just talking about card catalogs with someone...

I still remember the sound they made when you pulled them out. And the smell. Loved flipping through the cards searching for exactly what you wanted. The experience of finding something different...loved all of it. Coming home with a stack of "new" books...

[AllaN01Bear]

2. i had better luck rumaging through the stacks than going through the card catalogs .

[multigraincracker]

3. I love my antique 36 drawer

library oak card file in my living room. GF was kind enough to label every drawer too.
❤️

[Brother Buzz]

6. My brother, a retired librarian, snagged a really clean one your size, with the detachable base

Exquisite quarter sawn white oak. He repurposed it for his baseball card collection. For years he gave everyone bundles of the used index cards for notes. He even made everyone little oak index card boxes to park next to the telephone.

[multigraincracker]

7. We also have a very large glass door

Bookcase that came out of an old library in in Central Ohio.

[Baked Potato]

4. Is that museum open?

[Brother Buzz]

5. When I think of prehistoric googling, I think of this

[csziggy]

9. I've got that one and a couple of the ones that followed!

They had a lot of info in them for those looking at alternate lifestyles.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I loved the old card catalogs.

Every time I'd search for something, I'd stumble across some other interesting book. That doesn't happen the same way any more.

[csziggy]

10. Thanks for making me feel really really old

When I graduated from Library Science School, that was the only way to look up books. The only job in my field was a temporary position as the first computer cataloger (the person who made those cards) at the university library. I didn't take the job - as a temporary position, there was no time off and my husband and I had planned our honeymoon trip to San Francisco. Plus, I had never worked on computers at all and was worried I would fail miserably.

Now I know I probably would have been good at it but as a result of turning down that job, my life was completely different.