Str8BacardiL ************ 41752 Posts user info edit post |
My elementary school had them and made us learn how to use them in kindergarten and first grade, then promptly trashed them and replaced with a monochrome, command based, computer system.
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BridgetSPK #1 Sir Purr Fan 31378 Posts user info edit post |
Hell yeah, I remember card catalogs. That would actually be kinda a cool thing in your house. I dunno what you'd put in all those little drawers, but it would still be cool. 10/23/2010 12:48:03 AM |
wolfpack2105 All American 12428 Posts user info edit post |
*raises hand* 10/23/2010 12:48:07 AM |
JTMONEYNCSU All American 24529 Posts user info edit post |
yeah i remember having to learn this stupid thing too 10/23/2010 12:50:02 AM |
khcadwal All American 35165 Posts user info edit post |
duh
i was a library assistant in 5th grade 10/23/2010 12:50:09 AM |
Big4Country All American 11907 Posts user info edit post |
I remember them in grade school in the 80s before everything turned into computer programs and the internet. 10/23/2010 12:50:43 AM |
ThePeter TWW CHAMPION 37709 Posts user info edit post |
Of course. My schools probably had these stupid things way longer than computers could replace them all too, but I remember high school had computers. 10/23/2010 12:53:18 AM |
khcadwal All American 35165 Posts user info edit post |
yea my library in elem school had a comp but also still the card catalog too 10/23/2010 12:55:41 AM |
BIGcementpon Status Name 11318 Posts user info edit post |
FACT: TWW was once organized according to the Dewey Decimal System. 10/23/2010 1:57:12 AM |
wwwebsurfer All American 10217 Posts user info edit post |
I'd pay for one of these.
I'd pack those little drawers with the bazillion nick-nacks in my a/v and network bags. 10/23/2010 2:04:01 AM |
Str8BacardiL ************ 41752 Posts user info edit post |
If I could go back I would put adult themed playing cards at random places in the card file. 10/23/2010 11:31:46 AM |
GeniuSxBoY Suspended 16786 Posts user info edit post |
I, too, was born before computers made it into libraries. 10/23/2010 11:34:40 AM |
kiljadn All American 44689 Posts user info edit post |
I too remember card catalogs 10/23/2010 11:35:50 AM |
punchmonk Double Entendre 22300 Posts user info edit post |
I remember them and I used them in highschool. 10/23/2010 11:38:00 AM |
indy All American 3624 Posts user info edit post |
The world has truly lost something very important as we move to a mostly paperless society.
paper > computer screen
That is all. 10/23/2010 11:39:56 AM |
Mindstorm All American 15858 Posts user info edit post |
I remember learning it in elementary school and having to use it at the public library a couple times. By the time I got to middle school I think everything they had was digital. The librarian at the elementary school had a computer and could help you find books, though. The library was in a similar boat at that point, IIRC, but it was easier to use the card system. 10/23/2010 11:45:03 AM |
qntmfred retired 40598 Posts user info edit post |
I remember when the town of Cary Library first got computer catalogs (think green screen (they were otange though) terminal interfaces) and every time we went I would spend more time looking through the computer catalogs than looking at books 10/23/2010 12:21:15 PM |
Smath74 All American 93278 Posts user info edit post |
DON'T YOU KNOW THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM?!?!?!
[Edited on October 23, 2010 at 12:26 PM. Reason : ] 10/23/2010 12:25:43 PM |
Mindstorm All American 15858 Posts user info edit post |
^ I remember those. I think they had both of the systems in place and those catalog computers were always busy. Maybe that's what I'm thinking of.
It was a really long time ago when I used to go to the library and I generally don't do it any more. I kind of like owning the books and having a collection. 10/23/2010 12:26:50 PM |
richthofen All American 15758 Posts user info edit post |
I had to use them at school; I don't recall my elementary/middle school ever having terminals for students to use. I think if you couldn't find it in the catalog yourself, you had to go to the circulation desk and ask a librarian.
The public library in Greensboro got the terminals pretty early, probably mid 80's--green-screen VT dumb terminals hooked up to a mainframe. I think they were still using those when I left for college in '98--but at that time unless I've got things mixed up in my head, the system in DH Hill was the same way except the terminals were orange-screen. 10/23/2010 1:28:43 PM |
marko Tom Joad 72824 Posts user info edit post |
i once ate an entire card catalog 10/23/2010 1:46:18 PM |
arghx Deucefest '04 7584 Posts user info edit post |
we had a card catalog in my elementary school library, but the public library had already switched to electronic when I was little. 10/23/2010 1:49:26 PM |