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.

10/23/2010 12:42:20 AM

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

*raises hand*

10/23/2010 12:48:07 AM

yeah i remember having to learn this stupid thing too

10/23/2010 12:50:02 AM

duh

i was a library assistant in 5th grade

10/23/2010 12:50:09 AM

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

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

yea my library in elem school had a comp but also still the card catalog too

10/23/2010 12:55:41 AM

FACT: TWW was once organized according to the Dewey Decimal System.

10/23/2010 1:57:12 AM

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

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

I, too, was born before computers made it into libraries.

10/23/2010 11:34:40 AM

I too remember card catalogs

10/23/2010 11:35:50 AM

I remember them and I used them in highschool.

10/23/2010 11:38:00 AM

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

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

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

DON'T YOU KNOW THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM?!?!?!



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10/23/2010 12:25:43 PM

^ 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

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

i once ate an entire card catalog

10/23/2010 1:46:18 PM

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