I miss card catalogs. For whatever reason it was easier for me to track stuff down paging through one card at a time than calling up a web page with a million options on it. Plus, the visceral feel of handling the drawers and cards was nice.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 29, 2013 6:02:00 am PST #20333 of 28348
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
DavidS - Jan 29, 2013 6:16:01 am PST #20334 of 28348
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Concur with you both. I always enjoyed - particularly at college - looking through the card stamps and seeing a friend read that book a couple years previously. And learning how to use the card catalog gave me a sense of mastery at an early age. I knew how to find things at the library without asking. And I used it a lot.
Polter-Cow - Jan 29, 2013 7:01:15 am PST #20335 of 28348
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I've finished Cold Kiss and Glass Heart! Oh, hookers and blow. I don't even remember how that got started.
Also, I'm fifty pages into Redshirts and loving it so far.
Liese S. - Jan 29, 2013 8:04:54 am PST #20336 of 28348
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, yeah, the day I learned to use the card catalog was a Good Day. As was the day I worked out that the "adult" section was not actually an enforced security area.
javachik - Jan 29, 2013 9:14:29 am PST #20337 of 28348
Our wings are not tired.
Oh, yeah, the day I learned to use the card catalog was a Good Day. As was the day I worked out that the "adult" section was not actually an enforced security area.
When it is, you can just wear your invisibility cloak!!
AHAHAHAHAHAA my first ever Harry Potter allusion. /HPnewbies4evah
Polter-Cow - Jan 29, 2013 9:16:01 am PST #20338 of 28348
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
One of us!
erikaj - Jan 29, 2013 9:55:16 am PST #20339 of 28348
Always Anti-fascist!
I feel sad about the Barnes & Noble closings...I like the one in my neighborhood, even though I haven't been in for months.
DavidS - Jan 29, 2013 10:55:23 am PST #20340 of 28348
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I feel sad about the Barnes & Noble closings...
Every bookstore closing is a like a stab to my heart. But I'll be really bummed if the B&N in El Cerrito closes, since that's chiefly where I cool my heels when Emmett's got baseball practice.
erikaj - Jan 29, 2013 10:59:52 am PST #20341 of 28348
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
Kat - Jan 29, 2013 11:12:24 am PST #20342 of 28348
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I miss card catalogs. For whatever reason it was easier for me to track stuff down paging through one card at a time than calling up a web page with a million options on it. Plus, the visceral feel of handling the drawers and cards was nice.
ITA with this. Granted, this marks me Of An Age... but I love card catalogs. At SF Public Library, they used to have an art installation of those cards.
I have a 4 drawer card catalog wood box at home. I want to use it for something, but can't think of what. To store wine, maybe?