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In reply to the discussion: Ok, age check, who remembers? [View all]gvstn
(2,805 posts)66. It is a little late since most have been bought up already
But you can bring a little nostalgia home:
Link: http://www.homestoriesatoz.com/decorating/two-toned-dresser-makeover.html
Or another that looks nice:
Link: http://dishfunctionaldesigns.blogspot.com/2012/01/vintage-library-card-catalogs.html
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i typed all those cards four to five per item for 25 years after teaching all day to help my
roguevalley
Mar 2014
#240
I got a lot of them in electronic form since I have nowhere to put them
nadinbrzezinski
Mar 2014
#15
It's also easier when you move too! We just moved enough books to sink the Titanic. And then
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#228
The Dewey Decimal system is still the system of organization in libraries, of course.
maddiemom
Mar 2014
#102
I've still got mine, but fell in love with TI's SR-10 when it came out. I still have it someplace.
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#18
"Thanks for lending me your calculator. Now where's the @#%$* equal sign, smartass???"
GliderGuider
Mar 2014
#282
It was similar at the Library of Congress. I used to get a bunch of stuff at one time, so
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#26
That makes good sense, of course, but it kind of takes the mystery of touch out of it ... n/t
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#48
OMG, so many times I typed a stupid page over again because of too many mistakes. n/t
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#37
My dad did the same. I was in the sciences in high school and was headed off to
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#225
I used to manage to smear the carbon onto my fingers and somehow ever so gracefully smear
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#202
Yeah, it was a state of the art typewriter, and then Xerox and white out came out
Cleita
Mar 2014
#217
I had one of those as a portable, a manual Smith Corona typewriter. Was I ever glad
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#233
Well yeah, that too. Too brief to qualify as a "high," however. The ink remover thing
maddiemom
Mar 2014
#205
Journalists used Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature for double super secret background research
Brother Buzz
Mar 2014
#16
I spent years sitting on the floor or standing in libraries at home and overseas
malaise
Mar 2014
#24
LOL, I discovered that when I first found DU. All the weird kids got together! And I said
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#238
Money for funding libraries is disappearing. Budget cuts have caused our library to
Cleita
Mar 2014
#42
Beautiful! Those pictures brought back so many memories of my days at the LC as a student. n/t
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#43
I lived in D.C. for years in my youth. I've been to many places. Somehow, in my youth, I
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#84
Will we ever be allowed to build anything this beautiful again? It's OK to spend trillions
Dark n Stormy Knight
Mar 2014
#270
I was born in 1983 but depended on prehistoric googling for my MA thesis.
Democracyinkind
Mar 2014
#31
I wonder if eons from today DU will be a prehistoric find to savor, lol. Yes, I agree
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#71
Haha, my college library had two floors Dewey Decimal and two floors Library of Congress!
Sancho
Mar 2014
#55
I miss the card catalogs. Finding a book was so quick and easy. Not so any more.
Paper Roses
Mar 2014
#60
OOo Dewy decimal and LCC woot woot...did my undergraduate thesis research at LC
Drew Richards
Mar 2014
#92
And how. I actually rather enjoyed filing back when I was younger. But not now.
JDPriestly
Mar 2014
#98
Our state historical library still has a card catalog in addition to the digital search.
Sognefjord
Mar 2014
#103
H.G. Wells had the right idea about pathogens imagine any alien or human exposed to alien pathogens.
gordianot
Mar 2014
#183
Even if an alien culture were able able to travel here strong odds are we are toxic.
gordianot
Mar 2014
#186
We used to get lots of mystery meet with brown gravy on it, with a side dish of
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#236
We used to get something else about once per week. I guess it was some kind of
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#288
Not only do I remember those, but despite not having used it in years, I still recall 920
ET Awful
Mar 2014
#122
I'm old enough to remember all the things mentioned in this thread so far, but I don't get the color
kath
Mar 2014
#271
I constructed and produced (read: typed) catalogue cards as cataloger in the 70's.
No Vested Interest
Mar 2014
#171
No need for envy - the pay wasn't that great. - just pin money really.
No Vested Interest
Mar 2014
#175
I bought one of those...lol. It's been sitting in my cellar for about 10 years while I try to
seaglass
Mar 2014
#173
I remember those, carbon paper, manual typewriters, real ink pens: the age of paper
northoftheborder
Mar 2014
#193
I feel sorry for all the people who never had to go through those catalogs to hunt down
Baitball Blogger
Mar 2014
#229
Ahhhhh, the smell of fresh mimeographed copies!!! I still remember well in grade school, we
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#234
The card catalog was digital by the time I was using it, but I still made much use of the library...
Hippo_Tron
Mar 2014
#242
You know, I am almost 50 and I find the new way of googling so much more efficient
tandot
Mar 2014
#256
Microfiche, 8mm movies, slide projectors, dittos and transparency overheads. I remember them all
Nanjing to Seoul
Mar 2014
#260
Yes, that's how I got through college. That, and reading the Congressional Record in the library
R B Garr
Mar 2014
#272
I wasn't born yet!!!! But seriously, finding the book I want on a computer just doesn't compare.
DesertDiamond
Mar 2014
#273