Ham on WryI’m, ‘You had to look up the library book you wanted on tiny paper file cards’ years old.
Steven Molnar@HamonWry "Had to"? There was a pleasure to that act that no computer can ever replace.
Polly Waugh@HamonWry
I used to LOVE going to the library to do research & dig through those little cards.
I used to LOVE going to the library to do research & dig through those little cards.
parodymandotcom@HamonWry ALL MUST RESPECT THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM
@RexUngericht @HamonWry There was a craze in America for the Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth at the time Dewey was born, so his full name is Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey. I think that makes his system the earliest form of Hungarian notation.
Littles 😈 Verified by the Boss
Patricklee@HamonWry then there was the microfiche for the ambitious.
JHaworthMy first real job was filing those cards... 😁😂
Melissa BearTrix 🏳️⚧️@HamonWry I did, I have many sets of those draws, the dewey decimal system rules ... I used to spend every day in the library when I was at school, I could always find a nice safe spot to hide from the bullies ... libraries rule ... Librarians are the best
Cathy Gurski@HamonWry And they say you can't smell a picture...
Macer@HamonWry Like an animal.
Julian West🦞@HamonWry Right next to "The Readers Guide to Periodical Literature".
One World One People@lobsterofrevenge @HamonWry TWW-Study: Expression is a gift that everyone has been given. The results are there for you to learn from. *I’m with you on the GPL that was the fastest report writing path. OWOP
Shaula Walko@HamonWry Right?! I’m ‘The librarian would stamp the due date on a card and stuff the card in the envelope pasted inside the book’ years old. 😂
Justin Derrick@shaulawalko @HamonWry My favourite was checking out a library book in the mid 80’s that had last been checked out in 1969. It had been sitting on that shelf waiting for me since before I was born. It was on the history of explosives, and if you read the whole thing, contained enough clues for you to be able to make various old school explosives. It led to a rather serious conversation with my high school chemistry teacher after I asked about titrating acids.
@JustinDerrick @HamonWry I love that story. Some of those old books are real treasures.
ijk64✅@HamonWry I used these all the time but I always ended up in 621 anyway.
InfiniteOne@HamonWry The memories of actually having to invest effort in attaining knowledge. 🤣
Mathijs
Ciara@HamonWry I loved doing that. I miss doing it! It was such a tacticle and personal way of seeking something. I can hear the sound of the flicking, just looking at the photo.
Siggi Bjarnason 🤠
Tom Walker@HamonWry I am of a very particular age where the only time I ever had to do this was in Monkey Island 2
beingextorted@HamonWry
Yeah, I remember those because I'm 'inkwell on the desk/"don't you dare count on your fingers--use your slide rule!"' eons old.
Yeah, I remember those because I'm 'inkwell on the desk/"don't you dare count on your fingers--use your slide rule!"' eons old.
Space Froggy 
@HamonWry I kinda miss this. Standing at the card catalogue, noticing the cute Nerd to my left searching for a book, our eyes lock, yes, another cool Nerd in the world. The library is our mothership.
@HamonWry I'm "My kids couldn't even identify the object in your picture or what it was used for" years old.
I hope your back is ok this morning. Or your knee, it's always something. 😂
MikeZilla Minus One@HamonWry i have several of those card cabinets in my garage- excellent for odds and ends
Michael Porter@HamonWry @aprilfollies E-books will never replace the smell of a library…
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Ha me too!
Ha me too!
Scott Knowles@HamonWry I did all of my masters degree thesis research using University of Washington library. It was huge with whole area filled with indexes of journals issued monthly to quarterly and annually. I was going to Western Washington University in Bellingham and drove down almosr every week with list of references to find in the library card catalog. UW library was huge. I'd find the source, copy it (articles). I still have those boxes of copies.
Lstn2urmama 🇨🇦@HamonWry Index cards that many of us used to have to make and categorize in the system that now bothers that I cannot remember it...guess 60 yrs will do that to one...
@HamonWry The Dewey Decimal System...took me long enough !
Shannon ClarkAnd sometimes you discovered when you asked for the book that those cards were not entirely right.
(I found a map in a book in a rare book collection doing research in college that the cars catalogue didn’t mention the book contained. Which also meant that few references about that book new about the map. To clarify this was a book printed in the 1500’s so not a lot of copies in any collection anywhere)
Harp@HamonWry my grandmother used to be a head librarian and had fond stories of these
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply 
@HamonWry a photo like this brings about visceral feelings. I remember sorting through those cards. They were often hand-typed because they were ages old, even then. And they smelled like old books. Really good stuff.