amy tech (bones)Boost if you still remember how to use these 😭
The Doctor@amy I love the smell of card catalogs. I'd love to get one of the cabinets to store stuff in if I ever get enough room.
Ramiro
Catherine is not complacent@amy oh Dewey, my first love.
bouriquet@CatDragon @amy Those are the work of the devil! Right ahead of microfiche and the periodicals indexes.
@bouriquet @amy oh no. It’s a beautiful system.
WandreCanada@amy I will never forget my Dewey Decimal System. Conan the Librarian only gives you one warning.
Johannes Hentschel@amy
I'm really sad I was born too late to know these. Or microfilm. But then again....
I'm really sad I was born too late to know these. Or microfilm. But then again....
@johentsch it's never too late to learn!
OtownKim@amy @johentsch Go to your Local Public Library. They have Microfilm
Carol Brownson@amy We got one when a local library got rid of them. It's perfect for storing bottles of wine.
@grimalkinUSA genuinely don't know how to feel about this 🤔
Deber1an 
@amy sounds about right :3
Ed Wilk antifascist
Mr. Techie 
@amy Yup classic 🤣
Ryan J. Yoder@amy is this like a spice rack or something?
Mystery Babylon 
@amy They smelled like information.
Core H. ☂️@amy The library I worked at didn't use those anymore. But I still had to learn how to write those little cards. To be able to keep the library running in case of a cyber attack or something. 😄
David Seidl@amy They make great nightstands! (If your parents are librarians, and you have salvaged drawers floating around, that is!)
PirateRo@amy the lack of keyword search! No hypertext links! No copy-paste!
It was all we had!
Lisa Hamilton@amy 1000x better than new google
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺the no-engine search
Scott Knowles@amy Did my research for MS thesis at University of Washington library card catalog. I was attending Western Washington University in Bellingham, 90 miles north of Seattle and UW campus. Every two weeks for most of a year I drove to UW library to spend the day, going through card catalog and looking up reference. I have photocopies of every article and parts of books cited in mt bibliography. Sadly the thesis imploded when my field research didn't get enough data. I ended up doing thesis on another subject while working for USGS. I did all my statistical calculations on a TI 58C calculator. Card catalogs were my best friend.
shaun@amy
I still have a zillion cards obsoleted by automation! I'll be using them as scratch paper forever. #Library #CardCatalog
I still have a zillion cards obsoleted by automation! I'll be using them as scratch paper forever. #Library #CardCatalog
@shaun this is a truly beautiful picture
Panoply of Malfeasance 🌺🌸🏳️⚧️@amy I can smell this picture.
GulfofMexico@amy I’m using one this week at the State Archives of North Carolina.
Steve Dunham@amy I remember it was ad free…
@dunhamsteve card catalogs have ads now?
Catherine McCarthy@amy Loved card catalogs. Browsing the typed alpha labels to find the right drawer, pulling it open, flipping through the cards, pulling out the recessed wooden writing surface with tiny pencil and scrap paper in hand, finding the card(s), jotting down the magical Dewey Decimal codes, then pushing the drawer closed and hearing that beautiful sound of it sliding on its rails and gracefully clicking closed. 🗄️✏️📝📚
AccordionBruce@cfmccarthy @amy
💯% quality #Unicode “use in sequence” #emoji work there 🤓
That’s what they’re hoping for when they look for a useful emoji
https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Selection_Factors_Sequences
@AccordionBruce @cfmccarthy oooooh you get the top score for nerdiest reply in my mentions in quite awhile!
Creating the #accordion 🪗 emoji on everyone’s phone is my A+ nerd party trick
Have to tell people to ask me to stop talking about emoji if they want me to 🤭
I’m helpless with these obsessions, but understanding
Magnus Ahltorp@cfmccarthy @amy Still upset that many Swedish libraries have either converted or are converting to the Dewey Decimal system. The old Swedish system is much more cosy and logical, with its alphabetical codes instead of the cold, impersonal decimal codes.
wlf_warren@amy lol been a while, some still have, and most are on compu w/ access and search engines to find what you are looking for or an assistant can get there quickly 😁👍
Part of a person who went to college in
( library science LS ) to become a librarian, learning how those index cards worked!
Molly B@amy Use them? I used to type cards for them. On an IBM Selectric with a card platen!
@amy (... later, after library school, I was a cataloger, but by then we were using computers 😄)
@mjibrower ooo I liked the selectric!
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️@amy
When we used these to find a source of information we cited the source we found we did not say "look what I found in the card catalogue".
When we used these to find a source of information we cited the source we found we did not say "look what I found in the card catalogue".
Maddie (MIGRATING SOON)@amy to me this looks like a liminal space
Cardboard Robot@amy @Elledeeay Are you kidding? I didn’t know how to use them back then! :)
Elledeeay@CardboardRobot @amy It’s fuzzy but I do remember using them at my local library once upon a time.
Anthony Sorace
Ekynos@amy Luhmann's Zettelkasten Ultras
Eric Lawton
Ghostbusters Library Index Card and Entrance Theme
Cédric Levasseur@amy what is this 🤔 ?
hetoug@amy I had a part in writing the system that printed those cards and other catalogues in Denmark back in the '80s. Weird database beneath it, with numbered fields - 100a was the field for the displayable title, and another 100 field was for sorting, 245 for author. Horribly complex.
Timothy Wolodzko@amy Imagine that when you open each of those drawers, on top of the cards there would always be an ad, plus you would need to solve a crossword puzzle to prove you're human to use it...
Mike Nelson Pedde@amy Dewey Decimal and all... 📚
Chtixof 🦊🚲🌻🐝
James Lees@amy I dont remember how do, I'll ask Gemini
Robin Capper@amy yes, but I don't miss the arcane Dewey Decimal System
Skivling
T0ha@amy I even worked in the library when I was a bachelor student 😂
Stephen Cook@amy
When my mum got her 1st job as a trainee librarian (Senate House Library, University of London), she was in awe of the fierce senior cataloguer, who had the authority to decide how each new acquisition should be classified.
When my mum got her 1st job as a trainee librarian (Senate House Library, University of London), she was in awe of the fierce senior cataloguer, who had the authority to decide how each new acquisition should be classified.
Lil Meow MeowBarely but loved the smell and feel of the cards, and the aesthetics of the drawers.