Re: card catalog
[email protected]
In a message dated 7/6/2005 7:56:22 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
So, Connie, are you saying I should get OVER it? NEVER. I want my card
catalog back!! I MISS it!
-pam
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Oh, no, I'm not saying that Pam!!! I guess I'm saying we have to accept
change, but that doesn't mean we can't miss what used to be --- I too loved the
card catalog. I've never been a speller - so I often "needed" to search
through LOTS of cards to find what I was looking for, and what treasures I would
find while doing that.
But, then, I now LOVE being able to go to the library website and request
books that I want from other branches and then I get an e-mail lets me know when
they are at my local library.
But----I doubt if any of us will get our card catalogs back --- so you don't
have to get over it, but maybe just accept it! :-)
Connie
www.homeschoolingreflections.com
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[email protected] writes:
So, Connie, are you saying I should get OVER it? NEVER. I want my card
catalog back!! I MISS it!
-pam
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Oh, no, I'm not saying that Pam!!! I guess I'm saying we have to accept
change, but that doesn't mean we can't miss what used to be --- I too loved the
card catalog. I've never been a speller - so I often "needed" to search
through LOTS of cards to find what I was looking for, and what treasures I would
find while doing that.
But, then, I now LOVE being able to go to the library website and request
books that I want from other branches and then I get an e-mail lets me know when
they are at my local library.
But----I doubt if any of us will get our card catalogs back --- so you don't
have to get over it, but maybe just accept it! :-)
Connie
www.homeschoolingreflections.com
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[email protected]
Yeah, I know I'm slow. :) But I couldn't resist the topic.
My older kids (now 27 and 20) learned how to use a card catalog, my younger
kids (13) have never seen one in action that they can remember- our local
library retired theirs 9 years ago. I was so bummed about it at the time that I
almost bought one of the cabinets solely for the sake of nostalgia. I still miss
them in many ways - no more serendipitous finds while riffling through a
drawer, and subject searches seem much harder to me, I still can't scan screens as
fast or as easily as I had learned to scan cards. But I wouldn't willingly
give up the computer catalogs at this point. I can search the holdings of not
only my own library but 26 other libraries in the same cooperative system, and
put books on hold from any of them from my home. At midnight. On Sunday. <g> I
can keep the catalog page open as I read unschooling lists so I can quickly
find and order recommended books without having to try to remember titles or
write myself a note I'll forget to take to the library with me. I can search the
holdings of every single library in the state of Illinois and send an email to
my reference librarian requesting an interlibrary loan, right here from my
comfy chair, and it will show up at my library with my name on it usually within
a few days. What luxury!
My 13 year olds don't know how to use card catalogs, but they do know how to
do computer catalog searches very well. AND they both memorized their 14 digit
library card codes in order to place to their own reserves by the time they
were 9. :)
Someone mentioned browsing other's selections on the reserve shelf - you
couldn't do that here. The one local library that puts reserves out on a public
shelf for pickup wraps the whole book in white paper before labeling it with the
patron's name. I guess someone complained about privacy...
Deborah in IL
My older kids (now 27 and 20) learned how to use a card catalog, my younger
kids (13) have never seen one in action that they can remember- our local
library retired theirs 9 years ago. I was so bummed about it at the time that I
almost bought one of the cabinets solely for the sake of nostalgia. I still miss
them in many ways - no more serendipitous finds while riffling through a
drawer, and subject searches seem much harder to me, I still can't scan screens as
fast or as easily as I had learned to scan cards. But I wouldn't willingly
give up the computer catalogs at this point. I can search the holdings of not
only my own library but 26 other libraries in the same cooperative system, and
put books on hold from any of them from my home. At midnight. On Sunday. <g> I
can keep the catalog page open as I read unschooling lists so I can quickly
find and order recommended books without having to try to remember titles or
write myself a note I'll forget to take to the library with me. I can search the
holdings of every single library in the state of Illinois and send an email to
my reference librarian requesting an interlibrary loan, right here from my
comfy chair, and it will show up at my library with my name on it usually within
a few days. What luxury!
My 13 year olds don't know how to use card catalogs, but they do know how to
do computer catalog searches very well. AND they both memorized their 14 digit
library card codes in order to place to their own reserves by the time they
were 9. :)
Someone mentioned browsing other's selections on the reserve shelf - you
couldn't do that here. The one local library that puts reserves out on a public
shelf for pickup wraps the whole book in white paper before labeling it with the
patron's name. I guess someone complained about privacy...
Deborah in IL