Makes me feel Old. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Library System worked like this when I was an undergraduate.
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Replying to @Meaningness @willbuckingham
As a young scientist, I just search with
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Replying to @joogipupu @willbuckingham
I have no sense of nostalgia for card catalogs. They were a total pain in the butt.
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Even when you were sure the library must have book X, it was often impossible to find, because first you had to >
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guess what it would have been classified under, and then guess at where the card was, and then go find it on >
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the shelf. And often the card was in an obscure place, or an outright wrong place, or simply missing.
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If you did locate the card, there was still only about a 75% chance the book would be where the card said it was.
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I don’t know how anyone got anything done.
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Replying to @Meaningness @joogipupu
They just ended up getting different things done from the things they expected....
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Replying to @willbuckingham @joogipupu
Yes… I admit the serendipity was often valuable & enjoyable… and now you get that with google search too…
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Not to mention https://xkcd.com/214/ pic.twitter.com/quqjGqhw5f
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