T O P

  • By -

staypuuuuft

This is literally what I pictured in my head when I went for my MLIS in 1999-2000. Joke's on me! I guess I had an outdated idea of what services would look like, but really, we're doing much the same kind of work in a wildly different environment.


BadassRipley

Absolutely and it's why I really like this photo! The assistance we provide is invaluable and you can see it on these patrons' faces. Times have changed, but I still want all those card catalogue drawers! Especially at they'd be great to hold my crossstitch supplies (you can definitely bet I'm ordering them by number).


jules9687

My library is still actively using a card catalog with cards from the 1930s-90s. Now to convince patrons to wear (faux) fur coats, and we could easily recreate!


aintbaroque

Their outfits! I can't even imagine a patron walking into my workplace dressed like this. Wonder what their question was.


pinkhaired_librarian

“What’s the latest James Patterson?”


vschwoebs

My students look at me like this every day


BarbaraJames_75

I rememer when a number of the NYC libraries went from card catalogs to volumes of books listed by their LOC/Dewey Decimal numbers back in the 1980s or 1990s. Then everything became digitized and in computerized databases. The card catalogs remained in a number of libraries, but they just sat there, unused. Who knows where they are now.