Thanks, Igor Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dan, > > What is the "library card catalog"? ;-) > Does it have Ctrl-F in it or can you just google it? ;-) > :D > > It sounds along the lines of "LP records", "DIALING a phone", > "TAPING a conversation/interview", ... > > Actually, many science students (including graduate ones), when asked to do > a literature search start with googling first, instead of going to a > dedicated bibliographic engine, like Web of Science or INSPEC. > (And, unfortunately, some even stop there...) > > But, on another hand, the fuzzy search implemented by Google, sometimes > helps finding some results based on vague information. > > Around 1992-1993, I heard this story from a friend-librarian. She saw some > inter-library request form that went through a bunch of major international > libraries (in the US and Europe) without much of success: they couldn't find > the source requested. At the Russian State Library (the national library > located in Moscow, that used to be called "Lenin State Public library of the > USSR"), which by the function is similar to the US Library of Congres in the > US, they found the source. The reason for success was that in 1992-1993, > they were still using manual catalog search in Moscow, and the human > essentially performed a "fuzzy search", while the computer-based catalog > searches performed at other major libraries in the world failed. > > BTW, I had fun looking at your photo. > > Igor > > > > > Daniel J. Matyola Sat, 02 Jan 2016 07:32:57 -0800 wrote: > > The "Cabinet of Mysteries" in my earlier PESO was indeed a library > card catalog cabinet, as Paul and others noted. It was were all > research was done, back before library books became computerized. The > one in my PESO is a relic, saved and now used to catalog the back > issues of The Daily Dartmouth, the student newspaper of my alma mater, > which is America's oldest college newspaper, published continuously > since August 27, 1799. > > > In my day, the main hall of Baker Library at Dartmouth was crammed > with hundreds of these cabinets, all overflowing with index cards > containing information on the more than 1,000,000 volumes kept in the > stacks and special collections. I spent many hours searching through > the cards, especially when working on my thesis. > > This is what that main hall looks like today: > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18151516 > > To me, it appears almost vacant, compared to the days when one could > hardly move between the catalog card cabinets. > > Most young people today would have no idea how to use a library card > catalog. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
