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Fuck I feel old. Like, really old.
I remember what these things smelled like. The paper cards and the wooden drawers had a distinct smell.
Fucking wild.
I actually don’t know, but I gather it’s a sort of standardized filing system
Yes, it has a card for every book that usually has the title, author, subject, publication date, and Dewey Decimal number of the book. Then you could use the Dewey Decimal number to find where it would be on the library shelves.
Thing not commonly used for like 30 years now considered old, shocking
Closer to like 15-20 years. You’re way overestimating the budget of a typical public or school library. Like I went to a primary school which was fully rebuilt after the year 2000, and we were still using this filing system in the library. Although I think it was more them refusing to approve overtime for digitizing the old catalog.
