Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sleek, new computer terminals have entirely replaced the wooden card catalogs in the two principal undergraduate libraries--Lamont and Hilles--and even Widener's old-fashioned card catalogs will become more and more obsolete as all new acquisitions go directly into the new computer system. HOLLIS, which library officials describe as "absolutely state of the art," also subsumes the microfiche-based Distributable Union Catalog, which listed all library acquisitions since...
Librarians already anticipate overcrowding. "From what I hear, there will never be enough of these things," says a reference librarian at Widener. The eight Widener terminals will eventually be supplemented by an additional 12 machines and moved to a permanent location in the area where the wooden card catalogs currently stand...
Sleek, new computer terminals have entirely replaced the wooden card catalogs in the two principal undergraduate libraries--Lamont and Hilles--and even Widener's old-fashioned card catalogs will become more and more obsolete as all new acquisitions go directly into the new computer system. HOLLIS, which library officials describe as "absolutely state of the art," also subsumes the microfiche-based Distributable Union Catalog, which listed all library acquisitions since...
Librarians already anticipate overcrowding. "From what I hear, there will never be enough of these things," says a reference librarian at Widener. The eight Widener terminals will eventually be supplemented by an additional 12 machines and moved to a permanent location in the area where the wooden card catalogs currently stand...
...Columbia University: "Congestion can play an important role in the life and death of a city." When Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt, a former U.S. Transportation Secretary, got caught in a traffic jam in Seattle, he took the occasion to get out of his car and pass out his card to other stranded motorists, extending a tongue-in-cheek invitation to move to his less-crowded state...