Word: cataloger
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Ronald Dunham -- street name Strike -- is their foreman. Or scoutmaster, or baby-sitter; one of his clockers, Horace, 13, spends his time leafing wistfully through a catalog of kids' toys. Strike is only 19 himself, a scrawny fellow with a stutter and a bleeding ulcer that he treats with vanilla Yoo-Hoo. But he's smart; smart enough to know not to wear gold, not to trust anyone, not to get greedy and not to do product, because cocaine messes you up. He has $21,000 in cash stored around town, and he tells himself that this is his leaving...
Attention, catalog shoppers: No new sales taxes. For now. Thrifty consumers who bought more than $183 billion worth of merchandise by mail last year welcomed last week's Supreme Court decision not to allow state taxation of out-of-state mail-order sales. But in rebuffing North Dakota's effort to collect a use tax from the Quill Corp. of Lincolnshire, Ill., the nation's largest mail-order office-product supplier, the high court punted the issue back to Congress and cleared the way for future legislative action authorizing states to impose use taxes on out-of-state consumers...
Through a "recon," or "retrospective conversion," project, De Gennaro hopes to move all of the library's listings from the card catalog to the HOLLS database. Currently, only about one-third of Widener's holdings are on HOLLIS, he says...
...many faculty members also say the removal of books from the stacks will mean an end to browsing, and a further limit to resource accessibility. By wandering through the stacks, they say, scholars can find sources they wouldn't otherwise locate on an on-line catalog system...
...will not be long before under-graduates intheir rooms and faculty in their offices can tapinto the [library] card catalog and a whole rangeof information," says Rudenstine.Crimson File PhotoStudents at work in the current ScienceCenter computer room...