Word: woodenness
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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...
...everything is hotter here; the summers are warmer, the people more hot-blooded, and the local food has a garlicky tang far removed from the cool elegance of sushi. Korean pride is no less full of flavor. One of the most elegant museums in the city, approached through solemn wooden gates, is devoted not to Buddhist statuary, or to modern painting, or even to Korean celadon, but simply to the country's spiciest national treasure: pickled vegetables, or kimchi...
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...