Missouri Valley Room

[david nicol]

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 10:02, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> (How to find a specific book using the KCPL on-line catalog, as taught at
> the Plaza branch:
> Enter subject keywords and locate any similar book's call number.  Go to the
> shelves and locate that call number, then proceeded to search the shelves.
> This is far more likely to yield the book you're looking for than trying to
> actually locate it in the catalog.)

Nocholson Baker's book of essays (... brain timed out on title search)
includes a long rant about card catalogs going away, including stories
of at least one library that kept their catalog, catalogging it as a
reference work.

-- 
David Nicol, independent consultant and contractor
                                                   Steve Jobs in 2004