[WEB4LIB] Re: Please help SLJ: Milestones in Library

[Sloan, Bernie]

I remember the McBee cards being used in the central circulation department
at the University of Illinois Library in 1974.

And I remember using a high speed microfilm reader in 1975 to search a
microfilmed version of the card catalog of the University of Illinois, even
though I was over a hundred miles away from the UI. I remember marveling at
that!!   :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Drew [mailto:drewwe at MORRISVILLE.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 3:53 PM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Please help SLJ: Milestones in Library


What about McBee cards?  I also remember seeing a "database" based on cards
similar to McBee cards that one searched by using  a needle to pull out
related items.  It was in the Engineering Library at Cornell in 1983 when I
worked there as a circulation clerk.  How about the typewriter?

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Bill Drew ; Associate Librarian (Systems, Reference)
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