[Web4lib] [request for assistance] : materials and anecdotes needed for awalk down library technology's memory lane...

[Michael]

http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2007/02/youtube_web_20_.html

This video (not mine, linked to) would provide some context and perhaps
images for this project. If I were teaching this class, we might begin the
semester or quarter by viewing this, and discussing it. I'm just saying
:)...

Good luck with your project...

Take care,
DrWeb

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Roy Tennant <tennantr at oclc.org> wrote:

> Posted on behalf of Marc Truitt, <marc.truitt at ualberta.ca>.
> Roy
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [request for assistance] : materials and anecdotes needed for a
> walk down library technology's memory lane...
> From: Truitt, Marc <marc.truitt at ualberta.ca>
> Organization: University of Alberta Libraries
>
> Cross-posted; please forgive the duplication...
>
> Friends,
>
> I have a somewhat unusual request.  I've been asked to give a presentation
> to students in the introductory library/information science course at a
> local library school.  The presentation is about how libraries have
> redefined themselves, their services, and their work because of
> technological change, and the time-frame is the last forty years.  Think of
> it as a walk down memory lane.
>
> I'm looking for anecdotes, reminiscences, and especially visuals that will
> help to convey where we have been in the last forty years, and how we got
> from there (mid-1960s) to here. I'm hardly the oldest timer around, but I
> can spin a few entertaining yarns that would be illustrative and relevant
> from the 1970s to the present.  I bet there are many of you who could add
> to
> the fun with some tales of your own.
>
> Would you be willing to share them for my use, either on- or off-list?
>
> And about those visuals: I'm looking for images (digital photos, scans,
> screenshots, whatever) of tools, stuff, devices of all sorts. The whole
> range, from maybe a nice image of cards, card sorters, correction devices,
> to ILS screenshots of different periods and varying functional modules, to
> screenshots of OCLC, RLIN, (or your fave other utility), both graphical and
> character-based.  Early library webpages would be great.  Anything and
> everything.  Images of early dumb terminals (I fondly remember one of my
> first, a 300-bps acoustic-coupled portable that we used for searching BRS
> and Medline in 1979).
> [snipped here]
>
>