The land before drives: at the library

Friday Just for Fun…

As my kids would ask…what are they doing?

Well, kids…(insert Dana Carvey’s “grumpy old man” voice from SNL)…

In my day, we didn’t have fancy computers that told us exactly where to find a book at the library. We had to comb through little drawers of cards that had little numbers and letters on them. Dozens of them, sometimes hundreds of them taking minutes, sometimes hours. Then we had to write the little numbers and letters down on something we called paper, and walk through aisles of shelves looking for the place where the book is supposed to be. Then, we would find the shelf, and comb through the little numbers and letters on the book’s binding to find the one we wanted.  Looking, searching, for minutes, only to come to the conclusion that it’s not there!  So we’d move onto the next set of little numbers and letters, and walking around the aisles of shelves, looking lost and confused…and the story goes on.

Remember those days?

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