From Quartz.
“One hundred years before post-millennial parents were deeming Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs inappropriate for young vegans, the children’s librarians of the New York Public Library kept a card catalog of hand-typed kids’ book reviews.
“There’s about a billion card catalogs in the library,” says Lynn Lobash, who oversees reader services at the NYPL. “But these are special in that they were used as a tool for collection development, for the staff to evaluate the children’s collection.”
Fave comment written in 1975 on an index card is “Just what we’ve been waiting for. A DIRTY TEENAGE NOVEL” about Judy Blume’s Forever.
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