Anonymous Patron writes “roanoke.com – Extra Stories -Libraries just aren’t the same“
Nicholson Baker has railed on this topic in the past as well (in pre-Double Fold days).
Anonymous Patron writes “roanoke.com – Extra Stories -Libraries just aren’t the same“
Nicholson Baker has railed on this topic in the past as well (in pre-Double Fold days).
She just didn’t ask to see the thesaurus…
…on the opac. Or maybe she missed the part where the librarian said, “And you use THIS key “*” to truncate your search.” I, too, miss the card catalog, but for reasons like the feel of the brass pulls struggling against the cards and the smell of the polish used on the wood.
Ah, reminiscing.