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University of Iowa Libraries: About cARTalog
The cARTalog grows from the empty drawers of the University of Iowa Libraries’ main card catalog, which was retired in 2004. A small community of library staff—motivated by both nostalgia and library subculture– has come together to give the card catalog cards themselves a rebirth, in order to celebrate the role of this honorific icon within the world of libraries as well as the UI Libraries’ sesquicentennial. Project organizers were able to salvage approximately only one quarter of the UI’s card catalog for the cARTalog project; the remaining cards were hauled away to recycling. The UI Libraries is only one of several libraries that have sought to honor the waning card catalog with a lasting monument or ceremony.
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That rocks!
If I could, I would own one of those massive card catalogs, just for the nostalgia. The smell, when you slide open that long drawer that’s absolutely useless for anything else, is very much like opening an old book. You can’t replace that, and it’s a shame that future generations are going to, eventually, miss the feel and smell of holding and reading an actual book.
HI, JUST SOME ADVICE FOR ALL OF US OUT THERE HOLD YOUR HEAD UP HIGH AND SMILE ! BY FOR NOW