At Univ. of South Carolina, the Card Catalog’s Graceful Departure

From: B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2_at_nyob> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:16:33 -0700 To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

"At Univ. of South Carolina, the Card Catalog’s Graceful Departure", Library Journal, October 29, 2009.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704296.html

I'm not exactly sure about this snippet:

"One section of the card catalog will remain in TCL as an artifact. Birchfield noted that librarians who teach LIBR 100, a one-credit information literacy course, usually pull a card catalog drawer to show students some of the organizing principles."

Imagine you're a student in LIBR 100, and a librarian pulls out a paper file that hasn't been updated since 1991 to teach you how to use a computer system. :-)

I think it speaks volumes for how today's online catalogs are still tied to the old paper catalog model.

Bernie Sloan