On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> They used to have a light beam system ...
- Oh, sorry, thought you said a light BEAN system...
... back in the bad old days keen librarians tried fitting lightbeam
counters to the shelves, to count accesses as opposed to loans ... users
wd say, (clunk) hullo (clunk) this is odd (clunk) everytime I take a book
(clunk) on or off the shelves (clunk) there's this clunking noise...
Keston or somebody, bring us back to reason again, or I might have to tell
some more librarian stories...
RC
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