And the delight of upgrading from a typewriter with foam cups to shove the phone handset into to a proper, green-screen computer! And doing the search via a burbly modem.

Regards

 

Mike

 

 

 

 

The five stages of searching (1980-ish onwards, earlier experiences will be available somewhgere!)– others will be able to flesh out the details perhaps – I remember cutting my fingers on the indexes as they were printed on bible paper, 2,000+ pages per volume or thereabouts:

 

Thick volumes of Indexus Medicus on shelves, with citations (and possibly abstracts)

 

Medline on CD-ROM sent every quarter

 

Dialog on a dial up dedicated telephone line (acoustic coupler) to Switzerland at £90.00 per hour so one trained librarian who jealously guarded the login details could query the database and get a long printout of citations

 

Dialog then subscriber access over internet to access Medline

 

And then, finally, PubMed and access for all (still restricted for full database access of course, as now), mediated by Ovid or whoever

 

 

You could apply that to the cartoon image of the evolution of mankind I expect, if you try hard!

 

 

Kind regards,

Mark.

 

 

 

 

Hello

 

We are doing a library stand for our Education Centre’s open day and the theme is “Education through the Ages”, end of September.

 

We thought we could do a poster / flow chart showing how we now go about getting an article in full text (Clinician asks library for a literature search, we use HDAS and provide a list of abstracts, library provides full text articles requested using inter-library-loans etc. etc.)

 

BUT, we don’t know what happened before the Internet?  Would anyone have any ideas they can share.

 

Much appreciated.

Nat

 

Kind regards,     

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