Wonder how many of us who remember Brown Issue also remember someone dropping the box on the floor?

Only once in my case …….

 

Helen

 

 

Two words: Brown Issue

 

‘nuff said.

 

Stuart.

 

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I’ve really enjoyed reading these threads! I worked in public libraries in the days pre-internet and remember microfiche with great fondness, although I have no desire to return to that technology.

 

I worked in Acquisitions and remember all of our data coming on CD-ROMs then having to upload it to the main server which could take days! In the late 80s/early 90s we used a system called ‘Cardbox’ to manage data too – kind of like a pre-Access format but much clunkier! And card catalogues…

 

Best

Karen

 

 

 

 

And don’t forget the photocopiers:

 

·         A heavy roll of photostatic paper. If the copier was kept too close to a window you got white streaks down the copy. The photocopies faded away to nothing after a few years.

·         A moving platen. If you put anything heavy on it or pressed down to try to get a good copy you just ended up with streaks as you’d slowed the platen down too much.

·         Liquid ink. Topping up the toner was a very messy job.

·         Paper jams and changing the roll of paper. You had to undo the screws and remove the platen to sort these out.

 

Copying down lists of references in longhand – I bet there were more than a few errors as the print was small and Index Medicus very large.

 

And to obtain articles, just printed lists of journal holdings. I remember using SE Thames, then SW Thames, then NULJ and I had to update these lists as I was notified of changes. It wasn’t always easy to identify the correct journal title as Index Medicus used PubMed abbreviations but you couldn’t look these up on the internet… I recall spending ages looking for Clinical Plastic Surgery, a title which had been incorrectly expanded by one of our requesters. It was actually Clinics in Plastic Surgery (sitting on our shelves) but, being new, I didn’t know that.

 

For books, there was no union catalogue. Our book catalogue was still part card-based in 2001.

 

 

 

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

 

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