Why Card Catalogs Matter (2017)
Back when I was 16, I got a summer job earning exactly minimium wage (yes, Federal Min wage... it was a job grant to employ youth in public service for the summer) at the county library.  It was located in an old Carnegie building!  They had an electronic catalog- but they still had the card catalog as well.  It had not been updated for some time, though.  So as part of my job (sometimes there wasn&#x27;t much for me to do), I took it upon myself to update it.  I think I impressed the older ladies that worked at the library- I not only knew what the card catalog was, but how it worked and how to operate the mechanical typewriter to type up new cards for new books that had been added to the collection.<p>Not long after this, the library moved to a brand new building.  The card catalog did not make the move to the new building.  I may have been the last person to have updated it.