Re: [BKARTS] Remember library card catalogs?

[Peter Verheyen <verheyen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd also like to remind everyone of the cARTalog project at the University 
of Iowa. That project is online at <http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/pr/cartalog/>.

"The cARTalog grows from the empty drawers of the University of Iowa 
Libraries' main card catalog, which was retired in 2004. A small community 
of library staff-motivated by both nostalgia and library subculture-- has 
come together to give the card catalog cards themselves a rebirth, in order 
to celebrate the role of this honorific icon within the world of libraries 
as well as the UI Libraries' sesquicentennial. Project organizers were able 
to salvage approximately only one quarter of the UI's card catalog for the 
cARTalog project; the remaining cards were hauled away to recycling. The UI 
Libraries is only one of several libraries that have sought to honor the 
waning card catalog with a lasting monument or ceremony."

This project was covered in an article "The Story in the Cards: Intimacy, 
Empathy and Reader Response" by Kristin Baum that ran in Vol 3., No, 1 of 
the Bonefolder. See 
<http://www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder/vol3no1contents.htm> for more 
details.
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Peter D. Verheyen
Bookbinder & Conservator, PA - AIC
<verheyen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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