My very fist library job in 1994 was in a very small school, but the library
had a typewriter with a memory! We had no computers, but I only ever had to
type one catalog card, and then tell it how many to do and it typed them
while I was doing something else. The kids were fascinated that it worked by
itself. I only had to add the top line depending on which drawer the card
was going in.
In my next school we had records--kids were transfixed to think it had music
(or in most cases poetry readings) on BOTH SIDES!
BTW, we still use a typewriter for our spine labels because they stay
readable better than any others, and my assistant can crank them out in
record time. Every once in a while someone comes in to fill in a form and is
most grateful that we still have our typewriter. And when it bit the dust 4
years ago we re-ordered the same model without skipping a beat.
Maureen S. Irwin, Library Director
Rye Country Day School
Rye, New York 10580
msirwin@optonline.net
Any book you have not read is a new book.
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