This picture came from Easy Street Prompts
I remember research
projects in high school.
Facing that many-eyed
card catalogue.
Those well-worn
index cards soft
as cotton. Fingering
through them to find
appropriate books.
Each drawer I opened
breathed freedom
into the library.
5 comments:
will the dewey decimal system become yet another in the long line of "lost arts"???????
I love the phrase "soft as worn cotton". I worked in a library during college and spent many a fine hour in the stacks and card catalogues. I still judge a town by its library.
I enjoyed reading this very much. Brought back some wonderful memories. Great photo too.
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you brought back memories Linda
paper.
old fashioned paper.
what will the kids remember from their research now?
old keyboards?
google?
sigh.
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