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McConnell Library Cataloging Department
McConnell Library Cataloging Department
This photo shows a technical services employee cataloging a book. The cataloging department was on the third floor of McConnell Library at the time and has since been moved to the second floor.
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McConnell Library Card Catalog
McConnell Library Card Catalog
Before libraries used computer programs and electronic catalogs, they depended on the card catalog. In each drawer of the catalog was a group of index cards with call number, title, author, and several bits of cataloging information about the book represented by the card. Patrons would look up a book in the catalog to find the call number so they could go to the book stacks to obtain the book.
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McConnell Library Audio-Visual Equipment Room
McConnell Library Audio-Visual Equipment Room
The library has checked out projectors, screens, and other things needed to use audio-visual material. At the time of this photograph, the Audio-Visual items were checked out from a room on the 4th floor of McConnell Library. In addition to the items available for checkout, in this photograph we can also see the lamination machine that was available for use in the building.
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McConnell Library
McConnell Library
McConnell Library as seen from the sidewalk.
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McConnell Library Reference Department
McConnell Library Reference Department
Larry Pollard, reference librarian, using a microfiche reader in the Reference Department on the third floor of McConnell Library.
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McConnell Library Reference Department
McConnell Library Reference Department
Larry Pollard, reference librarian, using a microfiche reader in the Reference Department on the third floor of McConnell Library.
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McConnell Library Card Catalog
McConnell Library Card Catalog
There was a time of transition between when libraries used a physical card catalog and when they used a computer based catalog. During this transition time it seems some items were cataloged in the card catalog and some on fiche. The microfiche catalog would later be used as a backup system when the new electronic catalog was first in use.
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McConnell Library Cataloging Department
McConnell Library Cataloging Department
The cataloging department of McConnell Library in 1985. This department was located on the third floor of the library, and has since been moved to the second floor. This department was responsible for creating records and call numbers for books, serials, videorecordings, sound recordings, and other types of information in the library.
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McConnell Library Circulation Workroom
McConnell Library Circulation Workroom
This was a workroom next to the circulation desk on the third floor of McConnell Library. The Library was built on a hill, so the main entrance was on the third floor.
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McConnell Library Circulation Workroom
McConnell Library Circulation Workroom
Next to the circulation desk on the third floor of McConnell Library was a circulation workroom. The machine in this photograph was in that room and was used to sensitize or de-sensitize a detection device installed in each book in the library collection. That device, in conjunction with a detection gate near the exit helped deter theft of library materials.