Oh, and one more recollection ... these stood on a circular base on
tables near our public card catalog.  You would flip through the metal
upright holders (sort of reminds me of how the old restaurant table juke
boxes flipped)  to find the journal entry.  Unfortunately ours were not
secured (at least not very well) to the tables and once in a while one
or more holders would get knocked to the floor.  Imagine picking up
these little strips where the titles had been separated from the
holdings, and trying to get them back in order.

Lynn K. Cote
Serials Cataloger
Collections Services, U-2005
University of Connecticut
Homer Babbidge Library
369 Fairfield Rd.
Storrs, CT  06269-2005
ph. (860)486-6495
fax (860)486-6493
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lynn Cote
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:14 PM
To: 'SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum'
Subject: RE: [SERIALST] What was this serials technology called?

This is a very distant memory of @ 30 years ago ....
We referred to ours as the "linedex" (alphabetical single or multi-line
entries for journal titles and associated holdings--included location
information, lines with x-refs, etc.).  I believe we used different
colored strips. Every time we added a new subscription these had to be
shifted. When holdings changed they had to be re-typed. I can't recall
if using an electric eraser worked since it would be difficult to put a
single strip into the typewriter but I do recall that we had a specific
typewriter for linedex entries.

Lynn K. Cote
Serials Cataloger
Collections Services, U-2005
University of Connecticut
Homer Babbidge Library
369 Fairfield Rd.
Storrs, CT  06269-2005
ph. (860)486-6495
fax (860)486-6493
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-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Evans
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:54 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] What was this serials technology called?

Is it not a kardex?

Sincerely,
Tom Evans
Serials Librarian
Canisius College Library
2001 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14208
email: evans@canisius.edu
Phone: 716-888-2932
Fax: 716-888-2887

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:13:30 -0700
>From: Cheryl Boettcher Tarsala <c-tarsala@LINKLINE.COM>
>Subject: [SERIALST] What was this serials technology called?
>To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
>
>This is a somewhat recreational question, but perhaps the list would
>be willing to weigh in on it.
>
>I've been cruising flickr looking for cataloging images for my blog,
>and found this one:
>
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/meliroo/444411917/in/set-72157600043671337
/
>
>I realized that it's a mysterious, lost technology that I don't know
>anything about.  What on earth was it called?  I struggle to think of
>keywords to even Google it!
>
>I'm old enough to remember them in use, but never personally worked
>with them. How did all the little cardboard strips fit into the
>typewriter so you could type on them? Do you pull off the top metal
>strip of the holder and drop the strips into each side? And, I
>suppose you have to shift all the strips each time you get a new line
>...?
>
>Any insight into the workings of these things from long-time
>serialists would be appreciated!
>--
>Cheryl Boettcher Tarsala
>Adjunct Assistant Professor
>LEEP Program, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>c-tarsala@linkline.com
>ctarsala@uiuc.edu
>
>The views expressed here are my own and not those of UIUC or GSLIS.