HIT> Saying farewell to the ol' Card Catalog

["Rita Kaikow (Oceanside High School)" <K12OCKZR@VAXC.HOFSTRA.EDU>]

Just in case some of you are soon to bid your card catalogs adieu, I thought it
prudent to send forth the responses received thus far.


From:   IN%"K12OCKZR@vaxc.hofstra.edu"  "Rita Kaikow (Oceanside High School)"
11-FEB-1995 01:06:38.32

My colleague and I usually do things without much fanfare.  But when we started
discussing moving the card catalog off the floor to motivate all students, etc.
to use the OPAC, I came up with the concept of doing it "big time".

If any of you have already gone this step after automating, please share what
you did to bid the card catalog adieu, e.g. skits, songs, decorations, etc.

All ideas gratefully accepted.  :-)

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From:   IN%"rshook@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu" 10-FEB-1995 12:01:18.77

staging a mock funeral, complete with black draping (crepe paper)
and dirges and weeping & wailing etc!
Richard Librarian


From:   IN%"wexlr1@minerva.cis.yale.edu"  "Isadore Wexler School" 10-FEB-1995 23
 :1
 7:40.62

I saw in a magazine recently that an old card catalog makes a great
storage case for audio tapes.  I haven't tried it.  Also have seen one in
the window of an antique store. (What does that say about those of us who
are still using them?) Could you raffle it off to a collector??
Christine House, LMS
Wexler School
New Haven, CT


From:   IN%"popeda@heidelberg-emh2.army.mil"  "Pope" 11-FEB-1995 06:27:33.99

We did it on TV. It just so happened that the TV folks had just agreed
to show good spots done by kids, so our TV teacher and I cooked up a
plan to show me tossing cards into the trash, and then kids using
computers to find information. It was fun, kids did a super job, it
was shown all over Europe.

Then our system went down, we couldn't get any answers from tech
support in the States, and I wondered if we needed a follow-up
showing me picking in the trash bins looking for cards...

It got solved, and was ok in the end.

Dana Pope
popeda@heidelberg-emh2.army.mil


From:   IN%"lmcc@tenet.edu"  "Lynn McCree" 11-FEB-1995 18:20:56.92

I haven't had the opportunity since our district is still waiting to
automate the middle school libraries, but I did see on the net that
someone had taken part of it and used it to display small objects in
pulled open drawers.  This appealed to me.  Soon it will be an antique.


Lynn McCree, Librarian
Martin Junior High
Austin, Texas
Lmcc@tenet.edu


From:   IN%"scribner@tenet.edu"  "Mary Ellen Scribner" 11-FEB-1995 18:44:13.45

We had a "farewell" party all day in the library.  We decorated with
streamers, banners, confetti, etc.  The library staff wore party
hats and leis all day!  Students and faculty came by to pull cards out of
the drawers on which to write farewell messages.  We had a drawing from
those for door prizes.  We also had a large bowl which we kept filled
with candy all day--a rare opportunity to eat in the library! Two
newspapers sent reporters to the party, and we got lots of nice publicity
including a picture of students using our new on-line catalog and a very
nostalgic essay by one of the reporters!

Mary Ellen Scribner, Librarian                  512 250-2051
Westwood High School, Round Rock ISD            512 219-6167 (FAX)
12400 Mellow Meadow Dr.
Austin, TX 78750-1824


From:   IN%"pat@hawk.scan.org" 11-FEB-1995 20:17:38.20

I will soom be saying farewell to the ol' card catalog as well.  I would
love to receive a copy of the ideas you get.  One idea I have been toying
with is to have students pull favorite authors' cards out of the card
catalog.  Then write the author a letter telling why that person is their
favorite author and ask the author to sign the card.  Of course, I would
inclose a self addressed envelope.  This would have the students writing
and communicating through writing.  Hope you can use or adapt this idea.

Pat Lambert
Needham Elementary
Durango, Co
pat@scan.org


From:   IN%"dcarter@bud.peinet.pe.ca"  "Don Carter" 12-FEB-1995 16:29:33.88


...We got rid of ours when we  automated 1 1 1/2 years ago and went cold turkey
into the brave new world  of OPACs. Students don't seem to miss it especially
since the junior  highs that feed our school are now automated. Some of them
have never  seen a catalog card;others vaguely remember  them from elementary
school.

Good luck from the land of frozen french fries.

--
Don Carter                          "His had been an intellectual decision
<dcarter@peinet.pe.ca>              founded on his conviction that if a little
Colonel Gray Sr. H.S.               knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada          was lethal."      - Tom Sharpe


From:   IN%"lcarter@iserver.woodside.k12.ca.us" 13-FEB-1995 15:23:15.82

please post a hit.  We have automated and probably won't actually "discard"
the catalog for a year or so, but it would be fun to get ideas.


Laurie Carter- Library Media Teacher
Woodside Elementary School
3195 Woodside Rd.
Woodside, CA 94062
lcarter@woodside.K12.ca.us
"Minds are like parachutes.  They only function when open."


From:   IN%"fpentlin@garfield.leesummit.k12.mo.us"  "Floyd Pentlin" 14-FEB-1995
 07
 :51:37.72

Hi Rita -- Happy Valentine's Day!!  My festive announcement of the
arrival of baby Mandarin was with banners made out of the shocking green
and pink paper strung on Christmas lights that were mercelessly blinking
off and on over the new stations.  You could see it though the glass
doors and needless to say, cause quite a bit of comment.


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