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mato
January 18th, 2002, 05:59 PM
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Arg!!! The freaken library got a new computer system and it is so freaken annoying!!! Aaaahhhh!!!! what ever happened to the card catalog?! I liked that I miss that! I could freaken use that and run through the whole damn list of books without even having to bother with any freaken key board or customer service representatives, and if anything went wrong no big deal the only thing they had to worry about were the freaken elements and kids wondering off with a card! But now computer viruses electricity shortages bugs and all that effect the system and I'll be damned if I can find a freaken book in the freaken things! I spent an hour at one trying to find the freaken decimal of a book that I wanted and the librarians were no help as they hadnt been put in YET!!!!! And if I wanted a subject simmilar to the one I was looking up I only had to navigate a system set up by a freaken moron! I like the library it was the one place I could retreat to without the whole mess of electronic interferance (except for the lights and elevator), but now it is just like every other place. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! progress Ha! The only progress they made was the speed in which people flee! I want the damn card catalog back!

Worse than that, a few promising books were on the list that I did manage to get, but the only available copy was in another library and the book couldnt be transfered and it was too damn far away to go out and get! Arg!

*head explodes*
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Garnet
January 18th, 2002, 06:05 PM
And technology is supposed to make life so easy...sigh.

:razz: :bad: :flamer:

Maybe we could start an 'aimless rant' thread just for venting.

Living well is the best revenge.

willowfairy
January 18th, 2002, 06:10 PM
Are you saying that you like using the olden days kind of card catalog with, like, actual cards? Woah. Our library has a card catalog on the computers and it's awesome. A whole lot easier too. But maybe that's just me......

mato
January 19th, 2002, 12:28 AM
Originally posted by willowfairy
Are you saying that you like using the olden days kind of card catalog with, like, actual cards? Woah. Our library has a card catalog on the computers and it's awesome. A whole lot easier too. But maybe that's just me......

some people dont have a problem and some systems arent set up by some one so 'messed' up that he cant tell up from down let alone construct a resonably user friendly search engine, or actually include the library books from the library they are installing it in. I LOVED the cards! They were so fun to use you actually got to fiddle through them and have some sort of physical sensation other than plastic keys on the tips of your finges... Going to the library used to be an experaince, now it is just another horrible task to do with the annoying hum and the blinding unnatural lights... If I didnt have stuff to learn from this damn thing I would be out right now...

hey an aimless rant thingy sounds like a good idea.