[chrisco255]

Well if it makes you feel any better we spent a whole week on the Dewey Decimal system and how to look up books via index cards. Because computerized indexes and search were rapidly replacing physical lookup, I never ever used that skill again.

[bradknowles]

I worked in the library on campus from 1985 to 1989. We had both the Old Stacks (where Dewey Decimal was used) and the New Stacks (with Library of Congress). We also had some pretty serious computer systems in the basement to connect our systems up to all the other University libraries in the country and world. And we had computer terminals for checking the books out and back in.