Card Catalog Drawers
It seems like early on in the life of this blog, v and I discussed card catalogs–as in the cabinets with drawers–and alternative uses for them. I can’t find those posts right now and am too tired to spend a lot of time searching for them. (It’s not this one.) It might have even mostly been blog comments, which aren’t really searchable in Manila.
On my way to work Wednesday, I found five card catalog drawers in the trash. I think they’re from a shelf list of a rather large collection because the drawers are numbered in the 100s and have ranges of Library of Congress call numbers printed on them. They aren’t consecutive. (I wonder where the rest are …) The rods are missing. I took them. I want a card catalog (as in the furniture) eventually because I could use the storage for some specific things. The drawers I picked up are cabinetless. They’re the right size for holding CDs. I wonder if I can find someone to make a cabinet for them that’ll work to hold CDs …
Why didn’t I take shop in middle school?
March 3rd, 2006 at 1:34 pm
My mom inherited some of the card catalogs when her library got rid of them. They’re a lovely furniture piece in her dining room, and all full of folk dance tapes. A colleague of hers used her set to make the base for a glass-covered coffee table in her living room. Card catalogs are so beautiful.