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Pastimes : Metaphysics and Spiritual Practices
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To: Carol who wrote (449)2/5/1998 8:15:00 PM
From: Yorikke  Read Replies (1) of 650
 
Carol,

Let me just say that the thing I miss most about libraries are the card catalogues. Those vase spaces of rich finished wood with thousands of little drawers; each containing a eye into the universe.
Oh yes we can do on-line searches; even in the library....but it is the weird and the improbable..those chance occurrences that are captured in the flick of a card. Places to go, gates to divergent worlds, that spread out like a swirls of knowledge through the vastness of the knowledge pool of the stacks....I always felt a certain mystery prevailed when I would come across a card that had a date, was perhaps a hand written description from some librarian near the turn of the century. It happened at UVA where the catalogues went back to Jefferson....Little pieces of paper noting a speck of knowledge. On occasion I would wander the stacks looking for something I was interested only in finding. And found I would sit and browse the artifact...letting the smell and feel of the book seep into me. Or drag it back to one of the ancient tables that Poe may have sat at. Sitting there 'wasting' time learning something totally irrelevant to my 'professional' enterprise.

Now, I just wander the stacks, searching old friendly nooks and cranies of the DD system. Wandering through places where I used to live, looking at shelves that have changed and grown, or lamenting the slow death of particularly dated fields of research.

regards,

mnmuench
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