The circ desk as it was. Was being the operative word. It is history.
And that desk saw a lot of action over the 30+ years it was in place. How many items were circulated here? How many formats has that desk witnessed--just in music? LP's were the standard, then cassettes--bypassing the 8 tracks somehow--which brings us to CDs. When this desk was new, the circulation system was the Regiscope, which recorded an image of the book checked out with the date-due slip. Then, in around 1984, circulation moved to an automated system.
The new carpet.
That is all for now. I will post more pictures later. In the meantime please check out the library's MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/amarillopubliclibrary .
Thanks to Sam and Terri for information about the formats and circ systems of the past.
Cheers,
Melody
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The Regiscope didn't "record" exactly, it photographed the book pocket and library card, along with a "TC" slip. Then a staff member went through the microfilm and looked at the images for all TC slips (which were numbered) that weren't returned on time. Then someone had to type the patron information on a fine slip, which was filed in the "well". Every time a patron checked out, the staff member manually checked the files for patron fines. Can you imagine doing that with the amount of business we do now??
Thanks for the correction. I was hesitant to use the word "photograph" for some reason. And no, I can't imagine having to do that now.
Can we get an overall photo of the front? For those of us who haven't seen it lately, the corner photo is pretty confusing.
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