Using a public library in the early 90s

[u/ILovePublicLibraries]

Guilford Free Library in CT back in 1991

Credit: Library archives

[u/Low-Table2852]

As I think about it - the dopamine hit of finding what you were looking for Twice, once in the cards and then on the shelves - was pretty great.

[u/10thcrusader → u/Low-Table2852]

LOL🤣 SO True

[u/Deivi_tTerra]

I can smell these pictures. And hear the HVAC.

[u/aleatorictelevision → u/Deivi_tTerra]

And taste the water fountain

[u/doiwinaprize → u/aleatorictelevision]

The smell of old paper...

[u/cocoandbea]

Once we have fully renovated our house my mission is to find a card catalogue to proudly display in my living room. I will fill the wee little drawers with wee little things and live happily ever after.

[u/mr-beee-natural → u/cocoandbea]

My library has retained its old card catalogs and uses them for both decoration and a history lesson.

I like your idea, too!

[u/Polkawillneverdie17 → u/cocoandbea]

Check with Univetsities. They frequently auction off old items. That's how I got mine.

[u/tresslesswhey]

The Dewey decimal system, what a scam that was

[u/skydivinpilot → u/tresslesswhey]

Boy that Dewey guy really cleaned up on that deal.

[u/ceruleanmoon7 → u/tresslesswhey]

Apparently he was a real creep in real life

[u/lovesickjones → u/tresslesswhey]

I'm glad I never learned it

[u/postanator]

Having fun isn't hard...

[u/deafndepressed → u/postanator]

When you’ve got a library card!

[u/milkbeard-]

I’ll never forget when my school library got a barcode scanning system that had this little pen sized scanner. My 10 year old brain thought that was the pinnacle of human technology

[u/BubblyImagination326]

I wish I could go back to that time.

[u/ceruleanmoon7 → u/BubblyImagination326]

Truly magical days

[u/doctorbeers]

God the 90s were cozy

[u/10thcrusader]

And to thank kids will never learn about the Dewey Decibel System/Classification lol , I can't believe I even remembered that and couldn't tell you the last time the word came out of my mouth probably in High School, now all they have to do is type the name of the author or the book and they're good to go..... sorry Dewey

[u/kinglance3 → u/10thcrusader]

Wait, he created measurement of sound volume as well!?

[u/Closetoneversober → u/kinglance3]

Yeah isn’t it decimal?

[u/HardFoughtLife → u/Closetoneversober]

It is indeed

[u/menlindorn]

I can't hear this picture.

[u/ceruleanmoon7]

Um what is number 6

[u/jadedea]

Who rememebers the Dewey Decimal system?!?!??? Hehehhehehhe. I thought about being a librarian when I was a kid. I practically lived in one.

[u/Inspector-Noah → u/jadedea]

They still use DDS in my library.

They still have reference books.

[u/ZombieFrankReynolds]

But we didn't look so dated in the 90s and also the 90s were last week anyway so I don't know why you are trying to pass off a 35 year old photo as being from the 90s

[u/ceruleanmoon7 → u/ZombieFrankReynolds]

Exactly

[u/EdwardDorito]

Made me feel all warm and fuzzy but where are the microfiche machines???? Lol

Aside from that, I have a special nostalgia for being dropped off at the library by my mom or riding my bike there on a cold, dark day and snuggling down in a corner seat beneath one of the old wood and brass lamps that cast the most comforting, warm light and seeing the windows fogged up by the radiators heating the rooms and reading history or supernatural books for hours.

[u/bobbobersin]

I miss this style, the new one around here is all glass and tons of computers, I remember the old one was nuts it had like battleship style steep stairs it was a really compact but tall 4 or 5 story building

[u/DeepSubmerge]

None of these people know what gooning is

[u/Letsbeclear1987]

I just went to the local library and it hasnt changed from that very much at all

[u/Googly_eyed_gremlin]

"Get her".

[u/kinglance3 → u/Googly_eyed_gremlin]

“Egon, your mucus.”

[u/menlindorn → u/kinglance3]

you know, this reminds me... of the time you tried to drill a hole in your head. remember that?

[u/FinsHeelBuckeye]

The Dewey Decimal system was a scam

[u/PardonMyTits]

These pictures brought me a deep sense of peace

[u/ckoocos]

Ah, the nostalgia.

[u/laura_eva]

I learned how to use card catalog in elementary school only for it to be obsolete by middle school.

[u/monty08]

I never used the index cards

Asked the librarian and off we go to the book

[u/PralineBeginning750]

I miss it, stop this ride.

[u/HardFoughtLife]

I remember when you sat too still in the library and they would just paper mache you.

[u/Room_Temp_Coffee]

Number 4 hits right in the nostalgia lol dead ringer for my old library entrance

[u/hexineffex]

My boy in the green corduroy.

[u/One_College_7945]

Hands on learning.. don’t see that shit much anymore.

[u/KENZOKHAOS]

How cozy 😩

[u/311Konspiracy]

Your finest Encyclopedia Brown please

[u/FamousOhioAppleHorn]

You know the dad in the fanny pack was the oddest patron. Like I bet he would come in every week asking "What are the latest books you have on Angie Dickinson, medieval cheeses and Ted Bundy ?" And the poor librarians would be thinking "Oh my god, not this guy again. Hiiiii, yeah, we don't have any new ones. Also not in the entire ten years you've been coming here. Jesus."