Old is new again

Vintage and retro seems to have taken off on a whole new level lately. Anything old is charming.
Which is perfectly reasonable. Heaps of that stuff is awesome.

Do you remember library catalogue cards? Probably not, if you're one of our students.
But if you're older than 25, chances are you've come across them sometime in your life.

For those of you who are asking - "What is a library catalogue card?"
It used to be the way you found a book in a library. Yes, before computers.
There would be drawers full of cards, arranged in order. It took a lot more time than searching on a computer because sometimes the way that you thought of a book was not the way that the librarian thought of the book. So it would be classified by a random word that meant nothing to you. These days, that can still happen - but the computer will help by suggesting similar subjects or titles so it's so much easier. And if you spell a word wrong then hopefully the computer can correct it for you.

Now that most libraries have computerised library catalogues, the dusty old card cabinets have been replaced with shiny new computers.
People have done all kinds of interesting things with old library catalogue cards, like making books and jewellery, and using the actual card storage boxes as wine cabinets and all kinds of other things.

But the coolest library catalogue card related thing I've seen lately has to be the library catalogue card generator. You simply go online, write a bunch of things and it comes out looking... like a library catalogue card.

Make one. You know you want to.