I do not remember a name for it.

However, when I typed them, it was used for typing the journal title and the OCLC Number that we used somehow for journal check-in. (early SC350)

This was BEFORE word documents.  This way, you could create a list and when a serial title changed, you could insert, delete, move the strips up and down without typing the whole page. From time to time, I took out the metal pages from the holder, photocopied them and this became a list for Serials check-in, and was used as a list for the public to see what titles we had.   (no kardex)

John Lucas

Serials Librarian
University of Mississippi Medical Center
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Jackson, MS 39216-4505

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>>> Cheryl Boettcher Tarsala <c-tarsala@LINKLINE.COM> 4/30/2008 12:13 PM >>>
This is a somewhat recreational question, but perhaps the list would
be willing to weigh in on it.

I've been cruising flickr looking for cataloging images for my blog,
and found this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meliroo/444411917/in/set-72157600043671337/

I realized that it's a mysterious, lost technology that I don't know
anything about.  What on earth was it called?  I struggle to think of
keywords to even Google it!

I'm old enough to remember them in use, but never personally worked
with them. How did all the little cardboard strips fit into the
typewriter so you could type on them? Do you pull off the top metal
strip of the holder and drop the strips into each side? And, I
suppose you have to shift all the strips each time you get a new line
...?

Any insight into the workings of these things from long-time
serialists would be appreciated!
--
Cheryl Boettcher Tarsala
Adjunct Assistant Professor
LEEP Program, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

c-tarsala@linkline.com
ctarsala@uiuc.edu

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