06/01/2026
So we've been doing some history deep dives as of late, so I thought I'd include some bona fide historical library artefacts for y'all. First up we have an advertisement for a product which sadly did not gain traction: a desktop microfiche reader. Who wouldn't want to read old documents in bed? The second pic is a library classic - the electric typewriter (secret confession time: I learnt to type on one of these bad boys). And last but not least: the stylus. Before we had sticky labels for putting call numbers on books, librarians used this heated "electro pencil" to write call numbers on book by hand.