A neat old postcard I recently came across. Probably, late 1950’s/early 1960’s.
The back reads:
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Circulation Desk
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR
WINDSOR, Ontario, CANADA
A great postcard. I love that clock.
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I worked there in my first year at U of W, 1965-66. We were just beginning to use a computer system that required punch cards and had to run the old system simultaneously as the cards didn’t work about as often as not. The reference room, glassed in with a mezzanine for extra stacks, was to the left “offstage” of this shot or on your right as you came in the main door past the manned security desk shown on the card. When I wasn’t on the check out desk, I shelved books in reference. By the time I worked there, I’d been in the public library system for five years or so. I never liked the academic library as well or the one at U of T where I worked briefly while in grad school.
Looks more early 70’s to me…
The library was named after Francis Leddy who was the President of the University from 1964 to 1978. I was there during his latter years beginning in 1973. The library was there then so I am assuming it was built in the late 60s
Great picture. I was there in the late 80’s and it still looked a lot like this. I’ll have to go and see if it still looks the same.
Now the Leddy is staffed by obsolete library technicians and “librarians” who just sit at a desk pointing the work that a search engine did.
This work does not require the amount “librarians” with Masters degrees in library science to get paid the amount they do now.
So long librarians! Burn the books because GOOGLE is here!
The future is friendly! NOT!
My uncle, aunt, and mother worked there through the years.
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