{"id":60,"date":"2010-08-12T09:36:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T14:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/?p=60"},"modified":"2012-04-16T11:35:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T16:35:46","slug":"the-catalog-is-evolving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/2010\/08\/12\/the-catalog-is-evolving\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catalog is Evolving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/card_catalog_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-61\" style=\"border-style: solid; border-color: black; border-image: initial; border-width: 1px; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Card catolg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/card_catalog_lg-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Before personal computers were prevalent, you had to use something called a <em>card catalog<\/em> to locate material in the library (see photo, circa 1962). \u00a0Those days are long gone. \u00a0For those of you wondering, 1995 was the year the card catalog left East Meadow. \u00a0Today, the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) or simply put, the catalog, has replaced dozens of drawers and thousands of paper cards. \u00a0The library&#8217;s current catalog is shared with most of the other public libraries in Nassau County. \u00a0It&#8221;s called ALIS<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">CAT <\/span> and it can be accessed by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alisweb.org\">http:\/\/www.alisweb.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Soon it will undergo a transformation which will make it easier to use and a bit more powerful. \u00a0You can have a sneak peek at the new ALIS<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">CAT<\/span> before it goes live. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/encore.alisweb.org\">http:\/\/encore.alisweb.org<\/a> and give the new catalog a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before personal computers were prevalent, you had to use something called a card catalog to locate material in the library (see photo, circa 1962). \u00a0Those days are long gone. \u00a0For those of you wondering, 1995 was the year the card catalog left East Meadow. \u00a0Today, the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) or simply put, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/2010\/08\/12\/the-catalog-is-evolving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Catalog is Evolving!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastmeadow.info\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}