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8 SMT007 MAGAZINE I FEBRUARY 2025 Nolan's Notes by Nolan Johnson, I-CONNECT007 Find the Help You Need: Accessing Technical Resources Some close friends of mine have a card cat- alog in their family room—with the cards still in it. It's just a novelty now, but it wasn't that long ago that the card catalog was the end-all, be-all of research resources. As a college stu- dent, I remember something like two dozen or more of the very large card catalog cabi- nets in the Oregon State University Library. ese university libraries had everything from research papers to the rare antiquities housed at the university. e trick was to find what you sought in the catalog and then find it again in one of many diverse library stacks. It's not lost on me that my friend's card cata- log "liberated" from the university is a snap- shot of that particular knowledge base at that particular moment in time. Today's access to a library's contents have changed dramatically.