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Museum of Obsolete Object

We watched a few videos from the Youtube page for the Museum of Obsolete Objects. This page shows a video clips for several obsolete technologies like the phonograph, abacus, hand-held egg beaters and and the rotary phone.

Metadata

We then listened to an interview with Karen Coyle by David Weinberger from the Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory. She discussed metadata of library contents for connecting resources beyond the library world.

We also discussed ExLibris in regards to our new library website redesign.

LexisNexis in a box was mentioned as an example of outdated technology. A picture of the LexisNexis Ubiq, complete with dot matrix printer is below.