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Roll Your Own Catalog Card

I spent a little time last night putting together a little virtual card catalog card generator. Insomnia? Maybe a little.

At any rate, I wanted to share the love and let the people of the world generate their own card catalog images. Usage is fairly straight-forward. Just fill out the info you’d like to see on the card and make it. Obviously, it doesn’t pull any bibliographical data from anywhere, so that leaves a lot up to your imaginations…

Please be kind to it and don’t try to incorporate this service into your own OPACs directly from here (you never know). I’ve provided the source code for that if you’re so inclined.

Enjoy!

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** Update 9/7/2006 **

Fixed the apostrophe slash bug.

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That’s so cool! I’ll be playing with this for a while

Have fun!

I’ve started a flickr pool:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/catalogcards/

Hello! Thanks for the great toy. I’ve made several cards for my blogs.

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[…] John Blyberg har laget en liten nostalgitripp for oss som startet bibliotekkarriæren med å støpe katalogkort ned i katalogskuffer. En serdeles kjedelig og teit jobb. Nå som den jobben er eliminert og dagens elektroniske kataloger gjør det stadig enklere både å katalogisere og bruke katalogene er det plass til litt nostalgi. Roll Your Own Catalog Card […]

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Genial, estupendo… Me parto de la risa..

[…] Everyone is making these neato virtual card catalog cards for their novels, and I started to do one for Story of a Girl but I wasn’t sure how it all worked and I didn’t want to do anything permanent, so I made a fake one as a test. Then the result amused me, because I am nothing if not my own best audience. […]

[…] Paul used a phrase of Tim O’Reilly’s when he said that library 2.0 is “an architecture of participation”. It is about making it possible for people who wouldn’t normally meet to collaborate together with ease. For this to happen librarians have to come off of their high horses a bit and have some fun with the data - he used John Blyberg’s card catalog as an example. […]

[…] Stuff you can do: The Library Card Catalog image with fun marginalia, but the info pulls from the PatREST server. Electronic Signage with the PatREST interface running on Plasma screens in the library. […]

This is divine. Thank you!

[…] First, I love this Catalog Card Generator. I love libraries, big ones (NYU!), small ones (Putney, VT) and I love old school catalog cards because they make me feel connected to the past in a way that electronic databases just can’t. […]

aha! this is a wicked cool site. i do have a problem, how can i save the image in jpeg format?

How do I get the card generator to work?

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roll your own card catalog baby>>>>
can you send the source code????

[…] Dit vind ik wel een hele leuke. Er is nog veel meer mogelijk dan dit tamelijk simplistische voorbeeld - ik kan haast niet wachten tot de volgende jubilaris! […]

Yikes! What happened to the catalog card generator? I love this thing!
JFW

Yikes - what happened to the link? I’ll be broken hearted if this goes offline - I have been recommending it to fellow artists, and want to include it on my new website: susiejefferson.com. There are a lot of people out there in love with this gadget, so PLEASE fix it! Thanks so much….

Hi Guys,
Yes, I intend to fix it. I noticed that it was broken last night after Joan’s comment. So please be patient and I’ll have it back up as soon as I can get a few minutes to work on it.

Hi John,
Is your card generator down again? Tried to use it tonight and its not there.

Thanks,
staci

Dear John:

I asked before if there was a way to save the card I generated as a .jpg, or if not how else I can create an image, so I can include it on my librarian blog page. Every attempt I try to create a link or image setup, it falls back to the code and doesn’t show a thing…

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