Looking into history

I’m wading through history today at the Grand Saline Library. I’ve gone through scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, notes and photos. One of the things that I’ve found most interesting is the spiral notebooks that I’ve found with the notes of circulation statistics over the years. I have several years of these notebooks documenting how many books were checked out each day, month and year. We still keep track of this kind of information. In fact, when I first started working at the library, my helper was still writing this kind of information down daily in a spiral notebook. I finally convinced her there was no need for this type of record keeping because we could run daily reports from the system that we use to check materials out. As much as I love the ease in record keeping with these technological advancements, I also love the beauty of these old records.