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and I’ll never know what it was like to try to find a book title without the ease of a Google search, to check out items with due date slips and stamps, or to convert the physical card catalog to a computer database.
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William Ottens (Librarian Tales: Funny, Strange, and Inspiring Dispatches from the Stacks)
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pivoted the results on our Criminal Records Bureau and National Insurance database mirrors to get the place of work for everyone who’s on the books, and the pre-processor is turning that into grid reference data so we can plot them on a map or query for areas where the rate of that’s funny . . .
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Charles Stross (The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files, #5))