The Reference Desk

Got a question about the road? Ask the reference librarian—type a name, a slang word, a town, or a topic, and we’ll pull the card.

Librarian standing at wooden card-catalog drawers in a Minnesota high-school library, October 1974 — Librarian at the card files, Senior High School, New Ulm, Minnesota. Original DOCUMERICA caption (excerpt): librarian at the card files at Senior High School in New Ulm, Minnesota—a county-seat farming town of about 13,000 in south-central Minnesota. Photograph by David Rees, October 1974. U.S. National Archives (NAID 558218), public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Used once site-wide.

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