Elton Camp Poet Rhyme

Before There Was Google

Before There Was Google

By Elton Camp

Way back in the graduate school days
To find facts, there weren’t many ways

Simply to find a library book
Into the card catalog you look

In little drawers, find the card
Searching was tedious and hard

When you locate it, still have doubt
For perhaps the book is checked out

It was off into the musty stack
The needed information to track

Also bringing the hapless researcher fear:
The Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature

One couldn’t have a sure expectation
The magazine was even in the collection

In very few colleges anywhere around
Was even a single computer to be found

For the good old days, I don’t yearn
But trust Google to help me learn

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