In the New York Public Library’s Instagram account, Information Architect Morgan Holzer is posting images of 3×5 cards pulled from a shoebox collecting 50 years’ worth of weird questions that were posed to the system’s reference desks, which were strange and notable enough to warrant addition to the collection.
It’s a great collection of the kinds of weird miscellanea that today we pose to search engines without thinking twice, but which were once the province of a hard-working cadre of information specialists who were asked to figure out how to sell notable lighthouses one day, and what the natural enemy of a duck was the next day.
via Boing Boing
