Here's the "Dead Zone

As promised to my fellow classmates, I brought my camera to the library and captured the “Dead Zone” on film…well we don’t use film in cameras any more unless you are super artsy.


The fourth floor is where the National Union Catalogue Pre-1956 Imprints looms.

This set of huge 1970s barf green volumes graces an entire wall on the fourth floor of the UCF library.

What good do these dinosaurs do for the average grad student?

They happen to act like a WorldCat Database only in print. They were an attempt to catalogue all forms of media created before 1956 in most of America’s libraries. You can search by subject, author and title but make sure you check both versions of the catalogue. They published it in two sets because it was such an arduous project cataloguing all of the older material in all America’s libraries. I guess WorldCat and other online databases have since replaced this but it is pretty cool. Besides, you can find keywords here and maybe they missed something when transferring all of that info onto the databases.

Until next time, aim before you shoot.

~Blake