{"id":344,"date":"2014-02-18T16:43:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/rock50\/?p=344"},"modified":"2014-02-18T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:43:49","slug":"thomas-warger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/2014\/02\/18\/thomas-warger\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Warger (Ph.D., 1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-345\" alt=\"20140218thomasWarger\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140218thomasWarger.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140218thomasWarger.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140218thomasWarger-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140218thomasWarger-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140218thomasWarger-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140218thomasWarger-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above quote is from Thomas Warger who received his Ph.D. in 1979. Read the full memory below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Library was converting from the Cutter cataloging system to Library of Congress (mid-1970s). You&#8217;d bring books to the circ desk, and any that were still Cutter had to have new labels attached.<\/p>\n<p>Very slow and quiet during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>One day the service bell on the circ desk had one of those spiral pen-retainer cords tucked under it and leading over the back edge of the counter. A small sign next to it said, &#8220;Ring for service. Every 17th hit delivers an electric shock.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The above photo is of\u00a0Thomas A. Warger, at his carrel, summer 1978. Six months away from completion of Ph.D. in French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above quote is from Thomas Warger who received his Ph.D. in 1979. Read the full memory below: The Library was converting from the Cutter cataloging system to Library of Congress (mid-1970s). You&#8217;d bring books to the circ desk, and any that were still Cutter had to have new labels attached. Very slow and quiet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}