{"id":3735,"date":"2025-04-04T14:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T20:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:57:59","slug":"onomatopoetic-instructions-from-the-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2025\/04\/04\/onomatopoetic-instructions-from-the-1990s\/","title":{"rendered":"onomatopoetic instructions from the 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordtheatricals.com\/a\/4260\/jonathan-caws-elwitt\">Jonathan Caws-Elwitt<\/a> has been a great friend to Library Shenanigans over the years, and continues his awesomeness with this little shenanigan from ca. 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Way back when, as a public library inaugurated their first automated circulation system and Hilary Caws-Elwitt was responsible for training her co-workers, she wrote up some beautifully onomatopoetic instructions! Note that &#8220;no sound effect&#8221; is the exceptional case. Bonus points for any library-IT-history nerds who can identify the specific software merely from the sound effects described. I&#8217;m assuming it&#8217;s Brodart, but we&#8217;re gonna need a version number before any prizes are awarded. (Caveat: I don&#8217;t know the\u00a0answer, though HC-E might. Or perhaps these specific sound effects were important Brodart trademarks that carried over from each version to the next?)&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/checkin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/checkin.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3546\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Caws-Elwitt has been a great friend to Library Shenanigans over the years, and continues his awesomeness with this little shenanigan from ca. 1995. &#8220;Way back when, as a public library inaugurated their first automated circulation system and Hilary Caws-Elwitt was responsible for training her co-workers, she wrote up some beautifully onomatopoetic instructions! Note that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Yf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}