This morning I arrived early for a student exam, and I found myself in a medical library for the first time in many years.
I strolled the neglected aisles. There's not much cause now to pull these old books out. There I found the "catalog of cell lines" ...
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They appear to be bound dot matrix printouts; even in the early 1980s this was not really the stuff of books. It went on for a few years, then we come to a softcover, then a few desultory binders. Today there are many databases of cell lines; you can order any one of 3,400 for home delivery.
Once these were bound books that scholars pulled from shelves.
I strolled the neglected aisles. There's not much cause now to pull these old books out. There I found the "catalog of cell lines" ...
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSpEptlF_WwuCpA7ThM9fEABYHygb6ICa5ZYo3_dtG-aIbjqH2yexYkTqcT17uy4gQGk4q8sUdCdqivz1kQ2L5FaY7bUdOn3myFgM8Crgn1Yya9DIy5j8J4FFVVmmDnIcK7Q/s320/photo-729405.jpg)
They appear to be bound dot matrix printouts; even in the early 1980s this was not really the stuff of books. It went on for a few years, then we come to a softcover, then a few desultory binders. Today there are many databases of cell lines; you can order any one of 3,400 for home delivery.
Once these were bound books that scholars pulled from shelves.
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