Just off the eastern wall on the ground floor of the Mitchell Reading Room are a row of index card drawers. Each drawer has a brass knob and a miniature brass-bordered paper plaque that identifies the extent of its guidance: MUNCIPAL GOVT — TAHITI ⸻ MURRAY, M, then MURRAY, N ⸻ MUSIC, Acoustics, and so on.
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Just off the eastern wall of the Mitchell Reading Room are a row of index card drawers. Each drawer has a brass knob and a miniature brass-bordered paper plaque…
What fascinates you about this observation? Is there something in it that makes you want to ask more?
I wonder how complete or incomplete their knowledge was. Was there more serendipity when things were organised alphabetically? Was it more possible to know everything there was to know about the Murrays in Sydney at that time?
The five questions
The brief, assembling
The inefficient joys of alphabetical ordering
We've removed serendipity from our design vocabulary and our lives.
Brass-knobbed drawers in the Mitchell Reading Room — MUNCIPAL GOVT — TAHITI ⸻ MURRAY, M.
Busy young professional, racing to keep up — at risk of missing the serendipitous encounters coming their way.
awaiting Q5 …
More of your thinking.
Distinctly you.
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