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[[File:Butler 310old.jpg|thumb|right|Butler 310 with the remaining card catalogs on the southern side of the room]]

[[File:Butler 310new.jpg|thumb|right|Butler 310 with card catalogs on the northern side of the room removed and replaced by cheap office furniture. Not exactly an improvement.]]

'''Butler 310''' is a room in [[Butler Library]] that contains the library's remaining card catalogs. The catalogs were among the first to use the Dewey Decimal System, and were actually arranged by [[Melvil Dewey]] himself when he was chief librarian at Columbia. Although they hadn't even been updated since [[1985]] (as the library website notes, "major historical changes, such as the break-up of the Soviet bloc in 1991, are not reflected"<ref>http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/butler/catalog_faq.html</ref>) the card catalogs were finally slated to be removed over the course of [[2013]]-[[2014]], and the room turned into a "Digital Humanities Center," whatever that means.

In addition to the card catalogs, Butler 310 contains some intriguing study nooks, as it's actually a two-tiered room with a partial "second story" mezzanine that wraps around most of the space.

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[[Category:Rooms]]
[[Category:Butler Library]]