Unlike the modern search tool for post-1978 copyrights, the virtual card catalog (mockup pictured below) wouldn’t include the metadata necessary for meaningful search, but it would at least allow ...

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Today, people use the antique wooden cabinets to store their knick-knacks. But these card catalogs once held the keys to a world of information. A... File This Under Nostalgia: New Book Pays Tribute ...

(CNN) — It’s time to file the library catalog card under "O," for "obsolete." On Thursday, the Online Computer Library Center, the Ohio-based company that had printed catalog cards for public and ...

The Card Catalog: Books, Cards and Literary Treasures by the Library of Congress, published by Chronicle Books 2017. With 162 million items—including more than 38 million books—the Library of Congress ...

WASHINGTON — It probably arrived in the Washington Community High School library in the 1950s or 1960s, at a time when every library had to have one. But it hadn't been used for its intended purpose ...

The card catalog for the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library was once the only way to find needed books. Over four million cards cataloged each book’s location and from where it was donated.

If you do a Google search for "card catalog" it will likely return Pinterest-worthy images of antique furniture for sale — boxy, wooden cabinets with tiny drawers, great for storing knick-knacks, ...