While many students spent last summer trying to get as far away from Cornell’s libraries as possible, the Cornell University library system completed a 32-year-long retrospective conversion, or “recon ...

It’s been a long time since most libraries were filled with card catalogs — drawers upon drawers of paper cards with information about books. But now, the final toll of the old-fashioned reference ...

Tell us what you think. E-mail comments or questions to the editors at letters@northwestern.edu. Ever wonder about those strange designations we use throughout Northwestern to identify alumni of the ...

This book about card catalogs, written and published in cooperation with the Library of Congress, is beautifully produced, intelligently written and lavishly illustrated. It also sent me into a ...

WASHINGTON — Henriette D. Avram, whose far-reaching work at the Library of Congress replaced ink-on-paper card catalogs and revolutionized cataloging systems at libraries worldwide, died April 22 of ...

This book about card catalogs, written and published in cooperation with the Library of Congress, is beautifully produced, intelligently written and lavishly illustrated. It also sent me into a ...

I went to Shields Library recently to use the card catalog, only to find it in the process of being dismantled and discarded. The reason I was going to use the card catalog illustrates why I am ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. This book about card catalogs, written and published in cooperation with the ...

Tell us what you think. E-mail comments or questions to the editors at letters@northwestern.edu. Ever wonder about those strange designations we use throughout Northwestern to identify alumni of the ...