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 ...

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 ...

From library guides to the bureaucratic era:an introduction -- Temporary indexing -- Around 1800. The first card index? -- Thinking in boxes -- American arrival -- Around 1900. Institutional ...

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 ...

Men working at linotype machines in the Card Division Printing Office of the Library of Congress (c. 1900-1920), from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards and Literary Treasures by the Library of Congress, ...

It’s not the card catalog of yesteryear, or even the one of recent years. There are no typed cards to flip through, or even generic computer screen prompts to respond. Instead, Gretna Public Library ...

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