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, ...

This old-school catalog card shows the Library of Congress' copy of John James' Audubon's seminal The Birds of America. The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures, published by Chronicle ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

For National Library Week, explore the tools of a vintage library circulation desk. In 1918, they might not have had computers to circulate and track library books, but their paper-based systems were ...

The card catalog was slated to be discarded during a massive library renovation. Small wonder: It hadn’t been updated in two decades, it sat mostly unused, and it would cost hundreds of thousands of ...

As National Library Week begins — it runs from April 9–15 this year — the Library of Congress looks back at the ancestor of the card catalog, in this excerpt from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and ...

Changes happen in the library world fast. There were the days of the card catalog, when you had to look up books by title, author or subject and you only knew what the library you were visiting had, ...

Seinfeld move over, the Seminole County Library card catalog may be coming to a television near you. Keeping pace with cutting-edge technology, access to the county’s library card catalog may become ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Index cards are mostly obsolete nowadays. We use them to create flash cards, write ...