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, ...
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.
On a chilly December morning in downtown Roanoke, dozens gather inside the Main Branch of the Roanoke Public Libraries. Some ...
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 ...
Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. The Library of Congress just ...
As a former librarian with experience in the labor-intensive processes of creating, maintaining and using card catalogues, I have some thoughts about Michael Lindgren's review of a new book on library ...
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 ...
They’d just finished setting up projectors to create a replica of the planetarium Thomas Jefferson had envisioned spanning the University of Virginia’s Rotunda dome when Neal Curtis and Sam Lemley ...
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 new Library of Congress book explores their history.
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