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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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The nation’s library card catalogs this month finally joined other anachronisms: phone books, slide rules, encyclopedias and those yellow 45 rpm record adapters. The Ohio company that made the cards ...

Relied upon by generations of students to find books for term papers, research projects and pleasure, the University of Washington's card catalogs no longer are crammed with index cards worn by ...

Imagine you wanted to find books or journal articles on a particular subject. Or find manuscripts by a particular author. Or locate serials, music or maps. You would use a library catalog that ...

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, ...