HAYWARD — City librarians have found a new purpose for those old card catalog cabinets, a throwback to the days before computers began helping patrons locate books — which they are checking ...

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.

In Abington, the longtime card catalog at the Dyer Library is technically functional, but library director Joice Himawan said, “I’ve been here 10 years and I haven’t actually seen anyone use ...

The card catalog, all 68 cabinets of it, was taken out of commission in 1989. The university's library is set to undergo major renovations over the next three years, and for a while, the future of the ...

Nestled inside an old card catalog cabinet on the main floor of the Huntington Beach Central Library lies a Garden of Eden just waiting to be planted — after a long pandemic closure, the seed ...

The library catalog has gone digital, but that doesn’t mean all the old oaken card catalog cabinets have been flung on the ash heap of history. Fans of the TV series The Big Bang Theory have ...

Pomona library brings back the card catalog to… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) ...

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 ...

A new book from the Library of Congress celebrates these catalogs as the analog ancestor of the search engine. There's a huge card catalog in the basement of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C ...