But now, the final toll of the old-fashioned reference system’s death knell has rung for good: The library cooperative that printed and provided catalog cards has officially called it quits on ...

Photo courtesy the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Library. In Spring 2012, Jen Caruso’s students at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design used an old card catalog to create a ...

But the card catalog served a useful purpose in its final years at the high school. Gross has a five-year cycle of checking each of the library's 10,000 to 12,000 books to weed out those that are ...

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.

The Card Catalog makes a persuasive case that cataloging knowledge is fundamental to the acquisition and spread of knowledge, and that a working library catalog is, in some ways, a basic necessity ...

So she said a trustee found an old card catalog and bought it for the library. She said the drawers are just the right size to store the seed packets. “The card catalog is back,” she said.

Shreve Memorial Library’s online catalog has tons of cool new features that, I must admit, are a far improvement over the card catalogs of old. One of my favorite features of the library’s ...

It’s time to file the library catalog card under “O,” for “obsolete.” On Thursday, the Online Computer Library Center, the Ohio-based company that had printed catalog cards for public ...

For example, the Catawba County, N.C., Library System recently began using an app, called LS2 Mobile, to give its registered patrons access to its catalog of available books and other media.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Students from Maple Avenue Middle School and Saratoga Springs High School have a new art exhibit at Saratoga Springs Public Library that is not only creative and well-displ… ...