In an 1898 card catalog handbook, Melvil Dewey even gave instructions on what types of cursive should be used by catalogers on handwritten cards. “Legibility is the main consideration,” he wrote.

(CNN) -- 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 and ...

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, ... For example, if one wanted to ...

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.

This excerpt from 'The Card Catalog: ... It is in this library, dedicated to arts, intellectual exploration, and the advancement of science, that one finds the true precursor to the card catalog.

Each one is a perfect melding of design and utility, ... ‘The Card Catalog’ is a paean to the Library of Congress and a collection of bookish trivia. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

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 ...

Sheldon repurposed one on the Big Bang Theory. Here are some of the novel ways creative people (including many librarians) have renewed card catalogs.

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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 ...