It’s been a long time since most libraries were filled with card catalogs — drawers upon drawers of paper cards with information about books. But now, the final toll of the old-fashioned ...

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 ...

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 ...

Norwell Public Library has an old card catalog cabinet that is used to hold seed packets for a seed-lending program. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff/Globe Staff ...

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 ...

(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 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 ...

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.

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.

(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 ...

The library catalog card? Time to pull it from the files Posted: Oct 3, 2015 / 04:07 PM CDT Updated: Oct 3, 2015 / 04:07 PM CDT FILE — A woman works amongst stacks of card cataloges at the ...