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 ...

The Library of Congress just released a book on the history of the card catalog, and while I can physically ... and geographically (beginning with Northern parts of the globe and ending with ...

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 ...

It also sent me into a week-long depression. If you are a book lover of a certain age, it might do the same to you. “The Card Catalog” is many things: a lucid overview of the history of ...

The card catalog for the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library was once the only way to find needed books. Over four million cards cataloged each book’s location and from where it was donated.

Cutter attributed the 1861 development of the card catalog to Ezra Abbot (1819–1884), assistant librarian of Harvard College. Although neither the book catalog nor the card catalog meets all needs as ...

Some people collect stamps, some collect barbed wire, and some people even collect little bits of silicon and plastic. But the charmingly named [videoschmideo] collects memories, mostly of his ...

Changes happen in the library world fast. There were the days of the card catalog, when you had to look up books by title, author or subject and you only knew what the library you were visiting ...