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 ...

WASHINGTON — It probably arrived in the Washington Community High School library in the 1950s or 1960s, at a time when every library had to have one. But it hadn't been used for its intended ...

"The card catalog was a way of managing this increase ... Sponsor Message Cataloging wasn't always neat and tidy — even for the old Congressional Library. An Annual Report from 1897 depicted ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Library of Congress just released a book ... Today, some of them are turning old, abandoned card catalogs into art projects. (Meanwhile, they’ve also become a staple of interior design ...

They were removed from Suzzallo -- the campus' main library -- during its ... sales manager for the 128-year-old company. Even the hardware for the card catalogs -- such as the metal plates ...

No one has flipped through the card catalog in half a decade ... industrial respirators for the group's recent tour of the old library. A thick musty odor wafted from the back door when Calvello ...

Renee Houston Zemanski of Annapolis, owner of The Periwinkle Door, repurposed an old library card catalog drawer into a shelf at Local By Design in Annapolis. She and other artisans create ...

She organizes the drawers in the catalog, which was repurposed for the seed library. “The envelopes fit in really well. It’s a throwback to the days of the card catalog,” she said.