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 ...

Starting with what looks like an old card catalog file — hands up if you’ve ever greedily eyed a defunct card catalog in a library and wondered if it would fit in your shop for parts storage ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...