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 ...

But now, the final toll of the old-fashioned reference system ... writes Gearino, the school’s library only uses its card catalog as a backup for its computerized one.

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 ...

If you do a Google search for "card catalog ... library. Typewritten cards started appearing at the end of the 19th century. Sponsor Message Cataloging wasn't always neat and tidy — even for the ...

The Library of Congress ... over the tactility of physical catalogs and the browsing that they inspired. Today, some of them are turning old, abandoned card catalogs into art projects.

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 ...