On Thursday, the Online Computer Library Center, the Ohio-based company that had printed catalog cards for public and university libraries for more than 40 years, said it had just printed its last ...

If you do a Google search for "card catalog" it will likely return Pinterest-worthy images of antique furniture for sale — boxy, wooden cabinets with tiny drawers, great for storing knick-knacks, ...

They are nearly extinct in their natural habitat. In the James Library & Center for the Arts in Norwell, one maintains its position at the end of a large bookcase near the center of the room, its ...

Men working at linotype machines in the Card Division Printing Office of the Library of Congress (c. 1900-1920), from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards and Literary Treasures by the Library of Congress, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the twentieth century, millions of ...

Woman at Main Reading Room Card Catalog, Library of Congress, circa 1930s. As National Library Week begins — it runs from April 9–15 this year — the Library of Congress looks back at the ancestor 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.

With the spring planting season underway, area libraries invite patrons to check out something besides the latest new bestseller or DVD – seeds. Housed in repurposed card catalogs, seed libraries ...

This book about card catalogs, written and published in cooperation with the Library of Congress, is beautifully produced, intelligently written and lavishly illustrated. It also sent me into a ...

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 Chronicle ...

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 purpose ...