Unlike the modern search tool for post-1978 copyrights, the virtual card catalog (mockup pictured below) wouldn’t include the metadata necessary for meaningful search, but it would at least allow ...

Tell us what you think. E-mail comments or questions to the editors at letters@northwestern.edu. Ever wonder about those strange designations we use throughout Northwestern to identify alumni of the ...

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 ...

The Card Catalog: Books, Cards and Literary Treasures by the Library of Congress, published by Chronicle Books 2017. With 162 million items—including more than 38 million books—the Library of Congress ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...