The Mundaneum had a catalog of about18 million index cards, which took 15,000 drawers to hold. This became overwhelming by the 1930s, just before the Mundaneum's decline.

Catalog cabinets could be found recently selling on eBay for $159.19 for a vintage four-drawer office desk-top model in the United Kingdom to $850 for a 72-drawer index card file cabinet in ...

The index card was a product of the Enlightenment, conceived by one of its towering figures: Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist, physician, and the father of modern taxonomy.

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Well, that's adorable. Card catalog cabinets have also been used as convenient sort-and-store devices for scarves, jewelry, flatware, tools and hardware, art supplies — and just about anything ...

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HAYWARD — City librarians have found a new purpose for those old card catalog cabinets, a throwback to the days before computers began helping patrons locate books — which they are checking ...

(CNN) -- It's time to file the library catalog card under "O," for "obsolete."On Thursday, the Online Computer Library Center, the Ohio-based company that had printed catalog cards for public and ...

Card catalogs from The Mundaneum, an analog version of the Internet, created in part by Paul Otlet.(Photo: Zinneke / WikiCommons) On Sunday, Google marked the 147th birthday of Paul Otlet (1868 ...