For example, if one wanted to find out how the library holdings changed as the university admitted its first women and first African American students, the card catalog would be the only place to find ...

Guest author Mark Sample discusses the use of SMS and RSS to give you new ways to manage your library. ProfHacker: Hacking Your Library’s Catalog: SMS and RSS ...

Restoration Hardware created its own version of a card catalog for storing CDs, for example. In addition to the card catalogs at today's sale, Suzzallo Library has about 25 more to sell at a later ...

The Birds of America; from Original Drawings, from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures by the Library of Congress, published by Chronicle Books 2017 Moby Dick; or, the Whale ...

For many, the idea of a library catalog conjures up the image of card catalogs. The descriptions contained in catalog records are “metadata” – information about information.

The crawler-compiled card catalog will let you scan every word on every page of every book in the library. Let’s stop using the term “card catalogs.” They haven’t existed in years. In an overwhelming ...

To the right of the library’s front door, a blocky 72-drawer oak card catalog that holds the secrets to the library’s more than 75,000 volumes still has pride of place.

Today, people use the antique wooden cabinets to store their knick-knacks. But these card catalogs once held the keys to a world of information. A new Library of Congress book explores their history.

In an 1898 card catalog handbook, Melvil Dewey even gave instructions on what types of cursive should be used by catalogers on handwritten cards. “Legibility is the main consideration,” he wrote.

For many, the idea of a library catalog conjures up the image of card catalogs. ... For example, when the Library of Congress purchased Thomas Jefferson’s personal library in 1815, ...

Today, people use the antique wooden cabinets to store their knick-knacks. But these card catalogs once held the keys to a world of information. A new Library of Congress book explores their history.