card catalogue

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But the card catalogue provides “an accurate, preserved-in-amber view of what the library was in the 20th century,” and what interested scholars, Lemley said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2019

Toward the end of the book, in the closing “Yport,” Groff pokes fun at a fiction writer: “She’s a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one-woman card catalogue for useless knowledge.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2018

In my mind, Beltsville is no longer just that place with an agricultural library building that looks like Paul Bunyan’s card catalogue.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2015

At its height, Otlet’s card catalogue contained fifteen million entries, and the Mundaneum operated via a rudimentary system of “file cabinets, telegraph machines, and a small army of clerical workers.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2014

In the downstairs Art Room the librarian helped them find the books which Claudia selected from the card catalogue.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg