While many students spent last summer trying to get as far away from Cornell’s libraries as possible, the Cornell University library system completed a 32-year-long retrospective conversion, or “recon ...

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 out in ...

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, ...

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, ...

If you are like me, you likely remember thumbing through card catalogs and jotting down call numbers to find books on certain topics for research projects or books by your favorite author to read for ...

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 ...