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The Verge: US Copyright Office considers stopgap scanning solution for card catalog due to ‘rudimentary budget’

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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 ...

US Copyright Office considers stopgap scanning solution for card catalog due to ‘rudimentary budget’

NPR: File This Under Nostalgia: New Book Pays Tribute To The Library Card Catalog

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, ...

File This Under Nostalgia: New Book Pays Tribute To The Library Card Catalog

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, ...

CBS 58 News: The library catalog card? Time to pull it from the files

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(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 ...

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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.

Smithsonian Magazine: The Librarian of Congress Weighs In on Why Card Catalogs Matter

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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 ...