Apps are all the rage—from tic tac toe to bus schedules and weather conditions. Apps, also known as applications, are what makes smart phones among the fastest growing technological gizmos. Now the ...

A woman using the card catalog at the main reading room of the Library of Congress, circa 1940. Photo: Library of Congress OCLC printed its last library catalog cards on October 1, 2015, ending an era ...

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, ...

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.

For National Library Week, explore the tools of a vintage library circulation desk. In 1918, they might not have had computers to circulate and track library books, but their paper-based systems were ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON — Henriette D. Avram, whose far-reaching work at the Library of Congress replaced ink-on-paper card catalogs and revolutionized cataloging systems at libraries worldwide, died April 22 of ...

My mind is going a million miles a minute over the whole “Perfect Search” discussion that kicked off this week. Instead of getting it all out now, I plan to do in small doses while at the same time, ...

As National Library Week begins — it runs from April 9–15 this year — the Library of Congress looks back at the ancestor of the card catalog, in this excerpt from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and ...

From library guides to the bureaucratic era:an introduction -- Temporary indexing -- Around 1800. The first card index? -- Thinking in boxes -- American arrival -- Around 1900. Institutional ...

For the past six years, donations to the Pomona Public Library Foundation have kept the Homework Club and summer excursions going, as well as providing new materials. To recognize those donors, the ...

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.