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.

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GREENFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Once central to any quest to locate books within a library, the fate of card catalogs was sealed with the rise of the Internet and computer searches, relegating many of those ...

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 ...

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 ...

Woman at Main Reading Room Card Catalog, Library of Congress, circa 1930s. As National Library Week begins — it runs from April 9–15 this year — the Library of Congress looks back at the ancestor of ...

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, ...