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 ...

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 ...

FALCONER – With the movement of Falconer Public Library’s wooden library card catalog to the lobby of the Falconer Community Building on Aug. 17, an entire era of library history ended. “The card ...

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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.

Relied upon by generations of students to find books for term papers, research projects and pleasure, the University of Washington's card catalogs no longer are crammed with index cards worn by ...

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 ...

It all began with the “Dewey Decimal” system, then came the card catalog. Now, Madison County Library branches are using the Internet to provide a faster and more informative way to search what is ...

Tell us what you think. E-mail comments or questions to the editors at [email protected]. Ever wonder about those strange designations we use throughout Northwestern to identify alumni of the ...