The Library of Congress just released a book on the history of the card catalog, and while I can physically feel you clicking away from this article even as I type, I am here to tell you that The ...

The Library of Congress' gargantuan Card Distribution Service influenced how we organize information even today. The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures, published by Chronicle ...

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.

This book about card catalogues, written and published in cooperation with the Library of Congress, is beautifully produced, intelligently written and lavishly illustrated. It also sent me into a ...

The Library of Congress has made 25 million digital catalog records available for anyone to use at no charge. The free data set includes records from 1968 to 2014. This is the largest release of ...

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 ...

Library of Congress Library of Congress Data Processing Office, 1964. Library of Congress Woman at Main Reading Room Card Catalog, Library of Congress, circa 1930s. Jack Delano—Library of Congress ...

The Birds of America; from Original Drawings, from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures by the Library of Congress, published by Chronicle Books 2017 Moby Dick; or, the Whale ...

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.

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.

In the basement catalog at the Library of Congress, Hayden pulls out a card for her favorite childhood book — Bright April by Marguerite De Angeli, about a young Girl Scout. "It was the first book ...

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.