HAYWARD — City librarians have found a new purpose for those old card catalog cabinets, a throwback to the days before computers began helping patrons locate books — which they are checking ...

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.

They are the wooden card catalog cabinets, once an essential component of town and school libraries. Now they are mostly relics of the past, repurposed in some cases to hold recipes, display ...

Today and tomorrow, the university will sell 142 Suzzallo Library card catalogs. ... the wooden cabinets have been replaced by computers, electronic databases and the Internet.

Vintage furniture sale helps library’s renovation efforts The Friends of the Glendale Library held a furniture and furnishings sale at the Central Library in Glendale on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014.

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, ...