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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. This book about card catalogs, written and published in cooperation with the ...

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, ...

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 ...

I went to Shields Library recently to use the card catalog, only to find it in the process of being dismantled and discarded. The reason I was going to use the card catalog illustrates why I am ...

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

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.