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EVERETT — It’s a chance to own a replica of original art or of cartoon monsters. Small, yes, but mighty — and totally free. The Everett Public Library offers patrons more than a utilitarian card to ...

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, ...

The audience which listened last evening to Mr. W. C. Lane's talk on the uses of our library catalogue, went away convinced of the complexity of our system of catalogueing books, but nevertheless with ...

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.

Wicklow County Library's catalogue was launched onto the world wide web this week. Now library members may log on to www.wicklow.ie to search for any book they need. The library's catalogue may be ...

Traditionally, you need a library card to access physical books and library facilities. But in today’s digital world, things have changed, as we all know. Today, we read e-books on e-readers, thus ...

Imagine the world as a library. And every single thing in the world has to be documented, just like all the books in the library. If you did this, you'd end up with an enormous card catalogue that ...

The card catalog was slated to be discarded during a massive library renovation. Small wonder: It hadn’t been updated in two decades, it sat mostly unused, and it would cost hundreds of thousands of ...