2024年12月4日 · This guide discusses the origins, history, and continuing research value of the Library of Congress card catalog, the predecessor to the Library's current online catalog.

A catalog card is an individual entry in a library catalog containing bibliographic information, including the author's name, title, and location. Eventually the mechanization of the modern era brought the efficiencies of card catalogs. It was around 1780 …

WorldCat.org is a global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.

2023年10月18日 · This guide discusses the origins and history of the Library's monumental card catalog, and also describes how researchers can continue to use it productively to search for books and periodicals published through 1980.

2014年2月27日 · A card catalogue is a systematic and manual method of organizing and cataloging information about the books and resources available in a library. Before the digital age, libraries employed this physical cataloging system to …

2023年8月1日 · Vintage card catalogs are a treasure chest of nostalgia and history, reminiscent of a time before digital databases and search engines. These elegant, wood-crafted containers once lined libraries worldwide, their neat rows of drawers …

2024年12月4日 · This guide discusses the origins, history, and continuing research value of the Library of Congress card catalog, the predecessor to the Library's current online catalog.

Complete the Library of Congress Reader Card Permission Form– Minor Teenagers and bring the signed document to obtain a library card. For questions about this process, call 202-707-5278. Please note that the library card does not permit minors to access all materials in all Library research centers.

2017年7月24日 · The library card catalog was one of the most versatile and durable technologies in history—a veritable road map for navigating a “wilderness of books”—says Peter Devereaux of the Library’s Publishing Office.

In 1860 Harvard Librarian John Langdon Sibley proposes a card catalog for public use as a method of keeping the library's catalog up to date. Assistant Librarian Ezra Abbot takes on the task of designing a card catalog that could be easily …