Library card catalog

For when you need to explain catalog cards to kids who can't imagine how we ever found books before there were computers!

It really hasn't changed - From card catalog to data base. From Card Catalog To The Book On The Shelf

I never would have guessed Joan Rivers and I would have anything in common. But there is something we have both loved doing for over thirty years.

You are all probably old enough to remember finding books in the library using cards kind of like this one. (Thanks to John Blyberg's library card generator for the image.) There were three ways you could look up a book in the card catalog: title, author, or subject. The title card for a book of…

I saw a VERY cool project on this website: Library Card Catalog for the home!! I found this amazing, HUGE card catalog on Craigslist. Apparently it used to be housed in the UCLA Life Science Library. (Isn't it beautiful?) I bought it on an impulse, and figured I'd learn how to turn it into my masterpiece later. I am not the "handy' type so I fully expected to outsource most/all of the work. But when asked a few handymen if they would help me, they all said it wouldn't be economically worth…

vintage library card catalog-would be perfect in shed for Joe's seed organization

Paul Courant, the dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan, sits in front of a card catalog in the stacks of the Hatcher Graduate ...

Your choice of 6 authentic vintage cards from an old library card catalog. The theme of the cards will be custom-selected by YOU. I will be happy to work with you to select 6 cards from a large stock of fiction and nonfiction titles from many decades. Dating from the 1920s to the 2000s, they have an interesting variety of styles, type faces, librarian notations, and aged tones for your projects. What types of themes are available? The ideas are only limited by your imagination, but they…