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The Old Card Catalog: Collaborative Effort Will Preserve
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7 hours ago The Old Card Catalog: Collaborative Effort Will Preserve Its History. Sanjay Suchak , [email protected]. As preparations continue for …

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Card Catalog  Card Design
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2 hours ago The Old Card Catalog: Collaborative Effort Will Preserve Its .. card catalog – What if I don’t accept an defalcation or my absolute is beneath than …

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The Missing Purse: Time Capsule of 1993 Life at UVA Found
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7 hours ago The Old Card Catalog: Collaborative Effort Will Preserve Its History Exhibit Celebrates Black Sisterhood Through the Centuries Digging into the Archives, UVA Library Brings Old Folksong Recordings to Light

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Evolution of the Card Catalog  Library History Buff
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9 hours ago The card catalog cabinet illustrated below is from a 1925 Library Bureau supply catalog. Click here for information on the current use of old card catalog cabinets. Sources: "A History of the Card Catalog" by Sandy Brooks in Whole Library Handbook 3 compiled by George M. Eberhart. American Library Association 2000.

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Casteen Steers to Retirement, But Still Studies Sagas and
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Just Now The Old Card Catalog: Collaborative Effort Will Preserve Its History Hurricane Camille and Madison House at UVA Are Forever Intertwined 2010 in Review: After 20 Years, Casteen Sails Into the Sunset

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10 Fun Uses for Old Card Catalogs  Mental Floss
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1 hours ago The library catalog has gone digital, but that doesn’t mean all the old oaken card catalog cabinets have been flung on the ash heap of history.

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Card Catalog Cabinets  Library History Buff
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5 hours ago The April, 2002 issue of American Libraries included a picture and brief sidebar about the use of an old card catalog by an elementary school library as a focal point in the children's room. The drawers were opened and stuffed literary characters including Pooh, Clifford, and Wild Thing were placed in them.

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The key to removing a card catalog rod (literally)  The
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3 hours ago Thanks for all the great guesses at the identity of the December Crocodile!In fact, the mystery object is a tool for removing the rod from a particular type of card catalog drawer (see Folgerpedia‘s Card catalogs article for information about our card catalogs and how to use them).. Tool for pulling out this type of card catalog drawer rod.

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Vintage card catalogs at the library  and how we used
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7 hours ago The card catalog is a file cabinet containing cards. This is actually similar to the index of a book. Every title owned in the library system is listed in the card catalog, and to make it even easier, each title has more than one card. A fiction book has one card with the author’s name on the top line, and another card with the title on the

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Digging into the Archives, UVA Library Brings Old Folksong
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9 hours ago The Old Card Catalog: Collaborative Effort Will Preserve Its History Jazz Master Helps Open the Ears of Students, So They Really Hear the Music 19 Treasures From UVA’s Special Collections Library

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Card Catalog's History is Focus of New Library Publication
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5 hours ago A new book exploring the history of the card catalog, that venerated chest of small drawers that contained the known universe, has been published by the Library of Congress in association with Chronicle Books. The lavishly illustrated volume tells the story of libraries’ organizing approaches—from the layout of papyrus scrolls at the Library of Alexandria and …

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A Mission to Save UVA Library's Card Catalog  WVTF
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Just Now Curtis came across the card, but Lemley says there was no electronic record of its existence. “That information didn’t make it into Virgo, which is …

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The Evolution of Card Catalogs in a Public Library Setting
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6 hours ago The computerized card catalog may not only appeal to those in search of information. In 1994, author Nicholson Baker published an article about irreplaceable library card catalogs in The New Yorker, focusing on how printed card catalogs lose the endearing notations of individual cards written by librarians.

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What the Death of the Card Catalog Taught Us about Data
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7 hours ago And a new watershed was reached less than two years ago when the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) printed its very last catalog card. It had been producing them since 1971, shipping out up to eight tons of catalog cards each week — and over the years it had printed more than 1.9 billion cards.

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8 Repurposed Card Catalogs  Two Twenty One
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6 hours ago The ‘newer’ card catalogs don’t have as much value as the more vintage ones. The value also depends on which library the card catalog lived it’s life in. I saw one from the Harvard Law Library for a WHOPPING $5,000! I think you should make it your own! Have fun with it! Fill it with beautiful treasures.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is an old library card catalog?

A catalog in an old library could be expected to have handwritten cards for its oldest holdings and cards for successive changes of cataloging rules. So the cards were not uniform in layout, appearance, or the information they contained.

Who made card catalogs?

Both catalog card stock and card catalog cabinets were marketed by Library Bureau, the library supply company founded by Melvil Dewey. The company was legally established in 1881although its predecessors date back to 1876. By 1886 the Library Bureau had an extensive line of products related to card catalogs.

What size rods for vintage library card catalog drawer?

Vintage Library Card Catalog 45 Drawer Funky And Cool! Pair of 16" Rods for Library Card Catalog Drawer. Vintage Card Catalog Library Cabinet Wood Drawer File box MANY AVAILABLE!

What size were card catalogs in 1925?

By 1925 the American library card catalog had substantially evolved and standardized catalog cards (7.5 x 12.5 cm) in standardized card catalog cabinets were in widespread use. The card catalog cabinet illustrated below is from a 1925 Library Bureau supply catalog.

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