HAYWARD — City librarians have found a new purpose for those old card catalog cabinets, a throwback to the days before computers began helping patrons locate books — which they are checking out in ...

They are nearly extinct in their natural habitat. In the James Library & Center for the Arts in Norwell, one maintains its position at the end of a large bookcase near the center of the room, its ...

Nestled inside an old card catalog cabinet on the main floor of the Huntington Beach Central Library lies a Garden of Eden just waiting to be planted — after a long pandemic closure, the seed library ...

For the past six years, donations to the Pomona Public Library Foundation have kept the Homework Club and summer excursions going, as well as providing new materials. To recognize those donors, the ...

(CNN) — It’s time to file the library catalog card under "O," for "obsolete." On Thursday, the Online Computer Library Center, the Ohio-based company that had printed catalog cards for public and ...

The card catalog in the UTSA Library is gone—forever! How can materials be found without a card catalog? Simple. Just use the new, online computer catalog. For those unfamiliar with using computer ...

Relied upon by generations of students to find books for term papers, research projects and pleasure, the University of Washington's card catalogs no longer are crammed with index cards worn by ...

If you are like me, you likely remember thumbing through card catalogs and jotting down call numbers to find books on certain topics for research projects or books by your favorite author to read for ...

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 ...

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 ...