card catalogue

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They took jaunts to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, where in pre-Internet days, she taught her daughters how to use a card catalogue.

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The library housed one of the search engines of our time: the card catalogue.

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I was thrilled to read about the graduate students at the University of Virginia who decided to save library card catalogues there and discovered so much in the process.

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For the next 120 minutes, he declared, he was going to read aloud the contents of the card catalogue, which itemized every object in his home.

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They later ran Two Harolds Antiques in Alexandria for more than a decade and owned a collection of thousands of signed first editions so extensive that they kept an in-house card catalogue.

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