card catalog

Example Sentences

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I found myself longing to hear less from the card catalog, and more from Cowan’s mother.

From New York Times

She has an encyclopedic knowledge of the garden and can connect plants to historical anecdotes as if recalling a card catalog number.

From Los Angeles Times

In interviews, curators at the Ethnological Museum said some collections still use card catalogs from the 1960s, or even handwritten 19th-century ledgers.

From New York Times

And each chapter begins with a list of book titles, authors, publication dates and call numbers, shown in a typewriter-like font, like cards in an old card catalog.

From Seattle Times

Vivli could resolve that problem, he says, by serving as a clinical data "card catalog."

From Science Magazine