card catalogue

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U-Va.’s card catalogue spanned 50 years, from the 1930s to the late 1980s.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2019

Toward the end of the book, in the closing “Yport,” Groff pokes fun at a fiction writer: “She’s a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one-woman card catalogue for useless knowledge.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2018

A national card catalogue system was the original “search engine” — one that needed no electricity, no service providers or broadband or smartphones, and that was truly democratic.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2017

At its height, Otlet’s card catalogue contained fifteen million entries, and the Mundaneum operated via a rudimentary system of “file cabinets, telegraph machines, and a small army of clerical workers.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2014

Mrs. Kenyon handed us a slip of paper with the names of three books to look up in the card catalogue.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri