card catalogue
Example Sentences
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They walked into the school’s Alderman Library and promised they wouldn’t leave that night until they had found a way to save the old card catalogue.
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
He opened the closet, and there was a library card catalogue inside.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
