card catalogue
Example Sentences
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They sighed as if I had suggested they spend the day memorizing the library’s card catalogue system.
From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2021
The card catalogue was slated to be discarded during a massive library renovation.
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
