card catalogue

The card catalogue was once located where desks are now.

With Burns’s opus, my chosen profession had just pole-vaulted into the Golden Era of history film documentary, while I was still using library card catalogues and reading dead people’s mail.

They sighed as if I had suggested they spend the day memorizing the library’s card catalogue system.

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.

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