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If you do a Google search for "card catalog" it will likely return Pinterest-worthy images of antique furniture for sale — boxy, wooden cabinets with tiny drawers, great for storing knick-knacks, ...
A woman using the card catalog at the main reading room of the Library of Congress, circa 1940. Photo: Library of Congress OCLC printed its last library catalog cards on October 1, 2015, ending an era ...
The Library of Congress announced the largest release of digital records in its history on Tuesday. It will make 25 million records from its catalog available for the public to download. Prior to this ...
As National Library Week begins — it runs from April 9–15 this year — the Library of Congress looks back at the ancestor of the card catalog, in this excerpt from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and ...
An emoji-tastic version of the classic novel has garnered itself a spot in the Library of Congress. The early-rate deadline for Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Awards is Friday, September 5, ...
Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The Library Quarterly (LQ) embraces a wide array of original research perspectives, approaches, and quantitative, ...
Staffers at the Library of Congress have been looking for 250 books that belonged to Thomas Jefferson. He gave these books and several thousand more to start the library more than 200 years ago. For ...
You don’t have to travel Washington, D.C. or peruse some 838 miles of shelves to visit the Library of Congress. Among the library’s 167 million items are rare books, photographs, historical recordings ...
The Library of Congress has a splashy new logo—and people are pissed The only reason people could ever be mad at a library: a new logo. Twitter’s new character limit helped kill off a very cool ...
In 2010, the Library of Congress and Twitter announced a historic and incongruous partnership: Together, they would archive and preserve every tweet ever posted, creating a massive store of short-form ...