While many students spent last summer trying to get as far away from Cornell’s libraries as possible, the Cornell University library system completed a 32-year-long retrospective conversion, or “recon ...
WASHINGTON — Henriette D. Avram, whose far-reaching work at the Library of Congress replaced ink-on-paper card catalogs and revolutionized cataloging systems at libraries worldwide, died April 22 of ...
From library guides to the bureaucratic era:an introduction -- Temporary indexing -- Around 1800. The first card index? -- Thinking in boxes -- American arrival -- Around 1900. Institutional ...
The card catalog system was designed to bring order to chaos, said Peter Devereaux, the author of a book about card catalogs. The idea originated during the French Revolution, by using playing cards ...
Well it's an electronic catalog anyway...<BR><BR>UCLA Library... www.library.ucla.edu... only I'm at the library using a terminal here, so it should be fast right?<BR><BR>Type in my search... "phoenix ...