Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. The Library of Congress just ...

The audience which listened last evening to Mr. W. C. Lane's talk on the uses of our library catalogue, went away convinced of the complexity of our system of catalogueing books, but nevertheless with ...

The library catalog will be down for maintenance Monday, August 15 and Tuesday, August 16 starting at 7 a.m. Some library services will not be available online or at our branch locations. You know, ...

This book about card catalogues, written and published in cooperation with the Library of Congress, is beautifully produced, intelligently written and lavishly illustrated. It also sent me into a week ...

The card catalog for the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library was once the only way to find needed books. Over four million cards cataloged each book’s location and from where it was donated.

They are nearly extinct in their natural habitat. In the James Library & Center for the Arts in Norwell, one maintains its position at the end of a large bookcase near the center of the room, its ...

With the spring planting season underway, area libraries invite patrons to check out something besides the latest new bestseller or DVD – seeds. Housed in repurposed card catalogs, seed libraries ...

Shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday, an era ended. About a dozen people gathered in a basement workroom to watch as a machine printed the final sheets of library catalog cards to be made by Dublin-based ...

WASHINGTON — It probably arrived in the Washington Community High School library in the 1950s or 1960s, at a time when every library had to have one. But it hadn't been used for its intended purpose ...

They’d just finished setting up projectors to create a replica of the planetarium Thomas Jefferson had envisioned spanning the University of Virginia’s Rotunda dome when Neal Curtis and Sam Lemley ...