It’s been a long time since most libraries were filled with card catalogs — drawers upon drawers of paper cards with information about books. But now, the final toll of the old-fashioned reference ...

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, ...

You're scouring your favorite shops for thrift store finds you can transform into beautiful garden decor when you spot it: A vintage card catalog, just like the one you flipped through as a child. Not ...

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 ...

The card catalog was slated to be discarded during a massive library renovation. Small wonder: It hadn’t been updated in two decades, it sat mostly unused, and it would cost hundreds of thousands of ...

The year was 1997. The place was Chillicothe, Ohio, nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. I was hired as a library clerk at the Chillicothe and Ross County Public Library. My new ...

Today, people use the antique wooden cabinets to store their knick-knacks. But these card catalogs once held the keys to a world of information. A new Library of Congress book explores their history.