(CNN) — It’s time to file the library catalog card under "O," for "obsolete." On Thursday, the Online Computer Library Center, the Ohio-based company that had printed catalog cards for public and ...

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, ...

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