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card catalog






card catalog   
noun

Definition of card catalog

: a catalog (as of books) in which the entries are arranged systematically on cards



Recent Examples on the Web


//Today, researchers can skip the experience of rummaging through card catalogs, or wearing white gloves while staring at delicate 35mm film.
— Andrea Weiss, The Atlantic, "Creating the First Visual History of Queer Life Before Stonewall," 30 June 2019
//Gay or lesbian images were not yet identified or categorized as such in the card catalogs of libraries.
— Andrea Weiss, The Atlantic, "Creating the First Visual History of Queer Life Before Stonewall," 30 June 2019
//Using Otlet's Universal Decimal Classification, the two men and their staff created an index card catalog with bibliographies on every card.
— Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, "How the Humble Index Card Foresaw the Internet," 11 Feb. 2016
//Remnants of its card catalog still exist today at theMundaneum museum in Mons, Belgium.
— Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, "How the Humble Index Card Foresaw the Internet," 11 Feb. 2016
//There is a library with a card catalog, a 1950s National Geographic set and Monopoly and Scrabble games circa-1930.
— Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, "To Help Alzheimer’s Patients, a Care Center Re-Creates the 1950s," 18 Sep. 2018
//So many that there are two yard-long card catalog drawers full of card entries of old textbooks.
— David Frese, kansascity, "Are you smarter than a Kansas 7th-grader of 100 years ago?," 29 Jan. 2018
//The card catalog was a revolutionary tool for organizing information.
— Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, "The Librarian of Congress Weighs In on Why Card Catalogs Matter," 19 May 2017
//The drawers are jammed with jokes typed on 4-by-6-inch cards — 52 drawers, stacked waist-high, like a card catalog of a certain comedian’s life’s work, a library of laughs.
— James Barron, New York Times, "Sorting Through All the Laughs Joan Rivers Left Behind," 22 Oct. 2017


First Known Use of card catalog

1854, in the meaning defined above



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