NOUN
- an alphabetical listing of items (e.g., books in a library) with a separate card for each item
- a library catalog in which each publication is described on a separate file card
How To Use card catalog In A Sentence
- Hence he gave communities libraries, lock, stock and card catalog.
- A survey has been designed and carried out to assess the extent of library materials within the group that remain either on card catalogue or indeed completely uncatalogued.
- Cards are thus equivalent to entries for books in the main card catalogue. 4.
- The sculptural effect is monumental and anti-monumental at the same time -- think of a giant-sized card catalog suspended at eye level, but just the cards between two thin metal rails -- no card catalog bureau. ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010
- But--here's the catch--you still had a card catalog, and when you "cataloged" in OCLC, you still ordered your cards from LC. Cataloging in the Digital Age
- “I have a unique, non-duplicable card catalogue of the DNA of these great personages,” Reznikoff told me. A Claim to Camelot
- Library card catalogs are a well-established type of metadata, and they have served as collection management and resource discovery tools for decades.
- Shall WE go to the card catalog or directly to the stack room?
- If this argument sounds like Nicholson Baker's argument about card catalogs, well, it is: we're looking at another computer-based substitution of binarism which is at the root of everything computer for serendipity, with all the losses and gains entailed therein. Technological Reading
- This was the prime objective and the closing of the card catalogue was a consequence.
