card catalogue
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The card catalogue was once located where desks are now.
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With Burns’s opus, my chosen profession had just pole-vaulted into the Golden Era of history film documentary, while I was still using library card catalogues and reading dead people’s mail.
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They sighed as if I had suggested they spend the day memorizing the library’s card catalogue system.
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They took jaunts to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, where in pre-Internet days, she taught her daughters how to use a card catalogue.
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The library housed one of the search engines of our time: the card catalogue.
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