card catalogue
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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U-Va.’s card catalogue spanned 50 years, from the 1930s to the late 1980s.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2019
Toward the end of the book, in the closing “Yport,” Groff pokes fun at a fiction writer: “She’s a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one-woman card catalogue for useless knowledge.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2018
In my mind, Beltsville is no longer just that place with an agricultural library building that looks like Paul Bunyan’s card catalogue.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2015
At its height, Otlet’s card catalogue contained fifteen million entries, and the Mundaneum operated via a rudimentary system of “file cabinets, telegraph machines, and a small army of clerical workers.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2014
In the downstairs Art Room the librarian helped them find the books which Claudia selected from the card catalogue.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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