card catalogue
Britishnoun
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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
An old-fashioned card catalogue for the president’s executive orders.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2016
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
He opened the closet, and there was a library card catalogue inside.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
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