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card catalog

noun

a file of cards of uniform size arranged in some definite order and listing the items in the collection of a library or group of libraries, each card typically identifying a single item.

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

The burden upon the memory that this elaborate system of old must have entailed is now transferred to the card catalog.

Any subject that needed to be kept track of could be thus securely noted in the card catalog.

All of these card-catalog and other "devices" are a part of a great movement to put efficiency into every human industry.

Not so I take it with the person who ordinarily consults the card catalog of a public library.

A meeting was held there of the Publishing Board's committee on rules for a printed card catalog.

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