How to Use card catalog in a Sentence

card catalog

noun

• Sparks sign from the former nightclub, cast-iron sewing table in the kitchen, an old-school library card catalog in the art room and more.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2021
• This research was old-school, going to card catalogs and finding out how many of these books there were.
  — John Williams, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020
• So many that there are two yard-long card catalog drawers full of card entries of old textbooks.
  — David Frese, kansascity, 29 Jan. 2018
• Filson did his part, digging through a card catalog for Charleston’s entry, then pulling out one of about 15 maps of the cemetery.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Nov. 2020
• The drawers are jammed with jokes typed on 4-by-6-inch cards — 52 drawers, stacked waist-high, like a card catalog of a certain comedian’s life’s work, a library of laughs.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2017
• Many of us who remember going to libraries and using the card catalog connect it with a sense of discovery.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 19 May 2017
• This wasn’t so in the 1950s, when schedulers went through racks of index cards, each with a particular flight’s info, all stored in what resembled a library card catalog.
  — Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2022
• In an 1890s card catalog in his office, the loose finger of a plaster Jesus shares a drawer with Duracell batteries.
  — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2021
• Gay or lesbian images were not yet identified or categorized as such in the card catalogs of libraries.
  — Andrea Weiss, The Atlantic, 30 June 2019
• Guests are going to have fun looking at original library ledgers; library cards through the decades; an A-1 Steak Sauce Mystery display; an antique card catalog complete with vintage checkout cards and due date slips; and stamps.
  — cleveland, 15 Jan. 2021
• Most seed libraries, however, are in public libraries of the book persuasion, generally open during the hours the library is open, with seeds often housed in the now-obsolete card catalog drawers.
  — Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2022
• Today, researchers can skip the experience of rummaging through card catalogs, or wearing white gloves while staring at delicate 35mm film.
  — Andrea Weiss, The Atlantic, 30 June 2019
• Lemmons taught students how to navigate 10-pound encyclopedias and card catalogs.
  — Koby Levin, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2020
• Remnants of its card catalog still exist today at theMundaneum museum in Mons, Belgium.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2016
• Using Otlet's Universal Decimal Classification, the two men and their staff created an index card catalog with bibliographies on every card.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2016
• The card catalog was a revolutionary tool for organizing information.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 19 May 2017

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024