The unused drawers in Doheny Library now have locks on them and can be used by university donors to leave gifts for their families — just the right shape for wine bottles, apparently. Ink and Vellum: ...

"Being able to catalog or contain and make sense of all of this information is what the card catalog represents." Union catalogers at work at the Library of Congress in 1927.

Clever solutions require thinking outside the box, which is surely how someone landed on using a card catalog for wine storage. It’s quirky, original and functional, and you can easily ...

Clever solutions require thinking outside the box, which is surely how someone landed on using a card catalog for wine storage. It’s quirky, original and functional, and you can easily ...

“I’ve grown up with the card catalog,” said Howard Goldberg, 66, a former aircraft engineer with Hamilton-Standard. “A lot of older people are afraid of computers, they might not use them.

More than 350 library systems worldwide are using iBistro, Gates said. For some, he said, iBistro has increased catalog usage 25% to 30%.

To the right of the library’s front door, a blocky 72-drawer oak card catalog that holds the secrets to the library’s more than 75,000 volumes still has pride of place.

If you do a Google search for "card catalog" it will likely return Pinterest-worthy images of antique furniture for sale — boxy, wooden cabinets with tiny drawers, great for storing knick-knacks, ...

Today, people use the antique wooden cabinets to store their knick-knacks. But these card catalogs once held the keys to a world of information. A new Library of Congress book explores their history.

"Being able to catalog or contain and make sense of all of this information is what the card catalog represents." Union catalogers at work at the Library of Congress in 1927.