How to Use card catalog in a Sentence

card catalog

noun
  • So many that there are two yard-long card catalog drawers full of card entries of old textbooks.
    — David Frese, kansascity, 29 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • The bar top sits on vintage card catalog cabinets.
    — John Meyer, Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Upon check-in, the host will escort the guests behind a curtain, take their phones and lock them in a vintage card catalog cabinet.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Without detailed metadata, a video archive is like a library without a card catalog.
    — Dave Friend, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • 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 piece utilizes the library’s century-old card catalog, which had been supplanted by an online catalog system.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 14 July 2024
  • Vintage stuff covers my century-old farmhouse, from the card catalog table in the living room to the tennis racquets on the wall of the mudroom to the potato chip tin in the kitchen.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 July 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
  • 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
  • Lemmons taught students how to navigate 10-pound encyclopedias and card catalogs.
    — Koby Levin, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Remnants of its card catalog still exist today at theMundaneum museum in Mons, Belgium.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2016
  • The card catalog was a revolutionary tool for organizing information.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 19 May 2017
  • Lauder pointed to the Clinique card catalog as an example, where sales associates would note product recommendations and purchases as well as personal details about the shopper.
    — Fairchild Studio, WWD, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The Sauder Barrister Lane Bookcase draws inspiration from card catalogs of yesteryear.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Visitors can visit each branch's information or reference desk to receive a genuine card catalog that once helped people navigate the LA Central Library.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • To launch it, said Rikki Longino, the City Library’s garden coordinator, the library’s garden staff performed a little skit in the auditorium using the old-fashioned wooden card catalog that is now used to stock seeds.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Under cover of awkward teen dancing, the pair slipped into the library, riffled through the card catalog, and discovered, in addition to Soul on Ice, eight other volumes in PONY-U perdition.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • Dubbed the Card Catalog Stamp Collection, this program allows visitors to visit the reference or information desk at any library to receive a genuine card catalog that once helped people navigate the Central Library's collection.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026

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