card catalogue
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They sighed as if I had suggested they spend the day memorizing the library’s card catalogue system.
From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2021
They’ll create an oral history of the card catalogue.
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
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
Mrs. Kenyon handed us a slip of paper with the names of three books to look up in the card catalogue.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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