NOUN
- an alphabetical listing of items (e.g., books in a library) with a separate card for each item
- a library catalog in which each publication is described on a separate file card
How To Use card catalog In A Sentence
- The evolution from card catalog to MARC is a great leap in the development of the library catalog system.
- I found the length of my arm of a card catalogue on the topic ‘nithe neamhbheo agus neacha nach bhfuil ann’ (‘unalive beings and things that don't exist ’).
- Shall we go to the card catalog or directly to the stack room?
- Most of the suggested defects of the card catalogue, as concerns the readers, can be obviated by making a two-fold catalogue, the type-written titles being manifolded, and one set arranged in card-drawers for the use of the library staff, while another is mounted on large sheets in bound volumes for use of the public. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
- Library card catalogs are a well-established type of metadata, and they have served as collection management and resource discovery tools for decades.
- User access to our bibliographic data is currently by means of a card catalogue, with some analytical indexes.
- A card catalog is an index of books in a library.
- I found some books in the card catalog I'd like to borrow.
- The card catalog is the index to the books.
- A survey has been designed and carried out to assess the extent of library materials within the group that remain either on card catalogue or indeed completely uncatalogued.