REMEMBER THE CARD CATALOG: Celebrating LAPL’s 100th Anniversary
| Souvenir catalog card with anniversary stamp of the Central Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library |
Do you remember thumbing through the library card catalog, looking for a book to read or use for a school report or, in my case, looking for information as I researched one of the nonfiction books I was writing? Each drawer of the wooden cabinet was filled with index cards, arranged in alphabetical order and subdivided into sections by topic. Each card ...