Peter Devereaux and Carla Diane Hayden. The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures. | Zendy

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Peter Devereaux and Carla Diane Hayden. <em>The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures</em>.

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Kathy Marquis

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

rbm a journal of rare books manuscripts and cultural heritage

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2150-668X

pISSN - 1529-6407

DOI - 10.5860/rbm.19.1.71

Subject(s) - handwriting , subject (documents) , art , art history , library science , computer science , artificial intelligence

In an early archives job, I typed the name and subject entries at the top of card sets we received from the Library of Congress. It was exacting work and I really enjoyed it, including the filing. At a venerable manuscript repository, the cards ranged from the printed ones I placed on top of the rods (to be double-checked before they slipped into their forever homes) and those written in a spidery handwriting that could easily have been 100 years old. It made me feel part of a long tradition of information mavens.

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