The traditional library catalogue in which entries for authors, titles, and subjects are made on cards stored in drawers. Call number information is also given to aid patrons in finding materials. At Vanderbilt, only the Music Library maintains an active card catalog in addition to the online catalog.
The file of over six million cards on the first floor of Firestone, representing items cataloged for any location in the Princeton University Library system through the end of 1980. Most items included are books and serials, but the Card Catalog also contains records for some, though by no means all, government documents, microforms, and other types of material. In general, each item is represented by several cards to provide approaches by author, title, and subject. Cards are filed in a single alphabet, following complex filing rules. The previous term used for the Card Catalog was "Public Catalog 1" or "PC1". This is now in computerized image form, and called the "Electronic Card Catalog."
A card file which may be arranged in author, title, and subject sections. Materials owned by the library are listed alphabetically. Colorado State University has one card catalog left, a SHELFLIST for GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.
Traditionally, card catalogs are pieces of furniture containing drawers filled with cards that provide information about books in the collection. The card catalog in the BMCC Library has been replaced by an online electronic catalog (CUNY+) since 1989.
a library catalog in which each publication is described on a separate file card
A catalog in which entries are arranged systematically on cards.
a descriptive record of library holdings printed on cards and arranged in cabinets in a definite order. Amberton no longer uses a card catalog. (See OPAC)
A card file, arranged by author, title, and subject, listing all items owned by a library. The Main Card Catalog, located on the Second Floor of the Main Library Building, contains cards for every item in the Univeristy Library System purchased between 1868 and 1975. Most departmental libraries have a card catalog for its own collection.
a cabinet with file drawers containing cards that list the books and other materials in a library collection. Most libraries have replaced card catalogs with online catalogs (OPAC's).
A collection of cards, housed in sets of small drawers, which represent the items found in a library. 'Author,' 'title,' and 'subject' cards represent each item in the library. Since the advent of computers this information is usually stored in electronic 'records.' These electronic databases replicate and expand on the card catalog system. (Unit 4 A Primer on Databases and Catalogs)
In a general library, the patrons' index of the library's collections. In a media center, a card index of the media center's equipment and holdings.
An index to a library’s collection.
catalog in which entries on separate cards are arranged in order, listing library materials by author, title, and subject.
Case of drawers which contain cards describing the holdings of a library. Library patrons consult the card catalog to determine if the library owns the material wanted, and if so, the location of those materials (from the call number on the card). Cf. online catalog.
A catalog in which each entry is made on a separate card. Entries are usually made for author, subject, and title, and the cards are filed in alphabetical order.
A file of records that tells you what materials the library owns and where the materials are stored.
the master index for library use which contains cards for each item by title, author, and subject. Cards are filed alphabetically by the first word on the card. See OPAC (Online Patron Access Catalog).
an alphabetical listing of materials in a library, made with a separate card for each item.
The card catalog, or "catalog of characteristics," in cryptography, was a system designed, and first completed about 1935, by Polish Cipher Bureau mathematician-cryptologist Marian Rejewski to facilitate decrypting German Enigma messages. The card catalog was produced over more than a year's time, using the cyclometer invented by Rejewski about 1934.