The card catalog for the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library was once the only way to find needed books. Over four million cards cataloged each book’s location and from where it was donated.

For the past six years, donations to the Pomona Public Library Foundation have kept the Homework Club and summer excursions going, as well as providing new materials. To recognize those donors, the ...

WASHINGTON — Henriette D. Avram, whose far-reaching work at the Library of Congress replaced ink-on-paper card catalogs and revolutionized cataloging systems at libraries worldwide, died April 22 of ...

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September is Library Card Sign-up Month, a time when libraries nationwide remind parents, caregivers, students and communities at large that signing up for a library card is the first step on the path ...