If you think it is hard to explain to nonlibrary users what a librarian does, try explaining the job of a cataloger. Not long ago (when I was still in library school), if someone had asked me what ...

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Seymour Lubetzky, who helped librarians channel the rising tide of information with his ingenious transformation of cataloging, died April 5 in Los Angeles. He was 104. Mr. Lubetzky worked for years ...

Imagine you wanted to find books or journal articles on a particular subject. Or find manuscripts by a particular author. Or locate serials, music or maps. You would use a library catalog that ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Are you old enough to remember going into a library and first heading to the card catalogue? You’d pull out one of the long, ...

Men working at linotype machines in the Card Division Printing Office of the Library of Congress (c. 1900-1920), from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards and Literary Treasures by the Library of Congress, ...