A review by in2reading
The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures (Gifts for Book Lovers, Gifts for Librarians, Book Club Gift) by Peter Devereaux, Library of Congress, Carla Hayden

4.0

I really enjoyed this book! Admittedly I am a librarian who started her career when card catalogs were still intact. And as a college student I worked in a library where part of my job involved typing and filing catalog cards. But the history of the card catalog is the story of one of how information about books was organized for 100 years, and this book does a good job of telling the story. It includes many, many pages of illustrations of classic books paired with their Library of Congress catalog cards. The handwritten ones of the early 1900s are especially compelling. How fortunate we are to live in a time when information is so readily accessible to so many people, through the card catalog in the past and now expanded through digital access.