Sentence examples for catalogue cards from inspiring English sources

The actual books constituted the data, the catalogue cards the metadata.

In January of 1901, the Library of Congress began printing its catalogue cards in quantity and selling them in sets to any library that wanted them.

The idea survived into the 20th century in the shape of the little catalogue cards librarians used to note down a book's title, author, subject and so on before the records were moved onto computers.

On the catalogue card for Phillips's first recording session, the box marked "Accomp".

By H. Schecter and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, September 25 , 1948P. 23 A New England librarian wrote to the Library of Congress, which supplies standard form of catalogue card to libraries all over the country, ordering a packet of cards and enclosing a payment check for one dollar.

After this onslaught, Baker retreated into some of the most idiosyncratic subject matter of his career, including an elegy on the passing of the library catalogue card called Discards and a mind-bogglingly arcane 150-page essay, reprinted in his 1996 collection The Size of Thoughts, about the word "lumber".

Kurtachi, Bougainville, Northern Solomons province of Papua New Guinea Beatrice Blackwood, 1930 Cultural group: Kurtachi village Black, brittle Local name: tagon Function: Narcotic Catalogue card: "Tagon.

Sherlock River, (NW) Western Australia Emile Clement, by 1924 Cultural group: Ngarluma (Gnalluma) Black, hard Function: Medicinal Catalogue card: "Medicine" shell (Cypraia serpentis) filled with gum.

Sherlock River, (NW) Western Australia Emile Clement, by 1924 Cultural group: Ngarluma Yellowish black, glassy and brittle Function: Medicinal Catalogue card: "Medicine" shell (Cypraia incipiens) filled with gum.

Wanigera, in Collingwood Bay, Oro Province, British New Guinea W.H. Chignell, by 1908 Cultural group: Ubir Yellowy amber, glassy and brittle Local name: fiufiu Function: Adhesive Catalogue card: "fiufiu, resin used as an adhesive".

Accession number: 1924.63.12 PRM27 4 lumps of bees wax Wanigera (Wanigela), in Collingwood Bay, Oro Province, British New Guinea W.H. Chignell, by 1908 Cultural group: Ubir Yellowish brown, soft and waxy Function: Adhesive Local name: kemeri Catalogue card: "Wax, Kemeri, from wild bees' nests, for fixing ornamental seeds, beads, etc".