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It was the long, tall cabinet that held the card catalogue.

Old-fashioned card catalogues stand to one side of the library.

"They see the Internet as the world's largest library, only someone threw away the card catalogue," he said.

Cards are thus equivalent to entries for books in the main card catalogue.

"I use the card catalogue and touch the books, but it seems to me overall that the library is being taken away from the people."

And she definitely would like to toss the old card catalogue.

With minimal encouragement, she will talk about her card catalogue on race horses.

"You don't even know how to read a card catalogue."

I looked in vain for the simple card catalogues of my youth.

Did you know it doesn't even have a card catalogue?