card catalogues
Drawer-based book listings
Card catalogues are the drawers of index cards once found in libraries, each card representing a book and filed alphabetically by title, author, or subject.
Before digital databases, researchers thumbed through these wooden cabinets to locate materials: She spent an hour at the card catalogue tracking down sources.
Now largely obsolete, replaced by computerized systems.
- drawersSliding furniture compartments
- alphabetical orderArrangement by first letters
- referencesSources cited for verification
- Dewey Decimal SystemLibrary cataloging by numbers
- librariesPublic book lending institutions
flipping through · lists · call numbers · dividers · index · research tools · bibliographies · filing cabinets · reference lists · filing systems · special collections · metadata · thesauri · shelving systems · classification systems · cross-reference · library science · interlibrary loan
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Internet-hosted searchable information systems
online database · search engines · web search · Google · Google Books
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Documents connected by links
semantic web · keyword search · relational database · networked information
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