Definition of "card catalog" []

• An alphabetical listing, especially of books in a library, made with a separate card for each item. (noun)

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• "The Donnell Branch Library on Fifty-third Street still caters to children—even though the card catalog Claudia and Jamie used has gone the way of the manual typewriter."