Imagine you wanted to find books or journal articles on a particular subject. Or find manuscripts by a particular author. Or locate serials, music or maps. You would use a library catalog that ...

A woman using the card catalog at the main reading room of the Library of Congress, circa 1940. Photo: Library of Congress OCLC printed its last library catalog cards on October 1, 2015, ending an era ...

For more than a century, the Dewey Decimal Classification system has dictated the way libraries organize their collections. And the way they organize and sort information says a lot about what kind of ...

Amanda Ros is an active member of the American Library Association. For many years, the Library of Congress categorized many of its books under a controversial subject heading: “Illegal aliens.” But ...

Melissa Levine has received funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Imagine you wanted to find books or journal articles on a particular subject. Or find manuscripts by a ...