Library Link of the Day tipped me off to the news that OCLC, the technical provider of all things library catalog related, has printed their last card catalog card.
I remember these catalogs (whether just a few drawers in a school library or the mammoth city of catalogs at the Library of Congress when I worked there in the 80s). I don’t miss them as an information tool, but they had a certain human beauty that somehow a computer search input box lacks.
A Few Reasonable Words 