REMEMBER THE CARD CATALOG: Celebrating LAPL’s 100th Anniversary

Souvenir catalog card with anniversary stamp of the Central Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library

Do you remember thumbing through the library card catalog, looking for a book to read or use for a school report or, in my case, looking for information as I researched one of the nonfiction books I was writing? Each drawer of the wooden cabinet was filled with index cards, arranged in alphabetical order and subdivided into sections by topic. Each...