Another thing that happens to card catalogues is that they can be
digitised and made searchable, giving an interim form of OPAC pending full
retroconv.
CERL has a list of some digitised card catalogues on its web site :
http://www.cerl.org/CERL/Digitised%20Card%20Catalogues.pdf
as part of a list of on-line rare books resources at
http://www.cerl.org/CERL/cerl.htm, menu item "Other resources".
If you know of other examples of digitised card catalogues of collections
with early printed books (pre-1830), we would be pleased to add them to
this list.
David Shaw
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Dr David J. Shaw
Secretary, Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL)
David@djshaw.co.uk and d.j.shaw@cerl.org
http://www.djshaw.co.uk/
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Michael J. Osborne Books LLC wrote:
I know card catalogs have been dispensed with, or consigned to back rooms
to collect dust, but has anyone ever accepted a card catalog, or a
variation, for example a card catalog created as an index, for donation?
Thank you for your help.
Michael Osborne
Michael J. Osborne Books LLC
Edwin C. Schroeder
Head of Technical Services
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
121 Wall St.
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203) 432-7485
Fax: (203) 432-4047
edwin.schroeder@yale.edu