Before the internet made book reviews widely accessible, where would curious minds go to find information about a new novel's subject matter or a plot? If you lived in the Los Angeles area, you could ...

Like every graduate student, I once holed up in the library cramming for my doctoral oral exams. This ritual hazing starts with a long reading list. Come exam day, the scholar must prove mastery of a ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Index cards are mostly obsolete nowadays. We use them to create flash cards, write ...

Men working at linotype machines in the Card Division Printing Office of the Library of Congress (c. 1900-1920), from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards and Literary Treasures by the Library of Congress, ...

As National Library Week begins — it runs from April 9–15 this year — the Library of Congress looks back at the ancestor of the card catalog, in this excerpt from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and ...

OneSearch is the Brandeis Library's main catalog and database search tool. Learn more about OneSearch on the OneSearch FAQ page. The library has short-term loaner laptops and equipment available for ...