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A catalog card is an individual entry in a library catalog containing bibliographic information, including the author's name, title, and location. Eventually the mechanization of the modern era brought the efficiencies of card catalogs. It was around 1780 that the first card catalog appeared in Vienna.
Templates relating to online library catalogs. This category contains templates that create an inline, external link to an entry for a work or edition in an online catalog. The specific entry is determined by a unique identifier passed as a parameter in the template.
[1] [2] It has also been called the Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, among other names. The Library of Congress prepared cards of bibliographic information for their library catalog and would sell duplicate sets of the cards to other libraries for use in their catalogs. This is known as centralized cataloging. Each set of cards was ...
The {{Library resources box}} template provides a sidebar box of external links to resources in the user's preferred library about or by the topic of an article. The links go out to an external program ("FTL", currently hosted at the Online Books Page server at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries) that formulates an appropriate search request for a selected library's catalog or other ...
An index card in a library card catalog.This type of cataloging has mostly been supplanted by computerization. A hand-written American index card A ruled index card. An index card (or record card in British English and system cards in Australian English) consists of card stock (heavy paper) cut to a standard size, used for recording and storing small amounts of discrete data.
At the same time, libraries began to develop applications to automate the purchase, cataloging, and circulation of books and other library materials. These applications, collectively known as an integrated library system (ILS) or library management system, included an online catalog as the public interface to the system's inventory. Most ...
The {{Library resources by}} template provides text containing external links to resources in the user's preferred library (and possibly also in free online book collections) by the topic of an article. More details can be found in the documentation for the related {{Library resources box}} template.
This template generates an external link to a catalog record at the HathiTrust Digital Library. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status ID 1 id Identifier string used in the URL. Example 009014066 String required Title 2 title Title displayed in the link text. Defaults to the article's page name, without disambiguation. Default {{PAGENAME}} Line optional ...