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Fun With Card Catalogs

Submitted by Lori Ayre on Sat, 10/01/2005 - 5:00pm

I just learned about the origins of card catalogs. Did you know they came to be because after the French Revolution, the new French government had a bunch of books they needed to sell or burn or put somewhere so they decide to inventory them.

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