Library Card Catalog 128

on November 29, 2011

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5-foot high,128-drawer pre-computer manual storage system for finding books and other materials at a library. Has 4 support shelves allowing drawers to be removed and rested on the support shelves and references copied down. Has rod screw in bottom of each drawer. Would contain hundreds of cards per drawer, each representing one item. A pre-1980 library will use these. Holds about 60,000 records. The main downtown branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, for example, which had about 2 1/2 million items before the two fires, would have had to have had about 50 of these in the main search room, for that one branch alone. There is a larger version without support shelves, having 136 drawers (about 65,000 records) and a smaller version also without support shelves that has 48 drawers, holding about 20,000 records.

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