Inspired Writing - the card catalog part two

Literary review - Amazon search results for a library card catalog in books:

1. Simplified Library School Rules; Card Catalog, Accession, Book Numbers, Shelf List, Capitals by Melvil Dewey. Observation: The author seems to be quite the Dewey Decimal nerd based on his other publications listed on Amazon. He is the creator of the Dewey Decimal system which is the system used in libraries to catalog and retrieve books.

2. Access Points to the Law Library Card Catalog Interpretation by Elzabeth Matthews

3. The card catalogs of the Library of Congress: A brief description by Barbara Marietta Westby

Observation: These books in general seem to be pretty obscure, further proving that my subject is a dying breed.

Five interesting facts about the Card Catalog:

1. During the French Revolution playing cards were used instead of index cards in the card catalog.
    http://liswiki.org/wiki/History_of_the_card_catalog

2. Library hand is a code of rules for how to create the perfect, uniform card for the card catalog devised by Melvil Dewey and Thomas Edison.
    http://liswiki.org/wiki/History_of_the_card_catalog

3. Danbury Connecticut's public library held a mock funeral for their retired card catalog.
     http://liswiki.org/wiki/History_of_the_card_catalog

4. In 1982, the editors of American Libraries magazine asked its readers to come up with creative uses for decommissioned card catalogs.
     http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/cardcatalog.htm

5. Melvil Dewey established the Library Bureau which was "one of the most prolific makers of card catalog cabinets."
     http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/cardcatalog.htm