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History of Cataloging

  • The first card catalog is "invented" in France

    A rumour as to how card catalogs were created, after the french revolution the french people had two things: a lot of new books and a love of playing cards. The legend goes that on the blank side of their playing cards, they would store the information about these books, thus creating the beginnings of a card catalog as we know it
  • International Conference on Cataloguing Principles (Paris)

    Taking place in Paris, this was the first time the international community held a conference to discuss cataloguing codes.

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