While many students spent last summer trying to get as far away from Cornell’s libraries as possible, the Cornell University library system completed a 32-year-long retrospective conversion, or “recon ...

WASHINGTON — It probably arrived in the Washington Community High School library in the 1950s or 1960s, at a time when every library had to have one. But it hadn't been used for its intended purpose ...

WASHINGTON — Henriette D. Avram, whose far-reaching work at the Library of Congress replaced ink-on-paper card catalogs and revolutionized cataloging systems at libraries worldwide, died April 22 of ...

The card catalog was slated to be discarded during a massive library renovation. Small wonder: It hadn’t been updated in two decades, it sat mostly unused, and it would cost hundreds of thousands of ...