By Library of Congress, Carla Hayden

The Library of Congress brings booklovers an enriching tribute to the facility of the written notice and to the background of our such a lot loved books. that includes greater than two hundred full-color photographs of unique catalog playing cards, first variation booklet covers, and pictures from the library's fantastic documents, this assortment is a visible party of the hardly visible treasures in a single of the world's most famed libraries and the bright catalog method that has saved it geared up for centuries. full of attractive evidence on literary classics—from Ulysses to The Cat within the Hat to Shakespeare's First Folio to The Catcher within the Rye—this package deal is an ode to the iconic magic and value of books.

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As Congress settled into its new home in the Capitol building that winter, clerks unpacked the eleven trunks and set up the Library. The joint committee had the handwritten invoice and cover letter from Cadell and Davies printed into an eight-page pamphlet that included each book title along with the sale price. This booklist constitutes the first printed catalog of the Library of Congress. It may seem peculiar that book prices were listed, but because the Library represented such a significant investment for the newly established country, Congressmen could only check books out by signing a note promising to return them—or pay for them in full.

During the Qin dynasty, the first emperor of a unified China reportedly ordered the burning of ancient texts, including the Confucian classics along with other philosophical and historical works, in an attempt to suppress nonconforming ideas. A few select copies, however, were gathered and preserved in the imperial library. After the collapse of the Qin dynasty, Emperor Ch’eng Ti of the succeeding Han dynasty directed a historian and government official, Liu Xiang, to assemble a catalog of what remained.

When Abbot introduced his catalog in the early 1860s, the “paper slip,” or card catalog, was being used in Europe and a few American libraries, but the bound catalog was still prevalent. What made Abbot’s card catalog special was that it was designed to be used by the patron—most other catalogs at the time were only handled by library staff. Anyone who has ever opened a drawer and fingered through the cards within to locate a book can appreciate this indelible aspect of the card catalog. The flexibility of adding or deleting cards to accurately and immediately reflect a library’s holdings was groundbreaking when compared to the intractable bound catalog the card catalog was destined to supplant.

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