Card catalogue / library system

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The card catalogue was the traditional system used in libraries to organize and locate books by author, subject, and title before digital systems.

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Mentioned once in Author, Author.

Author, Author

Season 1 · Episode 22 · S01E22

“I've dreamed of one thing: the day I could go into a library and go to the card catalogue and see my name under "mental illness"”
— Niles

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