Card catalog trays full of 5,000 index cards in salmon, blue, green, buff, and ivory.
Acquired Brodart Colored Blank Punched Catalog Cards (shopbrodart.com)
Medium-weight colored blank punched catalog cards
blue, green, buff, ivory, white, salmon
Stocking stuffers anyone? Santa brought 6,000 index cards down the proverbial chimney today. Should have enough now to index all the books in the house? 

A library card catalog with a red Christmas stocking hanging on it with a box full of index cards next to it.

Four drawers of a library card catalog full of index cards in blue, green, buff, and ivory.

Five card catalog drawers lined up and full of ivory, buff, green, blue, and salmon index cards

A library card catalog covered in stacks of Brodart index cards.

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Chris Aldrich

I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

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  1. I catalog lots of things besides books… most libraries only used one color for most of their book cataloging, iirc

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