Displayed on a wall in the corner of Greenfield, Mass., Community College's Nahman-Watson Library are "128 artifacts from the library's card catalogue preserved in a glass case," all of them signed by the authors who wrote the "books to which the cards once led," the Boston Herald reported.
Librarian Hope Schneider has been working on this project for 14 years, first sending cards to local authors and artists for an inscription, and later expanding her effort nationwide to novelists, poets and politicians. Among the respondents was poet Billy Collins, who wrote a poem on three of his cards: "I love card catalogues/ but I only wish/ my cards were more dogeared!"
