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Melanie Walsh
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TIL MARC records—the metadata backbone of libraries— were created in the 1960s by Henriette Avram, a computer programmer who worked at the NSA before joining the Library of Congress.
Carla Hayden called this her favorite image in _The Card Catalog_ 😢: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/librarian-congress-weighs-why-card-catalogs-matter-180963371/
2025-05-12T01:32:44.811Z