To those interested in the query about the origins of card files and
their dimensions, I pass on a note from Boyd Rayward containing a couple
of corrections:
" ... Library Bureau was set up in 1881 not 1876 according to
Wiegand's biog of Dewey - that work is absolutely first rate. The date
makes no difference to the point being made of course, but ....The
other point in this reply is an important one. The Europeans used the
metric measurement not the Anglo-Saxon one but for all practical
purposes the two were considered to be pretty much interchangeable. LC
cards, for example, were filed in the catalogues in the International
Office of Bibliography in Brussels along with those derived from
European sources."
Again, thanks to all who responded, and I'll let this subject go now.
Geoffrey
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