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# Booths with lifting mechanisms for card catalogues in the Prague archive
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- Published: 2022-02-20T10:31:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:54:46.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Books, Observations

The Prague Archive was fitted out with very convenient booths with lifting mechanisms for using vertically oriented card cabinets. Today all this is, of course, obsolete: card catalogues are being replaced everywhere by electronic ones, which is, in my view, a serious mistake, one we shall yet have cause to weep over in the future