0 a box for storing cards in a particular order
1 a box for storing cards with information on them in alphabetical order:
A writer may purchase a manuscript record book or may prepare his own book or card index.
In fact, in most modern studios, an elaborate card index system of listing locations, sometimes situated miles from the studio, is maintained.
One of these cards indexes contains the names and titles of all the articles published in the society's annual reports and is indexed also with the names of the writers, the index being prepared in this double manner.
The society is maintaining its card indexes and adding year by year to the amount of material which they represent.
The use of the catalogue and card index should be carefully explained and illustrated.
First, there is the numerical card index of 50 million cards giving names into numbers and the opposite giving numbers into names.
Operators push cable plugs into holes, leaf through a card index and scribble notes on a paper pad.
Harrisson had little interest in interacting with his fellow schoolboys, he nevertheless took an intense interest them, keeping a card index on every boy.
