The most common types of card catalog include a title catalog, and author catalog. A title catalog is used to search by the title of the book. The author catalog is when you search by the authors last name. All catalogs are in alphabetical order. A dictionary cataloge is when all author, title and subject are all filed in a single catalog. A keyword catalog is also sorted in alphabetical
. order by keywords. Most libaries are now using the computer kind of like a catalog. Instead of searching through catalogs you now just have to type in the information (title, author) in the library search box.