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Folks,

I started my very belated efforts to catalogue my records. Eventually I'd like two indices, one for catalogue numbers and one for song titles. I've begun with the catalogue index first. I'm making up on card for every disc like the one shown below. Across the top label name, catalogue number, label descrition, disc size and a small triangle of the labels primary color for most discs. On the card shown it's Victor 19800 / Black Batwing / eccentric run-out / electrically recorded / ten inch disc. Then I've left room for recording date issuing date information and matrix numbers after each song and artist entry.

Is anybody else out there still doing it the old fashioned way like me?

Regards,
John

You bet I am! I've had too many computer problems to do otherwise.
Also, if you know you have an old record you want to access, all you need
is a catalogue of the right vintage from that label, and you can to to it
in a hurry, provided your shelves are set alphabetically by label, then
numerically by catalogue number.
I started my card file in 1961, and won't change over to a format
that can be wiped out by an untimely key stroke or power failure.