Alexia MacClain writes: “Do you remember the excitement of filling out your first library borrower’s card? Or the ‘ca-chunk’ of the date stamp when you checked out a book? What products come to mind when you think of your early library experiences? Obvious materials might be books and shelving but to keep a library functioning other items are needed as well. Supplies for circulating, tracking, and identifying books are often behind the scenes but are just as important. Classified Illustrated Catalog of the Library Department of Library Bureau by Library Bureau, a trade catalog in the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives collections, provides a glimpse of the supplies and equipment that library staff might have used to complete their everyday tasks in 1899.”