Card Catalog is built at the intersection of AI fluency and information literacy, explored through a librarian lens. Librarians have spent centuries developing the tools to evaluate sources, navigate information overload, and know what to trust — and those skills have never mattered more than they do right now.
But this isn’t just about AI. It’s about a fundamental belief that access to good information is a form of power, and that power should belong to everyone — not just people with technical backgrounds or institutional resources. Librarians have always known this. The reference desk wasn’t just a place to find books; it was a place where anyone could walk in and get the same quality of help, regardless of what they knew or didn’t know coming through the door. That ethos is what Card Catalog is built on.
Information should make you feel more capable, not more overwhelmed. It should expand what’s possible for you, not create new anxieties about everything you haven’t read or don’t yet understand. The goal of every essay, briefing, and resource here is to give you the thinking tools to navigate whatever comes next — so that the information you encounter every day works for you, expanding what's possible and clarifying what actually matters.
What Card Catalog offers
Free subscribers get weekly essays of AI literacy, critical thinking, and finding meaning in our digital age. Plus instant access to the 2026 Desktop Calendar & Guide as a welcome gift.
Paid subscribers get full access to the Paid Subscriber Library, your comprehensive toolkit for navigating AI and information with confidence:
→ AI Intelligence Briefing (every other Friday): I read the overwhelming flood of AI news so you don’t have to, then tell you what actually matters and why
→ Librarian Hotline (last Wednesday of each month): You ask questions, I research the answers. Real questions about AI, information, work challenges, whatever you’re trying to figure out.
→ Research Packet (first Wednesday of each quarter): Deep-dive guides with step-by-step instructions for mastering specific skills in information literacy and AI fluency.
→ Framework Library (new additions monthly - coming soon!): Practical checklists, templates, and reference tools you can use immediately. No theory, just application.
→ The Card Catalog Classroom (courses and workshops - coming soon!): Structured learning on information literacy and AI fluency — the same frameworks and thinking from the newsletter, taught in depth and designed to be put to use immediately.
Nice to meet you! 👋
My name is Hana Lee Goldin, but everyone calls me Hana. I have a master’s degree in Library and Information Science, and what it gave me wasn’t just a working knowledge of how information systems operate. It gave me a fascination with how information itself works: how it gets organized, who shapes it, and what happens when people lack the tools to evaluate it.
Information literacy has been at the heart of library science for decades. Long before AI made these questions urgent, librarians were developing the frameworks for navigating information overload, identifying credible sources, and knowing when you actually have enough to move forward. That body of knowledge is what drives everything at Card Catalog.
We are living through one of the most significant shifts in how information works in human history, and most people are navigating it without a map. Card Catalog is my attempt to be that map — to take everything library science knows about finding, evaluating, and trusting information, and make it accessible to anyone who wants to think more clearly in the age of AI.
→ Want to know more about my story? Read it here: And they say you can’t go home again.
Welcome to Card Catalog! Really glad you’re here. 📚
