Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 397 pages)
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illustrations, facsimiles
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300112513
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0300165390
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0300168497
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9780300112511
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9780300165395
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9780300168495
Content:
The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of 'information overload', yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. The author examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, then focuses particular attention on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. She explores in detail the sophisticated and sometimes idiosyncratic techniques that scholars and readers developed in an era of new technology and exploding information
Content:
Information management in comparative perspective -- Note-taking as information management -- Reference genres and their finding devices -- Compilers, their motivations and methods -- The impact of early printed reference books
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-379) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300112511
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300112513
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe
Language:
English
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