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Too much to know :

(Number (ISBN

0300165390

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9780300112511 (cloth)

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9780300165395 (pbk.)

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Too much to know :

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[Book]

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managing scholarly information before the modern age /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ann M. Blair

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New Haven [Conn.] :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Yale University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2010

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 397 p. :

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ill. ;

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25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-379) and index

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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

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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

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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

Bibliography-- Europe-- History-- 16th century

Bibliography-- Europe-- History-- 17th century

Communication in learning and scholarship-- Europe-- History-- 16th century

Communication in learning and scholarship-- Europe-- History-- 17th century

Note-taking-- History

Reference books-- History

Reference books, Latin-- Europe-- History-- 16th century

Reference books, Latin-- Europe-- History-- 17th century

Europe, Intellectual life, 16th century

Europe, Intellectual life, 17th century

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Blair, Ann,1961-

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