Glut : mastering information through the ages / Alex Wright.
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TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2007.Description: viii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0309102383
- Information organization -- History
- Information storage and retrieval systems -- History
- Information society -- History
- Organizacion de la Información -- Historia
- Sistema de recuperación -- Historia de almacenamiento de la información
- Sociedad de la Información
- Primera Jornada de Catalogacion
- Classificaties
- 020.9
- Z 666.5 W947g 2007
- 06.72
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Biblioteca Juan Bosch | Biblioteca Juan Bosch | Humanidades | Humanidades (4to. Piso) | Z 666.5 W947g 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00000063573 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269) and index.
Introduction -- 1. Networks and hierarchies -- 2. Family trees and the tree of life -- 3. The ice age information explosion -- 4. The age of alphabets -- 5. Illuminating the dark age -- 6. A steam engine of the mind -- 7. The astral power station -- 8. The encyclopedic revolution -- 9. The moose that roared -- 10. The industrial library -- 11. The Web that wasn't -- 12. Memories of the future -- Appendixes -- A. John Wilkins's universal categories -- B. Thomas Jefferson's 1783 catalog of books -- C. The Dewey decimal system -- D. S.R. Ranganathan's colon classification -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
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