Wright, Alex,  1966- <br/><br/>
Glut :  mastering information through the ages / 
Alex Wright. 
 - Washington, D.C. :  Joseph Henry Press,  c2007. 
 - viii, 286 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269) and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction --  Networks and hierarchies --  Family trees and the tree of life --  The ice age information explosion --  The age of alphabets --  Illuminating the dark age --  A steam engine of the mind --  The astral power station --  The encyclopedic revolution --  The moose that roared --  The industrial library --  The Web that wasn't --  Memories of the future --  Appendixes --  John Wilkins's universal categories --  Thomas Jefferson's 1783 catalog of books --  The Dewey decimal system --  S.R. Ranganathan's colon classification --  Acknowledgments --  Notes --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  A.  B.  C.  D. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0309102383 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007006290 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Information organization--History.<br/>Information storage and retrieval systems--History.<br/>Information society--History.<br/>Organizacion de la Información--Historia<br/>Sistema de recuperación--Historia de almacenamiento de la información<br/>Sociedad de la Información<br/>Primera Jornada de Catalogacion<br/>Classificaties.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Z 666.5  / W947g 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>020.9