TY - BOOK AU - Wright,Alex TI - Glut: mastering information through the ages SN - 0309102383 AV - Z 666.5 W947g 2007 U1 - 020.9 PY - 2007/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Joseph Henry Press KW - Information organization KW - History KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Information society KW - Organizacion de la Información KW - Historia KW - Sistema de recuperación KW - Historia de almacenamiento de la información KW - Sociedad de la Información KW - Primera Jornada de Catalogacion KW - Classificaties KW - gtt N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006290.html ER -