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Cataloging the world : Paul Otlet and the birth of the information age /

"The dream of universal knowledge hardly started with the digital age. From the archives of Sumeria to the Library of Alexandria, humanity has long wrestled with information overload and management of intellectual output. Revived during the Renaissance and picking up pace in the Enlightenment,...

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Main Author: Wright, Alex, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Otlet, Paul, > 1868-1944.
Mundaneum > History.
Bibliographers > Belgium > Biography.
Universal bibliography.
Documentation.
Classification > Books.
Information organization > History.
World Wide Web > History.
Documentation
Book Classification
documentation (activity)
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780199931422
0199931429
9781306545693
1306545692
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The libraries of Babel
  • The dream of the labyrinth
  • Belle Epoque
  • The microphotic book
  • The Index Museum
  • Castles in the air
  • Hope, lost and found
  • Mundaneum
  • The collective brain
  • The radiated library
  • The intergalactic network
  • Entering the stream.

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