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Author:

Blair, Ann, 1961-

Title:

Too much to know : managing scholarly information before the modern age / Ann M. Blair.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xv, 397 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Reference books, Latin--Europe--History--16th century.
Reference books, Latin--Europe--History--17th century.
Reference books--History.
Communication in learning and scholarship--Europe--History--16th century.
Communication in learning and scholarship--Europe--History--17th century.
Note-taking--History.
Bibliography--Europe--History--16th century.
Bibliography--Europe--History--17th century.
Europe--Intellectual life--16th century.
Europe--Intellectual life--17th century.

Notes:

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

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0300112513 (alk. paper)
9780300112511 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)601347978

LCCN:

2010024663

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)