A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order
Record details
- ISBN: 9781541601161
- ISBN: 1541601165
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Physical Description:
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xxviii, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm - Edition: First US edition.
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in 2020 by Picador in the United Kingdom"--Title page verso |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-299) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A is for antiquity: from the beginning to the classical world -- B is for the Benedictines: the monasteries and the Early Middle Ages -- C is for categories: authorities and organization, to the twelfth century -- D is for distinctiones: the High Middle Ages and the search tool -- E is for expansion: the reference work in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- F is for firsts: from the birth of printing to library catalogs in the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries -- G is for government: bureaucracy and the office, from the sixteenth century to the French Revolution -- H is for history: libraries, research, and extracting in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- I is for index cards: from copy clerks to office supplies in the nineteenth century -- Y is for Y2K: from the phone book to hypertext in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Timeline. |
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Subject: | Alphabetizing History Information organization History |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | Z 695.95 .F53 2022 | 30775305565823 | General Collection | Available | - |