03655nam 2200745 a 450 991077923730332120230725060525.00-300-16849-710.12987/9780300168495(CKB)2550000000104987(StDuBDS)AH24393384(SSID)ssj0000721939(PQKBManifestationID)11416768(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721939(PQKBWorkID)10693270(PQKB)11665922(MiAaPQ)EBC3420934(DE-B1597)485640(OCoLC)961560143(DE-B1597)9780300168495(Au-PeEL)EBL3420934(CaPaEBR)ebr10579333(OCoLC)923599495(EXLCZ)99255000000010498720100625d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrToo much to know[electronic resource] managing scholarly information before the modern age /Ann M. BlairNew Haven [Conn.] Yale University Pressc20101 online resource (416 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-11251-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-379) and index.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.The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of "information overload," yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann M. Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. Blair examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, then focuses particular attention on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. She explores in detail the sophisticated and sometimes idiosyncratic techniques that scholars and readers developed in an era of new technology and exploding information.Reference books, LatinEuropeHistory16th centuryReference books, LatinEuropeHistory17th centuryReference booksHistoryCommunication in learning and scholarshipEuropeHistory16th centuryCommunication in learning and scholarshipEuropeHistory17th centuryNote-takingHistoryBibliographyEuropeHistory16th centuryBibliographyEuropeHistory17th centuryEuropeIntellectual life16th centuryEuropeIntellectual life17th centuryReference books, LatinHistoryReference books, LatinHistoryReference booksHistory.Communication in learning and scholarshipHistoryCommunication in learning and scholarshipHistoryNote-takingHistory.BibliographyHistoryBibliographyHistory039.71094Blair Ann1961-259226MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779237303321Too much to know257886UNINA