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Cuneiform to Computer
William A. Katz
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Description for Cuneiform to Computer
Hardback. Provides a brief history of how reference works developed, but concentrates on how they reflect attitudes of their particular period of publication. Each chapter focuses on a basic reference form and highlights the major titles in its evolution. Series: History of the Book. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Cuneiform to Computer provides a brief history of how reference works developed, but concentrates on how they reflect attitudes of their particular period of publication. Each chapter focuses on a basic reference form and highlights the major titles in its evolution. Stress is on the inter-relationship of reference sources with social change and development.
Cuneiform to Computer provides a brief history of how reference works developed, but concentrates on how they reflect attitudes of their particular period of publication. Each chapter focuses on a basic reference form and highlights the major titles in its evolution. Stress is on the inter-relationship of reference sources with social change and development.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Series
History of the Book
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810832909
SKU
V9780810832909
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Ref
99-15
About William A. Katz
William A. Katz is Professor at the School of Information Science and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany. He is editor of The Reference Librarian and The Acquisitions Librarian. He is also editor of Magazines for Libraries and has compiled a second edition of The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies, as well as the seventh edition of his Introduction to Reference Work.
Reviews for Cuneiform to Computer
Katz delves deeply into reference history...every page is filled with facts that you can drop casually at the next cocktail party or budget hearing...
Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie
Katz's way with words is apparent throughout...an illuminating and readable book.
CHOICE
...a delight...this book should be read by all aspiring reference librarians...a welcome addition to library literature and the history of the book.
Lisca
The particular strength of this informative work is that it assembles material from diverse sources into a well-integrated study of the entire spectrum of reference materials. A thoroughly readable and authoritative history enriched by Katz's eclectic selections of comments, reflections and criticism from compilers and readers of reference works.
AB Bookman's Weekly
I know of no such book as this: a history of reference sources in general...a dip into just one page and I was hooked. What more heady read for a reference librarian than a book about the origin of the books of their trade, and how they came to be, and why...now we have a history devoted to "our" books, our inheritance...with some 400 pages of text, a 27-page index, and 956 bibliographical and elaborative notes, Katz has done us a tremendous service...the depth of knowledge is impressive...anyone doing historical and literary research or interested in our intellectual history would do well to use this.
Bob Duckett
s
...fascinating survey of reference titles...
American Libraries
Katz's book is an impressive brief history, and is also a pleasure to read...
The Library Association Record
Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie
Katz's way with words is apparent throughout...an illuminating and readable book.
CHOICE
...a delight...this book should be read by all aspiring reference librarians...a welcome addition to library literature and the history of the book.
Lisca
The particular strength of this informative work is that it assembles material from diverse sources into a well-integrated study of the entire spectrum of reference materials. A thoroughly readable and authoritative history enriched by Katz's eclectic selections of comments, reflections and criticism from compilers and readers of reference works.
AB Bookman's Weekly
I know of no such book as this: a history of reference sources in general...a dip into just one page and I was hooked. What more heady read for a reference librarian than a book about the origin of the books of their trade, and how they came to be, and why...now we have a history devoted to "our" books, our inheritance...with some 400 pages of text, a 27-page index, and 956 bibliographical and elaborative notes, Katz has done us a tremendous service...the depth of knowledge is impressive...anyone doing historical and literary research or interested in our intellectual history would do well to use this.
Bob Duckett
s
...fascinating survey of reference titles...
American Libraries
Katz's book is an impressive brief history, and is also a pleasure to read...
The Library Association Record