You could look it up : the reference shelf, from ancient Babylon to Wikipedia, Jack Lynch

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You could look it up : the reference shelf, from ancient Babylon to Wikipedia, Jack Lynch

Title remainder

the reference shelf, from ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

Statement of responsibility

Jack Lynch

Instantiates

• You could look it up : the reference shelf, from ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

Publication

• New York, NY, Bloomsbury, 2016

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-442) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Looking it up -- Justice in the earth : laws of the ancient world -- Of making many books : information overload -- In the beginning was the word : the first dictionaries -- A fraction of the total : counting reference books -- The history of nature : science in antiquity -- Easy as ABC : the rise (and fall?) of alphabetical order -- Round earth's imagined corners : mapping the world -- The invention of the codex -- The circle of the sciences : ancient encyclopedias -- The dictionary gets its day in court -- Leechcraft : medieval medicine -- Plagiarism : the crime of literary theft -- New Worlds : cartography in an age of discovery -- Tell me how you organize your books -- Admirable artifice : computers before computers -- To bring people together : societies -- The infirmity of human nature : guides to error -- Ignorance, pure ignorance : of omissions, ambiguities, and plain old blunders -- Guarding the avenues of language : dictionaries in the eighteenth century -- Of ghosts and Mountweazels -- The way of faith : guidelines for believers -- Who's who and what's what : making the cut -- Erotic recreations : sex manuals -- The boys' club -- Collecting knowledge into the smallest areas : the great encyclopedias -- Dictionary or encyclopedia? -- Of redheads and Babus : dictionaries and empire -- A small army : collaborative endeavors -- Killing time : games and sports -- Out of print -- Monuments of erudition : the great national dictionaries -- Counting editions -- Grecian glory, Roman grandeur : Victorian eyes on the ancient world -- Lost projects : what might have been -- Words telling their own stories : the historical dictionaries -- Overlong and overdue -- An Alms-Basket of words : the reference book as salvation -- Reading the dictionary -- Modern material media : staying healthy -- Incomplete and abandoned projects -- The foundation stone : library catalogs -- Index learning -- The good life : the arts and high society -- Some unlikely reference books -- Presumed purity : science in a scientific age -- At no extra cost! the business of reference books -- Full and authoritative information : doctrine for the modern world -- Unpersons : damnatio memoriae -- Nothing special : books for browsers -- The world's information : the encyclopedia dream

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ocn898418972

Dimensions

25 cm

Extent

453 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates

Isbn

9780802777522

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

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• n

Other physical details

illustrations (some color)

Record ID

u925432