Frederick G. Kilgour: The Evolution of the Book (1998)
25 October 2014, dusan
Filed under book | Tags: · book, codex, e-book, history of technology, hypertext, library, networks, paper, print, publishing, technology, writing
A concise book by the professor in library and information science who, in the late 1960s, helped to establish the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), a worldwide consortium of library databases.
Writing from the perspective of history of technology, Kilgour investigates the book’s three discrete forms–the clay tablet, papyrus roll, and codex–before turning to the electronic book.
Publisher Oxford University Press, New York, 1998
ISBN 0195118596, 9780195118599
180 pages
Review (Robert J. Brugger, Technology and Culture, 2001)
Review (Bruce Whiteman, Huntington Library Quarterly, 1998)
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