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- Title
Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan (review).
- Authors
Nelson, Katy
- Abstract
If we look up "comic indexes", for instance, we find "comic indexes [keep going] see funny indexes" / "funny indexes [getting closer] see humour" / "humour [nearly there] see index wit." Although Duncan's tale centers on the emergence of the index in the West, the index was by no means a European invention, nor was the polemical index a uniquely European phenomenon. Ultimately, though, Duncan also recounts a broader history of information technology by connecting the index first to the late nineteenth-century dream of a "universal index" across libraries and fields and then to the twentieth-century rise of computing.
- Subjects
DIGITAL technology; MEDIEVAL manuscripts; TREASON; LIBRARY catalogs; INFORMATION technology; INDEXES
- Publication
Information & Culture, 2023, Vol 58, Issue 1, p123
- ISSN
2164-8034
- Publication type
Article