Information Resources for Information Professionals

History of the Book, Computer, Library, and Television

Compiled by:
Joe Ryan

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Table of Contents

  • Introductions
  • History of Barcodes
  • History of the Book
  • History of Computing and Telecommunications
  • History of Copying
  • History of Libraries
  • History of Television

    Introductions

    Naisbitt, John. (1982). From an industrial society to an information society. (pp. 1-33). In Megatrends: Ten new directions transforming our lives. NY: Warner Books.

    Roszak, Theodore. (1994). Of ideas and data. (Ch. 5, pp. 87-107). The cult of information. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

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    Advertising

    John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History and Duke University, Digital Scriptorium. Emergence of advertising in America: 1850-1920.

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    History of Barcodes

    Hagey, Warren. The history of bar codes.

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    History of the Book

    Place to start:

    Jones Telecommunications and MultiMedia Encylopedia Encyclopedia. History of Printing article.

    In more detail:

    American Museum of Papermaking.

    Aspects of the Victorian book.

    BBC. Animated history of books.

    Bierkerts, Sven. (1995). The Gutenberg elegies: The fate of reading in an electronic age. Boston: Faber and Faber.

    Carter, T.F. (1925). The invention of printing in China and its spread westward. Ronald Press.

    Clanchy, M. T. (1979). From memory to written record: England, 1066-1307. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

    Clanchy, M. T. (1982, Summer). Looking back from the invention of printing. Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 39 (3), 168-183.

    Clement, Richard. (1996). The book in America: With images from the Library of Congress. Golden, CO: Fulcrum.

    Cornell University Libraries. Paper, leather, clay, and stone: The written word materialized.

    Gans, Paul M. Paper in Medieval technology pages.

    Hatch, Tyrrel. What's type?

    International Dunhuang Project. History of Chinese bookbinding.

    Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. (1979). The printing press as agent of change. NY: Geoffrey
    Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. (1983). The printing revolution in early modern Europe. NY: Cambridge University Press.

    Feather, John. (1988). A history of British publishing. London: Croom Helm.

    Goody,Jack. (1986). The logic of writing and the organization of society. London: Cambridge University Press.

    The Graphion Type Museum on the Internet.

    Kaestle, Carl. (1991). Literacy in the United States: Readers and reading since 1880. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

    Illich, Ivan and Sanders, Barry. (1988). The alphabetization of the popular mind. San Francisco: North Point Press.

    Martin, Henri-Jean. (1994). The history and power of writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Makala, Jeffrey.Highlights from the Columbia University Library Science Library Vertical Files, 1832-1994.

    Marshall McLuhan

    Interview with Marshall McLuhan

    Nunberg, Geoffrey. (Ed.). (1996). The Future of the Book. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

    Olmert, Michael. (1992). The Smithsonian Book of Books. NY:Wing Books.

    Oxford Early Books Project

    Pearsall, Derek (ed.). (1989). Book production and publishing in Britain, 1375-1474. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Powell, Walter W. (1985). Getting into print: The decision-making process in scholarly publishing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Roberts, Colin H. and Skeat, T.C. (1987). The birth of the codex. London: Oxford University Press.

    Ross, Kristina. History of communication media technologies

    Society For The History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing

    A Brief History of Scriptoria

    Wiegand, Wayne and Davis, Donald. (Eds.). (1994). Encyclopedia of library history. NY: Greenwood.

    Of Related Interest:

    Thomas, Anabel. (1995). The painters practice in renaissance Tuscany. NY: Cambridge University Press.

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    History of Computing and Telecommunications

    Baughman, Kinney. The History of the Internet.

    Bowen, J onathan. Virtual museum of computing.

    Brock, G. W. The history of the telegraph: The telecommunications industry.

    Commercial Computing Museum

    Charles Babbage Institute

    Computer History Association of California

    Computer Museum History Center.

    Eby, Chuck. Telephone history web site.

    Hauben, Michael and Hauben, Ronda. Netizens: On the history and impact of the net.

    Historical Computer Society

    History of the Internet.

    IEEE. History of Computing Devices in Mathematics.

    IEEE. Annals of the History of Computing.

    Kidder, Tracy. (1981). The soul of a new machine. NY: Avon Books.

    Kidwell, Peggy A. and Ceruzzi, Paul E. (1994). Landmarks in digital computing.Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.

    Leiner, Barry M. Et al. List of Computer-Folklore Related Books

    LivingInternet.com

    Describes the Internet's history, how it works, how to use it (including advanced use), security issues, and related information.

    Lubar, Steven. (1993). Infoculture: The Smithsonian book of information age inventions. NY: Houghton Mifflin.

    Museum of obsolete computers

    Winston, Brian. (1998). Media technology and society a history : From the telegraph to the Internet. NY: Routledge.

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    History of Copying

    Rhodes, Barbara and Streeter, William Wells. (1999). Before photocopying: The art & history of mechanical copying, 1780-1938. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press.

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    History of Libraries

    Buckland, Michael and Bellardo-Hahn, Trudi. (1997, April, September). History of documentation and information science. Part I and II. Journal of American Society for Information Science, 48.

    Cole, John. Y. (1991, April 8). Jefferson's legacy: A brief history of the library. LC Information Bulletin, 50 (7), 124-130.

    Elayyan, Ribhi Mustafa. (1990). The history of the Arabic-Islamic libraries: 7th to 14th centuries. International Library Review, 22, 119-135.

    Harris, Michael. (1973, September 15). The purpose of the American public library: Revisionist interpretation of history. Library Journal, 89-94.

    Jackson, Sidney L. (1974). Libraries and librarianship in the west. NY: McGraw-Hill.

    Lynch, Clifford. (1993). The transformation of scholarly communication and the role of the library in the age of networked information, Serials Librarian, 23 (3-4 ), 5-20.

    Massey. Owen. Library history

    Stevens, Norman D. (1986). The history of information. Advances in Librarianship, 14, 1-48.

    Wiegand, Wayne and Davis, Donald. (Eds.). (1994). Encyclopedia of library history. NY: Greenwood.

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    History of Television

    Barnouw, Erik. (1975). Tube of plenty: the evolution of American television. NY: Oxford University Press.

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