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02611pam a2200361 i 4500 |
001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
control field |
2021050496 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
control field |
DLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20250427180744.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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211116r20222021nyua b 001 0 eng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2021050496 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9781324002543 |
Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
1324002549 |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(Sirsi) i9781324002543 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
Language of cataloging |
eng |
Description conventions |
rda |
Transcribing agency |
DLC |
Modifying agency |
IMmBT |
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NjBwBT |
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
Authentication code |
pcc |
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
Z695.9 |
Item number |
.D86 2022 |
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
025.3 |
Edition number |
23/eng/20211123 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Duncan, Dennis |
Fuller form of name |
(Dennis J. B.), |
Relator term |
author. |
9 (RLIN) |
1034 |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Index, a history of the : |
Remainder of title |
a bookish adventure from medieval manuscripts to the digital age / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Dennis Duncan. |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
First American edition. |
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York, NY : |
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
W.W. Norton & Company, |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2022. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
vii, 343 pages : |
Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
Dimensions |
24 cm |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content type term |
text |
Content type code |
txt |
Source |
rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
Media type term |
unmediated |
Media type code |
n |
Source |
rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
Carrier type term |
volume |
Carrier type code |
nc |
Source |
rdacarrier |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
First published in Great Britain under the title Index, a history of the : a bookish adventure. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-297) and index. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
"Most of us give little thought to the back of the book-it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and-of course-indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart-and we have been for eight hundred years"-- |
Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Indexing |
General subdivision |
History. |
9 (RLIN) |
1035 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Information organization |
9 (RLIN) |
683 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Indexes |
General subdivision |
History. |
9 (RLIN) |
1036 |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
Koha item type |
Book - training |