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"Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiqui...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Krajewski, Markus, 1972- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Krapp, Peter (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Information organization.
Catalog cards.
Card catalogs.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > Cataloging & Classification.
Organisation de l'information > Histoire.
Catalogues sur fiches > Histoire.
Fiches de catalogue > Histoire.
Information organization > History.
Card catalogs > History.
Catalog cards > History.
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From library guides to the bureaucratic era:an introduction
  • Temporary indexing
  • Around 1800. The first card index?
  • Thinking in boxes
  • American arrival
  • Around 1900. Institutional technology transfer
  • Transatlantic technology transfer
  • Paper slip economy.

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