@shivkumarClayTabletsWeb2013
Title: [@shivkumarClayTabletsWeb2013] date: 2023-02-10 type: reference project: Memex1
tags:: Memex1, Source, Classification, Catalogue, Agency, Accessibility
Reference¶
Kumar, Shiv. 2013. "From Clay Tablets to Web: Journey of Library Catalogue" DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology 33.1: 45-54. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.33.1.3729.
Summary & Key Take Aways¶
Kumar's article explores the act of classifying and cataloguing from as early as 4000BCE to today's digital libraries. He defines classification as the systematic arrangement of documents (on shelfs), and the catalogue as the organization and identification of those documents to locate them. These two terms are referenced through a survey of history's medium of knowledge such as clay tablets, and the Alexandria Library. In the 14th century, the catalogue became an authoritative power of the church to control and organize information. It was only after World War One and World War Two that the need for coordinated catalogues. The imminent computerization of the catalogue faciliated the transmission of knowledge even further with online access to documents from anywhere in the world. The OPAC and how it could be use, Online Public Access Catalog, is carefully explained by the author, highlighting how information and searches could be manipulated, and how documents could interlink between each other, creating a interconnected network of information.