Ann M. Blair.
Too Much to Know: managing scholarly information before the Modern Age.
Yale University Press. 2010
The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often
accompanied by a distressing sense of “information overload,”
yet this experience is not unique to modem times.
In fact, says Ann M. Blair, long before the modern era
scholars complained of the overabundance of books
and developed techniques for selecting, sorting, and
storing information on a large scale.
This intriguing book examines information management in premodern contexts
with a special focus on the impact of printing in Europe
in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.