Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929

Index

Index Abbot, Ezra, 78, 80, 82, 83, 91, 103, 107, 111, 165, 169 Abbot, John Lovejoy, 71 Access, 4, 28, 31, 45, 108, 112, 128–129 to books, 29–31, 108, 151 directed, 33, 51, 80, 88, 151 public, 82, 103 quick, 15, 127–128 random, 32–33 Address, 30–31, 52, 121, 151 of a book, 29, 50 collection, 117–118 of a house, 27–28, 31 of an index card, 64 numeric, 88 Addressing, 30–32, 156 of books, 40 exactness, 28 of individuals, 28, 58 of operations, 132 postal, 29 Advertising stamps, 122 Algorithm13, 32, 40, 45–46, 70, 91, 120, 155 American Library Association, 91, 100, 166 colonization, 107, 113 founding, 87, 89 Library Journal, 95 second conference, 92 Supply Department, 92 Ansbach, 122 Babbage, Charles, 175 Bach, Wilhelm H., 133, 135 Baker, Nicholson, 182 Banker’s note, 58 Bank note, 7, 58–61, 160 Bankruptcy, intellectual, 66 Baroque rhetoric, 55, 149 Bartsch, Adam, 39–41, 44, 155 Benjamin, Walter, 135, 138 Berend, Eduard, 158 Bertillon, Alphons, 101, 125 Bible, 9, 42, 158, 160 Bibliography, 10, 42, 70, 80 modern, 9–10 national, 45–47 objectives of, 16 universal, 113–114 Blotius, Hugo, 16–17, 21, 35, 44, 148, 153–154 Boerhaave, Herrmann, 153 Book, 9, 52 access to (see Access, to books) bound, 32, 41, 95, 170 censorship, 36, 38, 154 cover page, 151 culture, 132 description of a, 10, 44 208 Index dimensions of a, 137–138 disappearance, 139 efficiency, 136 excerpt, 17, 149 flood (see Stream, of books) vs. index, 5, 54–55, 107, 127–128, 136–138, 169 limits of the, 138 locating a, 30 loose-leaf, 126, 132 loss, 153 as medium, 8, 53, 55, 57, 135–136, 177 printing, 9, 14 production, 35 as storage, 20 as vehicle of civilization, 5, 128, 140 Book flood. See Stream, of books Bookkeeping, 136, 138–140 automated, 126, 139 based on paper slips, 95, 131 law on, 131 Melvil Dewey’s, 90, 94, 166 Bookshelf, 29, 33, 55, 108–109 Borchert, Jürgen, 161 Bound catalog. See Catalog Box. See Card index Bridge, The, 114, 120–121, 124, 126, 135, 140, 172–173 Brown, James Duff, 102 Brunet, Jacques Charles, 72, 162 Bücherei. See Library, public BUGRA, 126–127 Bührer, Karl Wilhelm, 116–117, 119–122, 165, 172–174 Burchard, Gustav, 92 Burchardt, Lothar, 175 Burroughs, William S., 106 Business card, 89–90 Businessman, 6, 126, 133, 177–179 Buzás, Ladislaus, 153 Callimachus, 6, 145 Capital accumulating cultural, 62 culture, 61 flow, 59, 61 representation of, 59–60 Carbon paper, 101, 226 Card, 47, 80 business, 89–90 format, 33 playing, 33, 39, 47, 56, 89, 107, 152–153, 159 post, 92 punch, 6, 104, 111–112, 139, 142 Card catalog, 3, 5, 35, 42, 67, 70, 96, 111–112, 156 appearance, 43, 91, 100, 106 advantages, 78–79, 99, 107, 111 Berlin, 108 for bookkeeping, 96 capsule, 41 first, 4, 38 Harvard, 70 Hottinger’s, 118 hybrid, 75 implementation, 42, 44–45, 47 inventor of the, 102 Josephinian, 31, 35, 37, 41–44, 91 transformation into index, 95 Card index, 1, 5–8, 13, 15–16, 20, 67–68, 83, 111, 127, 138 access to the, 128–129 automated, 120 vs. book, 129, 138, 164 cabinet, 20 capabilities, 108, 127–128, 130 dimensions of the, 137–138 enforcement of, 67–68, 124, 139–140 etymology, 135, 147 fingerprint, 101 functions of, 50 genealogy of, 1, 3, 70, 134, 139, 178 of Hegel, 57, 159 Book (cont.) Index 209 history of, 3, 5, 57, 139–140 hybrid, 13, 164 imagery, 179 of Jean Paul, 54 of J. J. Moser, 53–54 vs. Kartothek, 135 leader, 128 vs. library, 135 literary, 158, 161 machine, 1, 6, 128, 133, 136 as medium, 121, 136 patent protection, 133 protection of word, 133–134 scholarly, 13, 50, 67, 139 standardized, 53 system, 128–129 as vehicle of civilization, 128, 140 Card register. See Card index Case. See Card index Catalog, 16, 31, 38, 50, 87 access to, 31, 111 (see also Access) author, 21 basic, 44–45, 156 card (see Index card) cutting up of, 163 enforcement of, 32, 52, 151 etymology of, 157 by Ezra Abbot, 82, 169 by Franz Rautenstrauch, 44, 156 by Gottfried van Swieten, 34–35 by G. W. Leibniz, 149–150 Harvard College Library, 70–75, 77–79, 82–83 by Hugo Blotius, 16 library, 17...