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Title: | Bibliography as Anthropometry: Dreaming Scientific Order at the fin de siècle |
Author(s): | Csiszar, Alex |
Subject(s): | Bertillon, Alphonse |
Abstract: | The 1890s saw an explosion of ambitious projects to build a massive classification of knowledge that would serve as a basis for universal catalogues of scientific publishing. The largest of these were the rival International Catalogue of Scientific Literature (London) and Répertoire Bibliographique Universel (Brussels). This essay argues that one widely influential but overlooked source of the enthusiasm for classification as a technology of search and retrieval during this period was the emergence of new methods and technologies for classifying and keeping track of people, and in particular, the criminal identification laboratory of Alphonse Bertillon located in Paris. |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Citation Info: | Library Trends 62 (3) Winter 2014: Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part 1: 442-455 |
Genre: | Article |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49316 |
ISSN: | 1559-0682 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2013.0041 |
Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2013 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2014-05-27 2015-12-31 |
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Library Trends 62 (2) Fall 2013: Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part 1
Library Trends 62 (2) Fall 2013: Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part 1. Edited by Alistair Black and Charles van den Heuvel.